Bethenny Frankel’s ex-hubby Jason Hoppy has been arrested and charged with allegedly stalking and harassing his ex-wife.
He reportedly sent a series of abusive emails to her before turning up at their six-year-old daughter Bryn’s school last week, where he told Bethenny he would “destroy” her.
A spokesperson for the New York Police Department told the New York Post’s Page Six that; “The complainant said Hoppy had sent numerous emails and FaceTime calls numbering in the hundreds after a cease and desist letter was sent on November 22, 2016.
“On Friday, January 27, the suspect approached her and a friend at her child’s school at around 8:15 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.’”
According to the publication, Jason has denied the charges, which equate to aggravated harassment in the first degree, harassment in the second degree, and stalking in the fourth degree.
Jason, Bethenny and Bryn are happy families in NYC on May 1, 2012.
The news comes after the Real Housewives of New York star – who finalised her divorce from Jason last year after splitting in 2012 – admitted the bitter divorce left her “depressed.”
“I was experiencing emotional distress and felt hopeless and a little bit, dare I say, depressed,” she said.
“I think that was surprising to women because I’m successful, I have a powerful personality and I was going through my own personal crisis.”
“There are still some bad parts that I definitely thought would be gone.
“But the hardest parts have been anything that seems negative for my daughter. Anything that is unnecessarily negative for my daughter is really challenging for me. You know, you kind of have to look inside, find your strength.”
Bethenny is said to have left New York with Bryn for The Hamptons over the weekend. Her lawyer has claimed that she suffered “years of systematic bullying, harassment, stalking and torment on an almost daily basis.”
