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Days after being voted the most hated housewife in Bravo housewives history, it seems Camille Grammer will soon have 50 million reasons to laugh all the way to the bank.
According to a new TMZ report, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star will end up walking away with more than $50 million in her divorce settlement with husband Kelsey Grammer.
See Camille and Kelsey never signed a prenup, meaning all of Kelsey’s earnings during the marriage are divided 50/50. Sources connected with the divorce tell TMZ that the couple accumulated a fortune in excess of $100,000,000 during their 13 years of marriage.
Most of that fortune was invested in real estate as the Grammers have homes in the Holmby Hills area of L.A., Malibu, Hawaii, the Hamptons, New York City and Colorado. According to a 2007 report by Luxist.com, Kelsey often buys and sells quickly his real estate purchases. The site adds that Kelsey put his Bridgehampton, New York mansion on the market for $16.1 million in 2007 after purchasing it for $8.517 million just a year earlier.
The story gets even better as “sources” tell TMZ that Kelsey was strapped for cash when he married Camille, who is apparently savvy in the business department and taught him a thing or two along the way. “They made a lot of smart decisions. They were really a good team,” says Camille a source close to the couple’s finances.
Camille and Kelsey are reportedly in the process of working out a financial settlement, which is being complicated by the fact that some of the properties, like the one in Hawaii, are in the toilet due to the economy. As reported yesterday, Kelsey is looking to hurry up the divorce process so that he can marry his fiance in January.
And to think just 14 years ago, Camille Donatacci was just an unknown up and coming soft-core porn star. She sure has come a long way. $50 million should definitely be able to afford her a new set of crazy-er “friends.”
TELL US – FOR $50 MILLION CASH, WOULD YOU BEFRIEND CAMILLE?
Eff this betch. I don’t feel sorry for her at all.
She’s a stupid head, but shame on Kelsey and all other rich, vapid men who fall into this bimbo black hole. This is what happens, guys!!
i dont blame kelsey for finding somebody else, because i dont think there was a real marriage in place anyways. you can tell from the way camille acts towards other men, especially nick, that she was not emotionally committed to kelsey. and vice versa with kelsey to her. their marriage was long gone way before this past summer.
i hope she doesnt get it all in cash, but most of it in property and other non-liquid assets like a stake in the production co. good luck on the taxes, maintenance, and trying to offload all those houses she boasted about.
also, i hope they get joint custody of the kids or at least major visitation time with kelsey. though kayte is the ‘other woman’ (and remember that’s what camille was too when she first met him), i think she’ll be a sympathetic stepmother.
i dont give camielle much or most of the credit with kelsey’s sobriety. that is solely dependent on kelsey’s choices, not camille’s. also, i dont see her as a person who will listen to and focus on others to any real degree. she’s not a very empathetic person. i would think she would feel bored and bothered by any heart-to-heart talk from kelsey. i’m almost sure that kelsey had other people on his call list who were his REAL partners in his journey to sobriety.
i cant think of camille as a savvy business woman who helped build his fortune. i seriously doubt she has the emotional maturity to be a professional and committed businesswoman like some of the other ladies one sees on the rho- shows. her temperament reminds me more of tamra, teresa, kelly, jill, michaela, ashley, and danielle rather than of bethenny, lisa, adrienne, vicki, and jeana.
if she were really that smart, then she’d know to have a filter on what she says and does on national tv instead of reacting on negative emotional instinct at the drop of a hat.
Thanks for responding again. I think I see where you are coming from now, although we are going to have to agree to disagree about how successfully you communicated that your comments were meant in jest.
About criticizing other people’s opinions of Camille and how much money she deserves while happily voicing my own opinion, however … No, that is not really what I did. I challenged a few of the ideas behind those opinions more than the opinions themselves. Specifically, I took issue with the suggestion that Camille didn’t deserve the 50 million because she did nothing for her husband except satisfy his sexual urges, an idea I find to be a simplistic and naive characterization of marriage, as well as being entirely unknowable by the posting public and nothing more than furtherance of the crude stereotype of women only being valuable as sex objects. And I found the idea that because she once was involved in some soft-core porn it necessarily means she was lacking business savvy, an idea I feel is nothing more than an unjustified prejudice toward overtly sexual women expressed by labeling them as stupid. Both these ideas seemed to have little to support them and I felt compelled to express my doubt about their validity.
Oh man I’m going to get torn apart for this one but…
I don’t think Bravo is portraying Camille in a worse light then she presented herself, but I’m sure they had been having marital problems for a while, then her husband leaves for a year, and I don’t doubt she deep down knew he was cheating on her. I don’t think her behavior backstage at his show was clueless, but perhaps her way of saving face for the cameras. I think she probably has always had some selfish tendencies, and then adding on being in a really bad place emotionally and in front of cameras for the first time, I think its possible that the year the cameras documented her might not be the best representation of her as a whole throughout her life…. Is it possible? Who knows only time will tell.
