Don’t anticipate to see any sit-down with Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah and government producer Andy Cohen airing on Bravo anytime quickly. The actuality character, who will quickly start a six-and-a-half-year jail sentence for wire fraud in a telemarketing scheme, mentioned on Instagram that she declined an interview with Cohen due to “contractual provisions.”
“On January 6th, I stood before Judge [Sidney H.] Stein and asked him to see me not as a fictionalized character, but as the real Jen Shah,” Shah wrote in a press release she posted to Instagram on January 19. “I am now at a point, legally, emotionally, and mentally, where I can answer some questions and provide a few unknown details about my case. I want and need to share these critical facts. I owe it to those that love and support me to hear the truth.”
Shah claimed that producers had been unwilling “to remove contractual provisions that would allow the network to legally make misrepresentations of me and my story, relating to any and all topics, prior to and during the course of my participation.”
“I promised myself and my loving family that I would not allow this portion of my life to be sensationalized or inaccurately conveyed,” the 49-year-old added. “Too many people have been hurt by my actions and my inability to control my own narrative.”
That mentioned, it seems like Shah can be open to another TV tell-all down the road. “I would rather remain silent and wait until I am able to accurately share my story than continue having complete lies and misrepresentations about me smeared across the headlines,” she wrote. “I intend to speak, and you will hear from me. I will share my story and this painful part of my life very soon.”
On January 6, Judge Stein sentenced Shah to 78 months in jail for working a nationwide telemarketing fraud scheme, after the fact star pleaded responsible in July 2022 to 1 depend of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in reference to telemarketing, in keeping with a Justice Department information launch.
“With today’s sentence, Jennifer Shah finally faces the consequences of the many years she spent targeting vulnerable, elderly victims,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams mentioned on the time of Shah’s sentencing. “These individuals were lured in by false promises of financial security, but in reality, Shah and her co-conspirators defrauded them out of their savings and left them with nothing to show for it. This conviction and sentence demonstrate once again that we will continue to vigorously protect victims of financial fraud and hold accountable those who engage in fraudulent schemes.”
Shah, who was profiled in ABC News Studios’ 2021 Hulu documentary The Housewife & The Shah Shocker, should give up to federal jail on Friday, February 17.