'RHOSLC' Star Jen Shah Denies Being 'Red-Flagged' At Louis Vuitton For Paying In Cash, Scoffs At Meredith Marks' Claim Her Employee Stole
Nov. 15 2021, Published 12:32 p.m. ET
Jen Shah is continuing to plead her innocence.
Sunday's explosive episode of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City documented the moment the 48-year-old married mother of two was arrested, taken into custody and charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering. In March, she and her "first assistant," Stuart Smith, were accused of running a nationwide telemarketing scheme that defrauded particularly vulnerable people (like the elderly) for nine years. They both pleaded not guilty.
But that was just the tip of the episode's iceberg.
While most of the cast was absolutely shocked by what had just transpired while on their way to Vail, Colorado, for a girls trip, one person – Meredith Marks – remained completely unfazed by the situation. She told her co-stars she saw it all coming from a mile away, then made two jaw-dropping claims about Jen.
The first was that she heard that Shah had been "red-flagged" at Louis Vuitton for always paying for her purchases in cash. The second was that one of Jen's "Shah Squad" employees stole merchandise from Marks' store.
What's interesting is that several months ago, an anonymous tipster told celebrity gossip Instagram page Deuxmoi that there was a Bravo Housewife, "not East coast and NOT OC," who "loves to show off her closet" who had been "placed on Louis Vuitton's Do Not Sell list for two years minimum because she was caught buying/reselling loads of merchandise."
Following Sunday's episode of RHOSLC, a Twitter user dredged up the old tip and wrote, "Woah that blind item about a Housewife and Louis Vuitton was about Jen? Interesting... Everyone thought it was about Dorit [Kemsley]..."
Responding to the post, Shah insisted, "Oh please...this is not about me."
She also denied that her employee had snatched a small handbag from Meredith's Park City shop last fall, despite damning surveillance video footage that appeared to show just that.
