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Gretchen Rossi and Slade Smiley Are Having A Really Bad Day

One minute you’re strategic business alliance/true luv 4 eva Gretchen Rossi and 20091019_zaf_mg2_981.jpgSlade Smiley hot and posing for “candid” photos, the next all your business is up on the pages of internet tabloids Radar Online and TMZ. Let’s dig in!

First, remember Gretchen’s restraining order against Jay Photoglou? The one Bravo requested to film, was denied and then she didn’t show up? Well, Jay wasn’t too happy about it and filed to recoup attorney’s fees. It was just announced that the judge ruled in his favor. If you don’t believe it, Radar has the court papers. 20 grand should be pocket change for a lady who got a 2.5 million dollar life insurance pay-out earlier this year, but I have a feeling this may not be the last we hear of this lawsuit.

Second, Slade Smiley was arrested earlier this year for failing to pay child support. TMZ got their hands on a letter dated 10/8/2009 detailing exactly how much he owes: almost $80,000! Don’t forget this is for his 9-year-old son Grayson who has brain cancer. Per TMZ, Slade has filed a request to get the balance lowered since he doesn’t have a job. Apparently being Gretchen’s  plus-one doesn’t pay that well.

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  1. kel

    K A R M A

  2. kat

    I hear ya kel!!!!!!!!! LOL Now we know why he is the golddigger. She better watch her $$$$ or she will be out 80k. Why is he not working? Hope his ex takes him for all she can get out of Gretchy.

  3. Michael C.

    $20k is a whole ‘nother cup size! Whose gonna pay to pump up “the girls” when her face starts sliding off from too much surgery?! Think of the tragedy…

  4. kel

    @MichaelC. Remember, no surgery for her, she’s Gretchen from the Gretchen Project

  5. kari

    I love gretchen but I can’t stomach slade. Instead of setting up photo ops he should be with his sick kid. Shitty parent

  6. kel

    Wasn’t Gretchen an advocate and nominated for Woman of the Year for some cancer organization? Way to represent G!!

  7. Anna

    Slade has no excuse for not having a job. He can stop frolicking about with Gretchen and work SOMEWHERE. Maybe he needs to stomach his pride and work somewhere less desirable, but he chose to have a child and now he needs to step up. Fighting with the mother of the child is no excuse for not paying.

    I find this disgusting.

  8. kat

    Maybe she has a wandering eye and he has to keep his on her. I give it 6 more months.

  9. kel

    @kat I was thinking the same thing. Knowing her history, I’m sure he realizes it’s just a matter of time, and that meal ticket is just too valuable to take any chances!

  10. mzchristine

    Jo dodged a bullet. Slade is scum, he shouldn’t have any excuse to not having paid that much child support. He needs to apply at home depot instead of prowling 20 yr old girls.

  11. IHeartBRAVO

    so…that explains why he can’t buy a razor or shampoo.

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  13. MJMayer

    OMG – Gretchen and Slade…Here are the poster couple of Scum. IMHO, they deserve each other. I hope he takes her for a bunch. Then to recoup her $$
    Slade can be her manager and she will start appearing in all kinds of skin
    publications,i.e. Penthouse, Playboy etc., etc. Here is a match made in “Hell”. Lets just sit back and watch them emplode! I can’t wait to watch them start blaming each other for their misfortune. Only time will tell.
    As another poster predicted 6 month, I think it might last longer…like till her $$ runs out!

  14. Stacey Jones

    Correct me if I’m wrong, wasn’t Slade pretty well to do in the first series when he dated Jo? I mean he had a beautiful home, collected weird costumes and bought Jo a benz. So I think whatever he did for a living then he should look back into. That’s sickening to know he’s abandoned his child in his time of need.

  15. DUH

    Gretchen’s bad day is about to get worse after releasing that TV Guide video.

    “I have just been told,

    within 72 hours
    we will be posting something huge…
    something we have all been waiting for!!”

    http://www.whatsleftofmyhead.com

  16. kel

    @DUH- It looks like that site is down right now but I saw that too. LOL

  17. Queenie

    I find it very odd that Gretchen, the poor grieving wanna-be widow, has her tongue in every man’s mouth except for her “knight in shining armour’s” mouth last season. Now, she has her body parts plastered all over every man’s bodies and finds it okay to give more then a “peck” on the lips. She is such a user. Bravo needs to take her off the air. She has cashed in on using old men. Beware, rich old men. Grethchen is a compulsive liar just waiting to cash in. Bet if you are old, you won’t get a lap dance on air like Slade, and all the other young men the web has her grinding up against. Kick her off and let her go strut her stuff at the Bunny Ranch. Ugh!! Karma will come back to haunt her one day. Probably, the day will come when she has to explain all her nasty pictures to her future children.

  18. Julie

    I Beleive thatis called “DEAD BEAT DAD!!!”

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