The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills‘ Sutton Stracke was gobsmacked when her ex-husband asked for an annulment in 2025. After all, she and Christian Stracke had already been divorced for the better part of a decade.
When he told her he wanted to annul their marriage in the Catholic Church, “I didn’t get it,” she shared. “I became Catholic to get married … and raised my children Catholic. So this one hurt … [It changed my view] of where I am in the church.”
“I’m definitely not ‘Sutton Stracke’ in the church,” she added, since she had to return to her maiden name of Sutton Brown. “So that feels weird … It feels heartbreaking on many levels.”
Sutton also spoke of divorced women and finances
After addressing her feelings about her divorce and subsequent annulment, Sutton shifted gears. “Divorced women need to know their finances,” she told Real Housewives of New York alum Dorinda Medley and Kiki Monique on their shared podcast, Reality Checked.
She had been divorced for “three or four years” when she suddenly realized how important it is for divorced women to “understand [their] finances.” She added, “Women can sometimes lean too much on men.” Fortunately, Sutton’s ex was very generous with her settlement, but now it’s up to her to manage that money.
Surprisingly, Dorinda absolutely agreed with her. “I never allowed Richard to write a check,” she said of her late husband, who passed away in 2011. “I took care of all the finances in my house.”
When her husband died, she went in to talk to the attorney to settle his estate. He was shocked at how organized she was. “Do you know that most women have no idea where their checking accounts are?” he told her. “And [at that time] something like only … about 21% of women have a will. Women don’t do wills. Isn’t that frightening?”
“And the only reason I have one now,” Dorinda added, “is because I’ve been divorced and I’ve been widowed … I have to have a will. You know what I mean?”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills airs Thursdays at 8/7c on Bravo, streaming on Peacock the following day.
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