Danielle Staub

**Danielle Staub** (born Beverly Ann Merrill; July 29, 1962) is an American television personality. She is best known for starring in the Bravo reality series The Real Housewives of New Jersey.

## Early Life

Staub was born in Wayne, New Jersey. She was born to a fifteen-year-old mother of Sicilian heritage but was adopted and raised in Pennsylvania. She has said on numerous occasions that she was sexually abused as a child by multiple relatives.

## Career

Staub, In 2001, she briefly acted in an episode of All My Children.

In September 2010, she appeared on the Style Network comedy program The Dish. She acted in several sketches, including a surprise cold open where she tried to take over as the show's host after leaving the real presenter, Danielle Fishel, bound and gagged backstage. In 2011, Staub, along with Heidi Montag of The Hills and Jake Pavelka of The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love, starred in a food-related reality series for VH1 called Famous Food, in which they would revamp a restaurant from the ground up."

Staub launched a podcalled called Absolutely Danielle in July 2020.

### The Real Housewives of New Jersey

In 2009, Danielle joined the cast of the Bravo reality television series for the first season. She departed after the second season before returning as a 'friend of the housewives' in Season 8, 9 and 10 but left again after this.

#### **RHONJ Taglines**

* Season 1 and 2 - "You're either gonna love me or hate me. There is no inbetween with me."

## Personal Life

### Marriages and Children

She has stated that she has been engaged 21 times.

Staub has been married three times. She married her first husband, Kevin Maher in 1986 but the couple got divorced in 1987.

She married her second husband, Thomas Staub on July 7, 1993 and together they have two daughters: Christine (born December 4, 1990) and Jillian (born May 14, 1998). They also got divorced in 2007.

She married her third husband, businessman Marty Caffrey on May 5, May 2018. Their wedding was shown on The Real Housewives. It was announced they had separated in August 2018 and their divorce was finalised on February 21, 2019.

### Legal Problems

During the first season of The Real Housewives, other participants in the reality show confronted Staub with Charles Kipps' book Cop Without a Badge, which recounted events that surrounded Kevin Maher, an undercover FBI informer, who had once been married to Staub. The book also included an account of Staub's arrest. Known at the time as Beverly Merrill, Staub co-operated with authorities and received five years probation. She had been arrested in June 1986, but she denied many of the other allegations Maher had made. In her own autobiography, she wrote that her arrest was a matter of "wrong place/wrong time".

In October 2009, Staub's ex-husband Maher sued her for defamation of character after allegations were made about him. However, it was settled out of court. In October 2010, Staub was sued again by Maher for making false allegations in her memoir The Naked Truth, after notifying the publisher Simon & Schuster, a lawsuit would be filed if the book was published. In May 2011, she signed a three-year deal with Scores Gentleman's Club to appear as a fully nude stripper and to star in adult online content. Days after signing her contract for adult performances, she announced that she was seeking psychological and addiction treatment, and reneged on the deal.

## Family

**Husbands and Partners**

* Kevin Maher (Ex-husband; 1986-1987)
* Thomas Staub (Ex-husband; 1993-2007)
* Marty Caffrey (Ex-husband; 2018-2019)

**Children**

* Christine Staub
* Jillian Staub