If Mauricio was the brains behind their real estae – why isn’t he wealthy? He has money but isnt really wealthy. If he was that smart he would be making the money for himself – not other people – just saying.
I like Camille
Yey 4 her!! You go girl!!! Lets not 4get she married Kelsey when he was broke .. Hence no prenup? Congrats Camille! No hating just congratulating! You go woman!!!
Like I have said before Camille definitely has issues. HOWEVER the was Kelsey went about all this was cowardly. HE is a drunk. He maybe sober but I know for a fact( having lived this) once a drunk always a drunk.Living with an addicted person is horrible. They have 2 children she stayed with him 13 years good or bad she is entitled to what ever she can get. His treatment of her was and is disgraceful
Once again all the blood ran from the mans head down. This is Hollywood after all and nothing lasts out there it seems to last forever.. So what if she got that much money. They are different from ordinary people I think the rich last lost track of the value of life or so it seem to me
Good for u camille! U deserve every single penny and more.
@56hanky
……what do you consider wealthy? Because whenever I see Kyle and Mauricio they do not look poor or hurting for money. Also, I believe they live in Bel Air…which is a nice (a REALLY NICE) part of Los Angeles.
OMG is she going to be able to afford the 4 nannies, house manager, friends on that money? I mean after all, she is all about her kids.
so they’re not wealthy unless they’re the tacky-flinging cash in the air wealthy? good to know.. so i assume that theresa, tamara, simon, lynn and the other bling-gone-craptastic ladies are wealthy flinging around their (nonexistent) cash? and what is wrong w/ working for other people? maybe he does that horribly irresponsible thing called save, live within their (bigger than mine) means, invest wisely and other bits of stupid advice that the pros give us? man.. my cousin whose vice prez for his company but lives in malibu must be POOR because he works for someone else!!!!!
love camille, go girl you deserve it ! And more
Yep! I’d befriend Camille in a hearbeat.
Im not a huge camielle fan, but to say to say in the article that she is the most hated housewife in RH history is a little premature… What I mean is Jill Zarin was well received her first season and now is IMO disgusting… its camielle’s 1st season, so i guess I think the history title is ridiculous
@55 helloisitme
I agree. I personally have gone through a time in my life where I’m not proud of things I did or said. I apologized to alot of people. But what I was going through, I got through, and am a much healthier, happier person. I can only hope as much for Camille. I wish her the best.
@ RT50, I agree with much of your assessment of Camille’s contribution to the investments and holdings of the Grammers wealth. In my opinion, if Camille had been very instrumental and vital to the company holdings, I hope that Bravo would have highlighted that contribution to the business as they did with Adrienne and Lisa. I get the feeling from reading the Bravo producer blogs that they were/are sympathetic to Camille’s situation, so I surmise from their statements that they surely would have included some footage of her business savvy and organizational skills other than just giving orders to her housing staff. They have certainly even throughout this and other housewife series, shown the business side of other,(not all) housewives business attributes. For some, not specifically Camille, I still wonder where the “money” comes from, as it is not always that transparent. Having said that, I don’t see Camille filing bankruptcy any time in the near future as some of the other Bravolites.
Anyone see the Lifestyle Magazine giving Camille “America’s Most Hated Housewife”????
http://tvtime101.com/2010/12/28/now-theres-a-camille-grammer-magazine-cover-for-everyone/#more-3196
Sorry, Teresa, Michaele, and Jill still get my vote for Most Hated….
@kakashka
but she already has a charity! She helps out all of her friends in need by giving them cars, letting them use her vacant houses and revealing her body to horny husbands.
IMO the $50 mil figure is probably exagerated just a tad – it depends on how the lawyers value the real estate – 6 homes may have been worth $100 mil or so a few years ago (but that seems high, too), now they’ve probably lost a great deal of their value. If KG liquidated everything and gave her 1/2 of the proceeds, that would probably net her a great deal less than $50 mil. He should take the kids (to her they’re just insurance policies anyway), and let her go back to stripping/porn
I am starting to think as others have posted that they had agreed the marriage was over before he went to NY. Think her being on the show was part of the deal & she had no intention of going to NY. Think she thought I will be evil to pump up my celebrity & then folks will love me when we stage the “I’m leaving you” bit. No way would she have lived in that small apartment, there was no room for the nannies. And since she takes responsibility for his sobriety & being a goldigger there is no way she would have left him alone in NY knowing other goldiggers would love to get their hands in his …. pockets. And perhaps why she went to Hawaii for spring break versus taking the children to see their father. It would explain her having no idea he had a girlfriend & the akwardness between the 2 with her acting like nothing was wrong. And she sure did file for divorce quick.
