publication date: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 (part of Spring 2017)

category: Television

clue: Reality made this Jersey wife a star. Fraud made her a federal inmate.

explanation: Giudice stars in The Real Housewives of New Jersey. In 2015, she served eleven months in a federal penitentiary for committing several forms of fraud to finance her lifestyle. more…

intended difficulty: medium

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Richard Slominsky, Justin Woods, Aaron Shurtleff, and Jesse King


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