That is a ridiculous headline right? Say what you want about LVP but she built that club from the ground up and planted olive trees were there was nothing with her own lily-white hands and turned it into a popular hotspot that goes hand in hand with her SUR clientele.
So WTF is Nene nattering on about? Well, she was recently on Jenny McCarthy’s radio show. It was there that she clarified that when she was on WWHL and said she had a beef with someone on RHOBH she got confused about the names and said Lisa Rinna when she meant Lisa Vanderpump. That sounds a little odd but Nene is of a certain age when women struggle with names. Don’t ask me how I know this.
She goes on to explain the full story and it sounds very plausible to me. Remember when Nene was living in LA briefly and the RHOA flew out there to film a show and they were all hours late to dinner at Nene’s house and she turned them away from at the door? Well, that is when everything went down back in 2012.
Nene and Gregg were living in a house in the Hollywood Hills on a short-term lease while she was filming Glee and The New Normal (and a bit of RHOA). Nene claimed today when speaking to Jenny that during that time she and Gregg would pass the site of the future PUMP restaurant and she thought since in was in Weho, she could open a successful gay bar because she had a broad fan base in the gay community.
Okay. Other than the fake Pizza company thing, since when has Nene ever expressed interested in opening a bar or restaurant particularly in Beverly Hills when her home is in Atlanta?
Nene continues her story by saying she called up LVP because she owned restaurants in the area to get her opinion. She claims LVP told her it was a bad deal and the property was priced too high. So Nene abandoned the idea and LVP swooped in to get it. That sounds like LVP to me.
Why? Because at the time LVP leased the property she was hit with yet another lawsuit by two men who also claim that LVP stole the property out from under her. Ryan Carrillo and Andrew Gruver who were in negotiations to lease the property when there was some sort of problem with their investors that they were in the process of working out and LVP and Ken came in and made the property owners a better offer for a lease. The two men promptly sued them for damages and attempted to get an injunction on the lease until the courts could work it all out.
So there was indeed a lot of shady business going on with the lease of the land that PUMP was built on. As there is with every LVP transaction it seems. Fortunately for them, all of this happened around the same time that Teresa and Joe were indicted on 39 (later updated to 41) counts of fraud. This might be a good time to revisit that link. Nonetheless, clearly LVP and Ken won the war and PUMP came to fruition.
So what do you think about Nene’s claims?
No one cares Nene. She will do any and everything to hang onto the spotlight since RHOA is going down the toilet. Talk about not owning Swagg.
everybody wants to ride on lisa vanderpump coattails many are jealous of her success and class, if nene wanted the property since she is “rich bitch” she could have did it. besides doesn’t nene live in atlanta anyway? open something there
What I do not understand is why didn’t she say anything a couple of years ago when Pump first opened up. This sounds like someone who is being jealous, petty and wants some attention..
Nene Leakes, “jealous, petty and wants some attention..” !!!!!
HOW DARE YOU! LOL.
Because NeNe has so much experience running restaurants… Because LVP and Ken are in that area and know the lay of the land and what is happening in WEHO, as business owners in enclaves usually do… Because NeNe just “happened upon” a place that would soon be available? I thought it was a sex shop and that Ken took LVP there to sell her on the idea to get that property that was not even available yet… Because NeNe is a narcissistic egomaniacal liar… Reasons to believe … NOT NeNe. She couldn’t even get the name right.
The sex shop is now TomTom I think the whole this is for publicity !
Is Nene using my queen LVP to get press? I am so confused!!! SMH… With what money was Nene going to buy the land and make a restart in hollywooooo?? Did LVP stole the name pump too. What is Nene doing? can someone explain it to me?
I tried. Perhaps if you read it again and subvocalize a bit (that means reading almost out loud) you will get it.
TEE HEE!
I thought NeNe had IRS liens and/or bankruptcy a few years ago & that’s why she came back to RH? Also, I can’t imagine she was paid that much for Glee or New Normal since she didn’t have a starring role on either show. And lastly, I can’t imagine NeNe biting her tongue for this many years if someone screwed her over.