Also, the apartment had “bachelor pad” written all over it.
Kelsey is a good actor, but sounds like a sap in real life.
If it wasn’t Camille it would be some other bimboette getting Kelsey’s millions so we would be bitching about whoever it was. No prenup she gets 50%.
@61 & 63 – If you read my post – it said they have money but I wouldn’t consider them wealthy – and I don’t. It was implied he made all the smart real estate decisions for Camille and her husband thus making them a fortune….so if thats the case wouldn’t he be doing that for himself?
Dear Camille,
Please tuck your boobs back into that dress. No one wants to see that crap.
Sincerely yours,
SweetCakes
FYI – I might have mentioned on another post the following values (liquid or otherwise) of the RHBH (a la Celebrity Net Worth) -
Kim & Kyle Richards – $20 M each
Taylor – I believe was $10 M
Lisa V. – $165 M
& last but not least the richest (and probably the brightest & most down to earth)
Adrienne $300 M
Alas, Kelsey is “only” worth $120 M – no mention of liquid assets or not -
When you live that high on the hog, no amount of money is enough.
Uhhh boy!! I do apologize, in advance, for the dissertation. Will post in 2 parts so your eyes don’t cross! But, I have to respond @17What a Snotty Article! (Camille’s attorney)
Part I
Ma’an!! I’m more than a little confused by some of the comments here today. Let’s see, we are discussing a woman who whined about the task of managing “the managers” between two of her homes, pending a temporary shift of her family from one house to the another, yes? The same woman, who sat dawdling and confused, lamenting the fact that “it” was so much easier when
Kelsey was there to help, b/c “it” was sooo very DIFFICULT to prevail upon one employee to make a call to another, and ask them to turn on the hot tub? This is the person presumed to be the BRAINS behind an immensely talented, Emmy-winning actor and his production company? Are you kidding me?!?!?!?!?
Huhhh…very confused, too, as to how someone could assume that She is single-handedly responsible for accumulating “their” fortune via real estate investing alone. People, help me out here! Has anyone else detected that much business acumen lurking behind all those coy, “but, ummmms”, during her Confession Cams!?!?
Amassing a 100-million dollar fortune requires a little cleverness somewhere. To translate this figure into 13 years of successful real estate investing means that there must have been a helluva lot of skill – and real work – involved. Doable, I suppose, for the prescient few who make a primary career of it; the amateur majority, however, wound up losing their shirts trying. So, for me, it’s rather counterintuitive to imagine that someone alleged to be so savvy would still be sitting on holdings, that I will grant you, are each underwater, as we speak. If She was such the sage business person and “the brains behind” this debacle, She should have done her research and sold each and every one of their investment properties before the market collapsed. It was, indeed, a knowable fact: markets, historically, run in cycles – what goes up, must come down. Instead, between the lot of them, they’re looking at a potential, cumulative loss of tens of millions of dollars, with no forseeable resurrection of said loss for maybe decades! Someone’s business advisor isn’t looking very savvy to me, but I doubt that it’s Not Kelsey’s Wife. This would be plenty of
reason for me to fire Mauricio, not b/c his wife didn’t kiss up to NKW.
Part II
And where do you suppose this money came from, in the first place, to invest in these properties? Brainiac Camille?!?!?!? I hardly think so (not unless she wants to cop to Brunei). Kelsey’s resume is pretty astonishing despite substance abuse issus and a couple of heart attacks. At one point, during Frasier, he was the highest paid actor in TV history ($1.6 mil/episode), then he
Executive Produced the show. Doesn’t that mean he got front-end and back-end $$? This man has residuals coming in from all over the place, with several of his shows STILL running in syndication. That is money out the ying-yang, just ask Seinfeld.
Kelsey has proven himself a money-making machine. Camille has proven she knows a good thing when she sees it. While I certainly don’t begrudge her the settlement she’s obtaining by default, I do begrudge the notion that she’s the brains behind any damn thing. Camille is little more than a very lucky, posturing leech!
Gheez, on the face of it, this bimbo can’t even make a proper friend. Aside from all of the hired-help-friends, Kelsey’s the one who spotted Allison Dubois, during auditions for another show, before hiring her to consult on Medium. Camille simply glommed onto all-things-Kelsey, yet when called upon to produce on her own, she wouldn’t even bear her own children (insecure much? protecting your only assets?).
Now, I ask you, is this woman competent at anything?!?!? Dang, I almost feel sorry for her. What is a Leech to do? Better find a new Host posthaste!
The bigger question for me is did she, in fact, engineer the demise of that marriage and not Kelsey, as purported by the media. Because, if true, how did she hope to sustain that union w/o having sex with him for over a year? How did she mean to hold up her end w/o plying her one, real trade? That’s what I wanna know.
