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Joe Gorga has apparently been found out to have been telling a big lie.
After Gorga, star of “Real Housewives of New Jersey” and husband of co-star Melissa Gorga, shared “before” and “after” photos of a home he claimed to have renovated, the woman who owns the “after” home in Park Ridge, New Jersey, publicly called him out for sharing a completely false post.
On Feb. 17, Kaylee Svenson shared a screenshot on her Instagram Story in which she revealed that she was the “later” owner of the home.
Kaylee, who was identified as the owner of the home through property records, said in an interview with Page Six on Monday that she found Joe's post “really weird” after a friend tagged her in an attempt to convince his followers that the house was one of his resales. Kaylee also revealed that the “previous” home is actually at a different address in the same town.
“It's obviously our house,” she said. “I [Joe] “I messaged them asking them to remove the post but got no response. I also sent them DMs but got no response.”
Kaylee and her husband purchased the home that Joe claims to have resold from a builder who built it “from the ground up” in December 2018 after it was “totally demolished.”
“[It has a] “It comes complete with a new basement and everything. It's not just a 'flip',” she said.
When Joe first posted the “before” and “after” photos of the home, he wrote, “Check out this $1.9 million worth of renovation. It took 6 months to rebuild this. We ripped out the roof and added a second floor. I think I might move in here.”
As soon as Joe shared the post, some of his fans and followers expressed doubts about what he had actually done, with many suggesting that he may have had to completely demolish the house in order to make certain changes.
“They must have demolished the first floor to make way for a two-storey colonial-style building,” one person said.
Joe, who released a memoir called “The Gorga Guide to Success” last year, temporarily deleted his Instagram account but has since reinstated it, but the “house flipping” post has disappeared from his page.
According to reports, the “old” home is now listed on Realtor.com as “recently sold” and has a completely different address than Kaylee and her husband's “later” home. Kaylee has contacted the builder's lawyer and is considering legal action.
“The Real Housewives of New Jersey” Season 10 airs Wednesdays at 8 pm on Bravo.
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