Being “in negotiations” on a property does not mean someone can’t swoop in with a better offer. I have no idea why those two men thought they could hold her up with a lawsuit or injunction or whatever the hell they tried.
True. I was thinking the same thing. Like on MDLLA…they have multiple offers and the seller picks the one he wants.
Properties like this usually have a clause in the buy sell where the owner can continue to take offers while someone is negotiating their financing. A safeguard in case the financing fails and the property was “off market” during that time. I think it’s called a “right to accept other offers”, like a contingency, that has a timeline on it and gives the previous offerers the option to best it. If these previous yahoos had an iron clad buy-sell in place, signed, sealed and accepted, they would have a case. Obviously not.
Judging from the outcomes, none of these other “ripped off” players really have anything to point a finger at. Real Estate business is done like this all the time. It’s cutthroat. Quit crying and go find something to invest in that isn’t so mean to you.
Once more with feeling, THE ARE LEASING THE LAND. It was a lease agreement. Not a purchase agreement. Once a lease is signed, the owner isn’t supposed to back out and lease to someone else. thus the lawsuit.
They’re not leasing the land – they’re leasing the property. In California, the only lease on land are beachfront properties and that’s a 99 year lease. You never own the land but you own the building. I live 5 mins from all of LVPs properties in WeHo. Ken found the storefront property (which used to be a sex shop) and was shown in one of the episodes on RHOBH. Nene didn’t have a pot to piss in, much less enough creative talent to open a bar in WeHo when she didn’t reside here full time and I do believe she got hit with that IRS lien at the time.
I don’t believe her. With her big mouth she would’ve stayed quite for years? She needs to have her wig adjusted – it’s on too tight and cutting off the circulation to what’s left of her brain.
i don’t believe the sex shop and PUMP were the same location, though i do recall them considering the sex shop. LVP and Ken built PUMP from the ground up.
You are correct TT, the former sex shop is now the dog rescue.
Is it just my eyesight but, does it look like Nene has gotten a Kim Z makeover? Gees people! Put the plastic surgery down!
I noticed she’s been overdoing it with highlighter lately. The tip of her nose always looks like she’s painted a white dot on it!
I don’t think many people really understand how expensive land is in LA. Kandi has money to invest, but Nene. Please!!!!!
LVP nor any of the other people were purchasing the land. LVP LEASES the land from the own as did the other people trying to get in on the prime real estate.
Sorry Tamara need to correct you again. LVP is leasing the building – not the land. The building was for lease when Ken found it as the sex shop didn’t renew their lease.
Well since Nene has yet to open a bar or restaurant, I’d say it was a pipe dream and more of her showboating to LVP about something she was never going to do. She couldn’t even furnish her house for the longest time, but she’s going to open up a club? Girl, bye.
Nene probably wanted Lisa to open a club using Nene’s face and name. Like Tom Tom. At the time Nene thought she was somebody important. Lisa would do all the work and Nene takes the credit. As far as Pump goes, that’s business.
And we are just hearing about it now ? Suppose her acting career was going to help bankroll it. Wasnt that the time kenya loaned her furniture for her rental. Now that its established nene can swoop in and buy it with her acting money. Im sure Phaedra will help her run it, the new Tom tom. Oh god, i just had a vision of Phaedra behind the bar.
When I read the headline, I truly thought she stole a SHOE (a pump to be exact) from Lisa!!! I didn’t realize it was PUMP the Resturant until I read the post.
Please laugh WITH me and not at me ?
I’ll give you a giggle for sure, sometimes my brain crisscrosses wires and I read things sooo wrong.
The real story is almost as funny.
I was like, did this footwear fiasco go down at Andy’s baby shower?!
