Frankel says ex is a stalker
BETHENNY Frankel’s ex-husband Jason Hoppy was arrested for stalking the “Real Housewife” after he allegedly confronted her at their 6-year-old daughter’s school and yelled, “I will destroy you.”
Hoppy was charged with harassing and stalking Frankel after he allegedly sent her a series of abusive messages, then turned up on Friday at the Manhattan school their daughter, Bryn, attends to threaten his ex and her new boyfriend.
An NYPD spokeswoman said Frankel has alleged Hoppy had sent more than 160 e-mails and messages after a cease-and-desist letter was sent last November. “On Friday, Jan. 27, the suspect approached her and a friend at her child’s school at around 8.30 a.m. and tried to provoke a fight. He said, ‘I will destroy you. You can get all the lawyers you want, you’ve been warned.’ ”
Hoppy was charged with harassment and stalking. His attorney Robert C. Gottlieb said, “There are no words to express how saddened Mr. Hoppy is over his ex-wife’s unjustified actions. His only concern is his daughter, and he intends to vigorously fight these false charges.”
Hoppy and Frankel, both 46, were married for two years before separating in 2012, and have been embroiled in a bitter divorce and custody battle.
The criminal complaint by Frankel alleges how Hoppy approached her and her new beau at Bryn’s school and said, “You can get 10 lawyers. There’s nothing you can do to stop me. You’ll be sorry. You’ve been warned.” Of Frankel, Hoppy allegedly said to her boyfriend, “She’s pure evil.”
A police source said they suspect Frankel may have exaggerated her claims. “It seemed to us that she was filing the report because she wanted to take revenge on him.”
But Frankel’s lawyer Barry Zone said she had undergone “years of systematic bullying, harassment, stalking and torment on an almost daily basis. Indeed, Mr. Hoppy has sent hundreds of escalating texts and e-mails to Ms. Frankel, her assistants and her boyfriend . . . stating that ‘I’ll never go away’ and that ‘[y]ou left me no choice but to go to extremes’ . . . requesting copies of her life insurance policy, and telling her that ‘I’ll pray for you.’ ”