EXCLUSIVE: Joe Giudice and NJ Housewives Cast Members Detained By Police Overseas After Bar Fight
March 16 2011, Published 9:58 a.m. ET
From New Jersey to the Dominican Republic, Real Housewives of New Jersey house hubby Joe Giudice just can’t escape trouble with the law.
Breaking Celebrity News has obtained exclusive new details about who was involved in the bar fight -- and hauled away by police -- while the cast was on vacation late last month for the upcoming season of the hit Bravo show.
A late night bar brawl led to Teresa Giudice’s burly hubby being detained by police along with Caroline Manzo’s sons Albert Jr. (known on the show as Albie) and Christopher, and their roommate Gregory Bennett.
According to our source, all the cast members partied at their hotel bar at about 1 am on February 23 at the Hard Rock in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, including Caroline and her husband Albert, Jacqueline and Chris Laurita, Teresa and Joe Giudice, newcomers Kathy and Richy Wakile, Joey and Melissa Gorga, the Manzo children (Chris, Albie, and Lauren) and roommate Gregory Bennett.
According to police, they don’t know who started the fight, but our source says that after the New Jersey clan popped open a bottle of champagne which accidentally sprayed on surrounding patrons, it led to the bar brawl with other male patrons.
“Everyone was involved. It became a massive scene,” the source told Breaking Celebrity News.
But it turned physical with about eight people involved, said police when contacted by Breaking Celebrity News, including Joe, Albie, Christopher and Gregory, who were defending the women.
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“Usually when there’s a fight we take one guy, but this time we took everybody,” the police representative said.
According to our source, Joe was “beating on the guy” and struck a male patron with glass.
Police said the patrons injured made the complaint to police.
According to police in the Dominican Republic, the two injured “victims” were Americans Adolfo Arriolla, who had a fracture in his arm