Shah said that her television persona, including her “Shah-mazing” tagline, were all Bravo’s doing. ![]() Hearing the victims’ accounts, Chaudhry said, made Shah realize the massive amount of fraud and damage she had done. Shah and her attorney Priya Chaudhry spoke about Shah’s remorse, saying that she’s had a change of heart. Sobelman stated that there were “thousands” of victims just like the ones she mocked. Authorities say, and Shah admitted, that she used telemarketing to target and defraud unwitting strangers, many of whom were older and living off their savings.ĭuring the sentencing, Assistant US Attorney Robert Sobelman spoke about how Shah showed no remorse about defrauding her victims, pointing out one case in which Shah reportedly mocked an 80-year-old victim to her fellow defendants. And with that, Bravo had a delirious first season hit on its hands.īut the charges Shah faces aren’t as frivolous as the petty fights on a Bravo television show. In their season-long spat, Cosby said that Shah smelled like a hospital. She rose to fame by flaunting her money on television and starting fights with her fellow cast members, in particular by calling ex-Housewife Mary Cosby a “grandpa fucker” (Cosby married her step-grandfather and has a child by him). Shah will have to surrender herself to prison on February 17, 2023, and will be subject to five years of supervised release after serving her sentence.īefore she admitted to being a wire fraudster, Shah had made a name for herself on Bravo’s Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. Shah’s sentencing caps what has been an almost two-year saga, which began with an early 2021 arrest. Shah has agreed to forfeit $6.5 million and pay up to $9.5 million in restitution to the victims.On Friday, Real Housewife of Salt Lake City Jen Shah was sentenced by a federal judge to 78 months, or six and half years, in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. She asked to serve her sentence at the federal prison in Bryan, Texas. Shah submitted 30 letters of support from family and friends – none came from her current cast members who she had volatile relationships with over the two seasons. “Just as Jen Shah has never been a ‘housewife,’ little else is real about her persona and caricature as portrayed by the editors of RHOSLC,” her attorneys say. Shah’s attorneys asked the judge to ignore her portrayal on the show, where her tagline for promos is, “the only thing I’m guilty of is being Shah-mazing.” Shah was arrested last year while Bravo was filming the second season of the reality TV series, with episodes of the show featuring Shah and her castmates speculating – and sparring – over her culpability. ![]() Prosecutors have said that since 2012, Shah and others sold so-called “business services” to the alleged victims, including website design services to some elderly individuals who didn’t own computers. ![]() Shah never had direct contact with the victims, her lawyers say, although prosecutors alleged that she came up with leads to target for the scheme. In court documents on Shah’s behalf during the sentencing process, her attorneys claim she wasn’t a “kingpin” of the telemarketing scheme and that her sentence should be lower than some of the other co-conspirators. Jen Shah, 'Real Housewives of Salt Lake City' cast member, must forfeit designer and counterfeit handbags and jewelry, judge rules THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF SALT LAKE CITY - Pictured: Jen Shah - (Photo by: Randy Shropshire/Bravo) Randy Shropshire/Bravo
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