Luann de Lesseps Biography
Luann de Lesseps is a socialite, television personality, model, author, and singer from the United States. De Lesseps rose to prominence in 2008 after being cast in the reality television series The Real Housewives of New York City, which follows the lives of several New York City women. In 2018, she debuted “Countess and Friends,” a cabaret show she created.
Luann de Lesseps
Luann de Lesseps Family
She grew up in Berlin, Connecticut, with her six siblings and her father, who owned a construction company. Her father is of Algonquin and French ancestry, and her mother is French Canadian. De Lesseps revealed in an early episode of Real Housewives that she captained her high school varsity softball team.
Luann de Lesseps Husband
She married Count Alexandre de Lesseps, a French entrepreneur and aristocrat, in 1993; they divorced in 2009, but she kept the courtesy title “countess” until her remarriage in 2016. They have two children, Noel and Victoria. De Lesseps married Tom D’Agostino Jr. on December 31, 2016, losing her “countess” courtesy title in the process. De Lesseps announced her divorce from D’Agostino in August of 2017. The divorce had been settled out of court and would be finalized “immediately,” according to reports in October 2017.
Luann de Lesseps Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $25 million.
Luann de Lesseps Piano Bar
On March 16, 2022, de Lesseps was filmed taking over the microphone and yelling obscenities at a New York City piano bar. On March 18, 2022, de Lesseps issued a statement apologizing for her actions and admitting that her alcoholism is still a problem.
Luann de Lesseps Arrest
De Lesseps was arrested in Palm Beach, Florida in December 2017 on charges of disorderly intoxication, resisting arrest, battery on an officer, and threatening a public servant. She was later released on her own recognizance, but on January 25, 2018, she was charged with a third-degree felony. She entered an alcohol treatment program after her release.
In July 2018, de Lesseps agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor charges of battery, disorderly intoxication, and trespassing stemming from her Palm Beach arrest. In exchange, the felony charge of violently resisting an officer was dropped, and de Lesseps agreed to perform 50 hours of community service, attend two Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, and refrain from drinking alcohol for a year. De Lesseps was arrested and later released in May 2019 for alleged probation violations. She finished her probation in August of 2019. De Lesseps dined at Le Diplomate, an upscale Washington, D.C. restaurant, in 2021 and left without paying the bill. De Lesseps paid her outstanding bill a few days later.
Luann de Lesseps Cabaret
De Lesseps headlined her own cabaret show, #CountessAndFriends, at Feinstein’s/54 Below in Midtown Manhattan in February 2018. The show features de Lesseps singing songs about her life as a countess and reality TV star, with guest appearances by Rachel Dratch and Housewives co-star Sonja Morgan. De Lesseps announced in August 2018 that she would be touring the show, with stops in Long Island and New Jersey.
Luann de Lesseps Book
Class with the Countess: How to Live with Elegance and Flair (Gotham Books, April 16, 2009) was written by De Lesseps.
Luann de Lesseps Money Can’t Buy You Class
She debut single “Money Can’t Buy You Class”. The song was released as a limited single by Ultra Records on April 26, 2010, before the label issued a wider version to digital retailers the following month. De Lesseps was inspired to write a song that conveyed a similar message after writing her non-fiction book Class with the Countess: How to Live with Elegance and Flair in 2009. Chris Young, the song’s sole producer, wrote it with her.
Luann de Lesseps Career
De Lesseps was a Wilhelmina model and a licensed practical nurse in Connecticut. She appears on Bravo’s reality show The Real Housewives of New York City as one of the main cast members. Because she was not living in New York City at the time of filming, she was demoted to a recurring “Friend of the Housewives” role in season 6. It was announced in April 2015 that de Lesseps would return as the main cast member for the seventh season of the show.
De Lesseps appeared as a guest star on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in the episode “Bully” in February 2011, playing a socialite who makes a gruesome discovery. Monét X Change’s podcast The X Change Rate has featured De Lesseps. De Lesseps starred in The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip, a Peacock-exclusive spin-off starring various Real Housewives franchise women that premiered in November 2021.
Luann de Lesseps Songs
♦ 2010 – Money Can’t Buy You Class
♦ 2011 – Chic C’est la Vie
♦ 2015 – Girl Code
♦ 2019 – Feelin’ Jovani
♦ 2020 – Viva La Diva (with Desmond Child)
♦ 2021 – What Do I Want For Christmas?