Oh, and no, not on Kelsey’s payroll…I wish!!
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant.jsp?spid=351776&apid=0
http://www.hollywood.com/news/Frasier_deal_makes_Grammer_TVs_highest_paid_actor/470001
Why do you address your post to me, Wykkyd? You are just ranting about Camille being a bad person. I never actually disputed that. I mainly posted about what I thought were some sexist things being said here, including the assertion that Camille could not possibly be competent in business because she once did soft core porn. You make the same claim about her business acumen based on an even flimsier theory, saying that because she is mean to people on some reality show she is therefore incapable of making a wise business decision. I simply find your comment to dumb to take seriously, sorry. I wouldn’t respond at all but you did direct your remarks at me, sorry.
You are just making more ridiculously sexist comments by going on about how Kelsey earned all the money, Camille is just a golddigger/hooker who didn’t even put out for her old man or squeeze out his babies blah blah blah. That is all women are good for, right? Ugh. Whatever. It is obvious you just hate her and fine, feel whatever you want. I’m just glad the judge won’t engage
similar critiques of her performance on the Real Housewives show any more than he or she will care that Camille was once topless in some crummy movie. It’s irrelevant.
For the record I am not Camille’s attorney. I am not even a “fan.” And you need not worry about anyone thinking you are on Kelsey Grammer’s payroll. No doubt Mr. Grammer can find far more articulate people than you to do his posting for him.
82Poster # 17: Sorry…I didn’t realize that in order to blog we had to trade insults with each other – not my purpose for being here. I am happy that you read the post, although, I apologize that my points weren’t clear. I will try and distill my reasoning to 2 main issues.
Camille has documented two things, with regard to her business acumen:
1) that she has used her body to earn a living, and
2) she cannot accomplish even rudimentary tasks w/o the aid of LOTS of support (her representation, not my assumption).
This is a woman who couldn’t manage a vacation, yet you would have us believe that she is capable of running a multi-million dollar corporation? It is illogical. Give us evidence, not insults.
You led off your post by flippantly suggesting I am Camille’s lawyer, so I would say you fired the first salvo in this little war of words, Friend. Word of advice: don’t dish it out if you can’t take it.
I feel no need to offer evidence for claims I never made about Camille being a financial genius or running a multi-million dollar corporation. I merely suggested someone in the couple made some wise real estate decisions and it sure doesn’t look like it was Kelsey, who was too foolish to even sign a pre-nup. You think the Camille we see on the show can’t possibly be responsible because she is incapable of using her brain, and I get that. The thing is, I would not put that much stock in what we see on the show when it comes to Camille’s calculated attempts to show herself as fragile and in need of help with everything domestic. All these women are playing characters, don’t forget that. They are trying to create images for themselves. I think Camille probably believes it makes her look soft and delicate to pretend she is so helpless and in need of so much help. She wants the world to see her as some kind of hothouse flower when in reality the girl is 99% weed – tough and aggressive. I don’t think she has succeeded, though, because she can’t conceal enough of her true nature in her interactions with the other women. But in her talking heads she gives it all she’s got, trying to look vulnerable and incapable and sympathetic. I don’t buy it for a minute. The real Camille is the nasty Camille who hosts deadly dinner parties and sits back and watches her stooges tear into her enemies on her behalf … and that is the Camille who I think made some shrewd deals. Not the one who tries to pretend she can’t manage a vacation. I don’t think that Camille really exists.
LOL…so, we’re “friends” now?!?!?
I’m not sure why you are presuming that they have amassed their fortune from real estate investing. They have certainly plowed a lot of it into real estate, but do you really believe that whomever we’re talking about is looking real smart right about now, having held on to all of that property? I’m arguing that someone seriously took their eye off the ball by not advising them to sell-sell-sell during the market’s peak. Especially now that they have to liquidate, for the divorce. They’re about to watch the economy of a small country go down the drain.
And, BTW…thank you, for the advice, but do not think me thin-skinned, I am not. I can “dish” with the best of them, merely choosing not to, in a public forum. I’m all for an impassioned discussion so, thank you, you’ve just given one of the best I’ve seen thus far, and me something else to consider. I have always seen Camille as calculating, but if she is, as you are suggesting, simply playing a role, then she is even more diabolical than I imagined. I am unaccustomed to seeing women intentionally “pretending” to be airheads, quite the opposite. If you are, you are, but you don’t go around manipulating people for personal gain. Next time, I’ll be watching with a different set of eyes, searching for signs of intelligence.
Go Camille!!! I can understand if this was Kelsey’s first marriage, no prenup…but the idiot didn’t learN. Camille, good luck with the mula and don’t spend it all in one month… AND don’t judge people (Faye Resnik) for being in playboy…you were a PAID ESCORT!!!
I like Camille also, I don’t like Kyle.