“Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Joe Gorga was arrested for stealing “before” and “after” photos from a home renovation he never did.
Shocked property owners spotted photos of the renovated home on Joe Gorga's Instagram page on Monday, with the reality TV dad claiming he renovated the house in six months.
“Check out this flip property valued at $1.1M. Took 6 months to rebuild this. Took the roof off and added a 2nd floor. Might be ready to move in,” he wrote, adding the hashtags “#growwithgorga #newflip #developer #construction #rehab #reaestate.”
According to property records, Kaylee and Eric Svenson own the renovated home pictured below. The home is located in Park Ridge, New Jersey.
However, Kaylee Svenson said the “before” home posted on Joe Gorga's Instagram is at a different address in the same town.
“Obviously it's our house,” Kaylee Svenson told Page Six. “I [Gorga] “I messaged them asking them to remove the post but got no response. I also sent them DMs but got no response.”
The homeowner said he found it “really weird” when a friend tagged him in an Instagram post by Joe Gorga, advertising his house as one that Gorga had renovated.
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The property owner then slammed Joe Gorga on his Instagram Story.
Svensson also clarified that her home was not a “flip” – she and her husband purchased the four-bedroom house from the builder himself in December 2018, but it was “totally gutted” and “rebuilt from the ground up,” including a new basement.
Svensson and her husband are considering taking legal action against Joe Gorga.
Joe Gorga has a long history of shady business dealings, all of which point to a pattern of financial misconduct. In December 2014, it was reported that Joe and his wife Melissa owed $2 million to various contractors.
In 2018, AllAboutTheTEA.com arrested Joe Gorga for shoplifting at a Home Depot store in New Jersey, something he denies, but the store manager confirmed the incident to AllAboutTheTEA.com.
“The Real Housewives of New Jersey” airs Wednesdays at 8pm ET on Bravo.
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