Unearthed Bobby Berk Tweet Reveals Which ‘Real Housewives’ Star Allegedly Stole From His Store

The biggest mystery of 2020 has officially been solved and I, for one, will sleep a lot easier at night now that the thief has been identified.

Over the weekend, Queer Eye design guru Bobby Berk accused a Real Housewives of New York star of knocking off his store a few years back.

The interior designer spoke about the incident in an interview with Jenny McCarthy, saying:

“Celebrities can be a pain in the ass sometimes. A lot of times there can be some that expect everything for free.”

Berk has branches of his Bobby Berk Home store in SoHo and Manhattan, and he didn’t say when the incident took place, but it was before he was on Queer Eye. He explained:

“I had a New York Housewife come into my store years ago in New York, and [she] was like, ‘Oh, I’m buying this new place.’ Turns out, of course, she wasn’t buying it. She didn’t even own the last one she had on the show that she said she owned,” he said. “She’s like, ‘I want you to come in and design it all. I’m gonna put you on the show.’ And I wasn’t on TV yet. I still kind of liked the Housewives, so I was like, ‘Oh, OK, but just so you know, I’m not doing it for free. I don’t need to do it for free. I don’t necessarily know if the Housewives is really the exposure I want anyways, so I’ll do it for you at cost.’ And she’s like, ‘OK, OK, that works.’”

Berk claimed that the woman’s husband called him a short time later to try and pressure him into working for free, but he refused and instead turned down the job altogether.

This did not deter the mystery housewife, and Bobby Berk went on to say:

“She came into my store the next week when I wasn’t there and told my staff that I had said she could take anything out of the store that she wanted to design her house for the shoot and here was her credit card and ‘If I don’t bring anything back, if I like something, you can just charge the credit card.‘”

He said that the mystery housewife “cleaned the store out”, and that he didn’t discover it until months later when he was doing inventory and noticed many items missing.

When he asked the staff what had happened, they said they had been calling the housewife for months and not getting a response, and that her card was declined when they attempted to charge it.

“They knew they had fucked up,” he said. “They knew they had been scammed.”

Bobby says that he later confronted the housewife, who threatened to take the matter to court rather than pay up. Based on this experience, the designer is now “picky” about who he chooses to work with.

The stylist refused to name the housewife, leading to tons of speculation over who it was, with many believing it to be Ramona Singer for reasons that will be very clear to anyone who has ever watched RHONY.

But an unearthed tweet from 2014 may have revealed the identity of the housewife:

Aviva Dresher appeared in one season of the show and is best known for that iconic moment where she threw her prosthetic leg across the table.

Observe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIsz1PAjZho

But now I guess she’ll always be known as that housewife who knocked off one of the Fab Five.

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