Update: Sonja, Alex McCord and Ramona Singer took a later flight to Morocco.
In a surprising development. Sonja Morgan filed for bankruptcy today in New York. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that her production company lost a lawsuit to Hannibal Pictures for a failed attempt to produce a movie. She has 13 million in assets, but an outstanding debt of 19 million . The Real Housewives of New York City are currently filming season 4 in Morocco. It is unknown whether or not Sonja stayed behind for today’s filing.
The Journal reports:
She blamed her financial woes on a failed venture with Hannibal Pictures Inc. to make a movie starring John Travolta. That film was to be called “Fast Flash to Bang Time,” court papers said.
Morgan said the movie never got off the ground because of “various conditions” that Travolta demanded and her production company, Sonja Productions, could not meet. Hannibal Pictures filed a lawsuit against Sonja Productions in California and won a $7 million judgment.
Morgan said she wasn’t adequately represented at the trial and has filed an appeal. Morgan also pointed to her “bitter” and unresolved divorce from her husband, a man she described as “many years my senior and a descendant of J.P. Morgan and John Adams.”
While she works to resolve these disputes and formulate a plan of reorganization, Morgan said she hopes to take preserve the value of her assets and continue her career as a television personality. She said her appearances on “Real Housewives” position her to pursue potentially lucrative endeavors, like writing a cookbook an developing a clothing line.
On her website, Morgan says she’d be Andy Warhol’s muse today (if the artist were alive) and proclaims that her friends — royalty, fashion designers, celebrities, philanthropists, socialites and powerful bankers — “follow her to whatever venture she attaches herself and which city she finds herself.”
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Excuse me, but it WAS Sonja that Alex was referring to as A THUG IN A COCKTAIL DRESS! And she was right!!!! Luann is a “shit stirrer” and she is really good at it.
Her boobs are so fake looking I can’t stand it … you’d think these “housewives” could afford the best — oh wait, maybe they all think they HAVE the best.
I’m sorry but really….she care’s more about her “luxurious things” and appearances than actually focusing on living as a newly divorced woman and reinventing herself to live within “Sonja’s means” as oppose to “MRS Sonja whatever her last name is…” means. Face it. She saw ONLY dollar signs in whatever “business venture” she was pursuing and avoided reading the fine print and getting “her lawyers” involved at that point, but NOW she wants to blame the cause of her financial troubles as being due to failed “business ventures.” She wears clothes with the tag still on to “remember what a great deal she got for the item…” Oh come on….I’ve worked retail before and know “her type”….buy the most expensive item in the department that the CREDIT CARD will hold, and within two weeks (or at latest BEFORE the credit card bill comes due), return the items…yes…keeping up with appearances. She has said plenty of times during her appearance on Real Housewives that she loves to entertain and loves luxury….in laymans terms I signal that as she wants to show off and give off the appearance that even without her husband she can afford her high life. Frankly I think she was superficial in the way that she handled her changed financial status and situation. Now that it’s published that she is filing bankruptcy and she’s basically living a lie, she NOW wants to say that what’s important is raising her daughter and maintaining her home. No, she certainly didn’t make that a priority AFTER her divorce though.
I agree with Donna. I don’t wish bankruptcy on anyone. I think some of these women married for money, and those marriages went south, and they are left to fend for themselves, with no concept of keeping track of their finances. They live way beyond their means. Bethenny Frankel made her money the honest way, and I’m so happy for her. When she was first on the show, she was struggling, and had a small business “Bethenny Bakes”, and look where she is now! She went from handing out cookies at events to building her own empire.
The New York Housewives for the most part, all work in some capacity, and they all seem to be trying to reinvent themselves, independent from their spouses (if they have one), except I think the Countess, and her book…she needs to read it a few times “Darling”.
Back to Sonja, I hope she rises up from this, and comes out on top. I don’t believe everything I read in the tabloids, but I’m sure she’s got an uphill battle.
the most level headed??? Are you watching the same show. Or maybe you are just talking about a different Sonja personality
Housewives of NY:
rude, ignorant, loud, crude, dishonest, gossips, untreated mental illness, alcoholic.
Has any one of them ever read a book?
It’s a shame when people carry on this way for the cameras, and then, you find out they’re no different than you.
I wouldn’t wish bankruptcy on anyone but she really is AWFUL. Rude, self-important, and very crude in many ways. Not to mention pathologically narcissistic. Hard to feel very sorry for her in light of her personality.
Well arrogance like her always causes a fall. And who thinks she is pretty. Shes just a dressed up ugly woman. I do not like her attitude and she has no class at all. The sneaky lying ones always get what they deserve.
such a fake, she thinks shes the epitome of class and breeding, she wouldn’t know good manners or taste if they jumped up and bit her in the face
Alex said it best. “A thug in a cocktail dress”. Best RHONY line to date.
Sonja is catching Kelly-land-itis. She totally revisions what really took place. She hijacked the marriage equality march with the speaking engagements. She was the one who asked Alex to comment/explain etc, and then has the audacity to claim Alex came in attacking. Huh?
Thug in a cocktail dress was referring to Luann not Sonya
How can you find this woman the least bit appealing after viewing the new season?She’s NOT sexy & beautiful, as she frequently reminds us; try narcissistic egomaniac, who desperately wishes she wasn’t pushing 50. The way she lied about what went down at the gay demonstration made her sound deranged. Such a hateful twat.
I like her. I’m sorry to hear about her troubles. It seems like the Housewives of Beverly Hills are the only housewives with real money, though. Bethenny is building a nice fortune for herself, which is good to see. I hope Sonja’s future ventures are successful.
Quite a few of these housewives have had trouble with their finances. What is going on ??
LIES, EXAGGERATION, “FAKING IT TILL THEY MAKE IT…,” MAKING APPEARANCES,….You name it…THAT’S what’s going on….Good thing I don’t live MY life in a “keeping up with the Jones’” way. We see first hand where it got these women and their families. In fact, that old saying is “all that glitters isn’t gold”, and indeed, the majority of these featured women throughout all the Real Housewives series are living an over the top LIE.
thats awfull!! shes still awsome! probably the most level headed lady on realhousewives. GOOD LUCK
Great read! Always informative : ) poor sonja, hard times for us all.
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