Michaele Salahi
“People have a hard time saying no to me, and that’s just been my blessing.“
Michaele Salahi (née Michelle Ann “Missy” Holt) (born October 1, 1965) is an American self-proclaimed model and socialite. The Oakton, Virginia native is a very active member of theWashington, D.C. social scene.
She and her husband, Tareq, are founders of America’s Polo Cup, which had become one of the largest and most high profile polo events in the U.S. They have also been the alleged owners and residents of the Oasis Winery near Hume, Virginia.[8][9] (Both the Oasis Winery and America’s Polo Cup, Inc. filed for Chapter 7 protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in February 2009[10] and September 2010,[11] respectively.) In 2009, she claimed to be a former Washington Redskins cheerleader; however, the Washington Post reported that this was untrue.[12]
Personal life
Michaele is the daughter of Howard A. Holt Jr. & Rosemary (née O’Malley) of Fairfax, Virginia; her siblings are named Debbie, Howard III, and Glen. She attended, but did not graduate from, King’s College.
Michaele was a sales girl and make-up artist at Nordstrom.[9][13][14][15] She met Tareq in 2000 at a party thrown by McLean, Virginia, real estate broker N. Casey Margenau and his wife Molly.
Michaele married Tareq in 2003 in a ceremony at Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington D.C. The guest list included 1,836 guests,including Supreme Court JusticeAnthony Kennedy and former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Margaret Heckler. The wedding, originally scheduled for October 2002, was postponed numerous times, prompting Kennedy to quip that he needed to issue “subpoenas” to the bride and groom.
In September 2010, it was claimed in an interview with Fox News Channel that Michaele was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis seventeen years ago. According to interview transcripts, this statement was made by Diane Diamond, the tabloid journalist who authored the couple’s 2010 book, rather than Michaele herself, who seemed too distraught to speak.[18] Also in September, it was reported that Michaele would pose for Playboy Magazine in a full frontal shoot.[19] Sources claim that Salahi later denied the claim. On the philanthropic front, Michaele claims to be an advocate and fundraiser for MS and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
Michaele is also known as one of the “White House Crashers” as she and her husband showed up at the White House without invitations and greeted President Barack Obama on November 24, 2009, in the receiving line for 400 invited guests. Three days later, the United States Secret Service publicly stated the Salahi couple had not been invited to the event and, although they went through magnetometers and other levels of screening, should have been prohibited from the event altogether. Bravo producers said they had been filming the Salahis before the dinner, but were told by the couple that they were invited. Both Salahis claim no wrongdoing but pleaded the Fifth Amendment and refused to testify to their story during the subsequent investigation
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Michaele is my favorite of the Real Housewives !
The only one my girlfriends and I could relate to on the DC show.
She has class and grace.
Robyn: Appreciate you commenting… have you actually WATCHED the RHODC??? The Salamis are lying, thieving scammer, con artists… SH
The Salahi’s are the complete definition of classless. Horrible, disgusting, self absorbed liars. Their ridiculous behavior was on television for all to see and yet they believe they’re celebrities! If they are reading this, and I trully hope they are, they need to realize the 15 minutes are up. That should have sunk in when the last event they were hired to do was the opening of a BOWLING ALLEY!!!!
KS: Well said! Thanks for commenting. They are both sociopaths…SH
too funny. seems like we are still watching the show by reading this.
the other wives were so jealous of her on that show.
Michaele continue to shine and good thing you are away from them.
Debbie: Are you serious? They both should be in jail. Everyone despised them, no one was jealous. Messy was wishing they would be jealous.
So Debbie, By reading her Bio, you feel like you are watching the show? How did you like the part when they were in front of congress…pleading the fifth? Yes, I’ll remember that part. To bad she didn’t make it on to Celebrity Rehab. You would’ve been able to see more of her. Dr. Drew hasn’t found a name for her “addiction.” It’s called. “I want to be on TV so bad, I’ll fake an illness.” Even he didn’t buy her B.S. about her M.S.
Mycat-I love how you leave hints to where the good comments are hiding!
The only thing that I liked about these two con-artists is that they didn’t have any children to embarass on television.
The fact that they are know-as dead-beats/non-payers-of-bills/debts, and famewhores, bothers me in that “A”-there are vicims of their deceptions, and “B”-there are financial victims.
The fact that it appears that they mainly prey-on already wealthy targets, lessens the damage there in my opinion. (especially compared-to other Real Housewives).
Impersonating a disease?-well, again, unless she is cheating the cause, or people out of anything, almost a victimless crime.
Of course lying, propaganda, deception….in criminal & non-criminal instances, is a pretty screwed-up thing to do no matter what the reason-but overall, personally I don’t see a lot of damage being done , (except to themselves) by these two performance artists.
That being said, personlly I don’t like liars and they seem to spend a lot of their time trying to “prove” that they didn’t lie.
(Cheerleader Alumni?????)
They remind me of that old saying that “it takes twenty lies to back-up one”!
Meaning of course that if you tell one lie, you’ll have to tell more & more to try and prove that the first lie was true.
Maybe there should be a reality show dedicated to liars?
Kind-of like Celebrity Rehab or any recycled reality performer show where big fat liars have one chance to redeem themselves for being a compulsive pathological liar?
And who has the audacity to lie about a serious disease like M.S.?
She really is the epitome of a classless famewhore!
I don’t get the outrage about this?
Aside from possibly spreading medical mis-information, if they are not stealing money intended for MS, and the lying of course, who gets hurt?
-Not meaning you personally GL! I mean the general outrage.
Personally I find the MS controversy interesting, but I have seen comments elsewhere where people are furious.
I guess if I had the ailment, I wouldn’t be too happy having to explain to people why I can’t do all the stuff that she can do?
No offense taken, HWH!!
I understand your point. Although she may not have any direct victims by lying about having a disease, it makes me mad that she is using it for attention when there is no proof. It just gets under my skin knowing that there are real people suffering (including my Aunt) out there and she is just an attention whore trying to use it to her advantage.
HWH. There are so many of them, they’d have to hold auditions. KooKooKelly, would be the forerunner, for lying that Bravo made her go on Ramona’s trip.
HWH, The only outrage is that someone actually admits to liking the Salami’s. That rehab stunt was a joke! And for that pig of a husband to throw a glass of wine in a woman’s face…Speaks Volumns!