Thank you for the giggle 🙂
It was horrible! I stole Nene’s size 11 LV’s (in my dreams) then LVP called and wanted them back for her pink size 11 shoed horse. Nene told on me so I had to give them back to her, then LVP denied loaning them to Nene, so thank goodness I had given them back so Nene didn’t lose face. Kipper could have gone to jail over this but she got lucky that it was only Nene and LVP involved.
I still want those pumps, damn.
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Nenes full of shit….as usual
Brandi Glanville’s quote from 2014 still holds true today. “Lisa Vanderpump could barbecue a baby and people would think it was cute.”
You had so much rage for Brandi Glanville when she was against Rinna and Eileen. Now we should act like she knows all? LVP probably did steal that property out from under Nene, but do you really think Nene was ever going to turn that place into anything successful? She hasn’t done anything in Atlanta even remotely similar.
Who said Brandi knows all? She was right about LVP though once she took off her rose colored glasses.
This post is about one grifter talking about another grifter and neither is credible. But as usual, people come out of the woodwork to defend her as some sort of upstanding citizen.
It’s just hard for folks to reconcile what they see on television and what happens in real life. They can still love her. I do.
TT, you hit the proverbial nail on the head: one grifter talking about another grifter and neither is credible. but i’ll pass on defending either one of them. ugh.
Girl, you’ve kinda been team Brandi Glanville lately. I don’t know how I got there, but I was reading an old post of yours on Brandi’s final season and you had showed her no mercy. If she came back those ladies would have much more to bitch about than LVP’s pity party. For sure.
I don’t think LVP is perfect. I realize when she is fake and setting people up. I’m sure her real life is messy, but to me she is a great soap opera type heroine/villain. Plus she loves animals soo yeah. I still like LVP.
I’ve never been pro Brandi, but even a broken clock is right twice a day, and she had LVP’s number and so did Yolanda. Yolanda also knows where a lot of LVPs bodies are buried. The thing is LVP knew where Yolanda’s were buried too (some of which are buried at sea) so… they kept their mouths shut and kept at a civil distance.
Oh, I can only imagine! Yolanda fizzled out quick with her Lyme BS, it’s too bad because I feel like she had a lot more to give.
nene is good at showing up to parties to make some money (think peters places.) cannot even imagine her owning a full time place in BH when she is living in atlanta. cannot even imagine her getting a loan for that amount of money to START a bar or restaurant.
LVP may have “stolen it” from the other guys but i seriously doubt she “stole it” from nene. it is not that difficult to break an initial lease if you dont come up with money as a security deposit, financials, loan documents, or a co-signer, depending on the terms.
during that time nene was also selling her clothing on hsn in florida. how would she have managed all of that? nene is a character…and that in itself is a full time job.
IIRC the landowner had something to do with investing in the first two guys an he pulled out his investment when LVP showed up and backed out of the agreement. The owner was included and to me at least the primary party in the lawsuit.
Wow…ya gotta wonder what kind of clout she has and how/why did he pull out? That’s what I want to know. Is it because he thought she was better suited for the property? Or is she an LA Gangsta?
I’ll try to refrain from commenting anymore tonight. I injured my shoulder and I’m high AF on muscle relaxers and prednisone and a couple other things the doctor ordered. (I’m not sure I can kee taking all this stuff.)
There you have it. It’s the land owners fault. Apparently land owner signed a lease agreement with these two guys who couldn’t come up with the financing to invest. Land owner went with next option – Lisa. Lisa must have solid investors with big pockets. This is her 5th restaurant we know of in the USA.
Nene must of gotten a call from Rinna saying she was going to fuck her up. (Just like Kim Richards). She didn’t confuse anybody.
OH, that makes more sense if he was tied to the investment group.
Considering all these upstanding citizens, my money will always be on miss Lisa .
Even if it happened exactly as NeNe is claiming, if she was really interested in the property she should have done more follow up work. Instead she just took Lisa’s word for it and walked away. Nothing was stolen from her.
It’s the show Pump Rules that sustains Lisa’s restaurant business. They are basically tourist attractions. NeNe doesn’t have anything like that to have kept customers coming in. Her bar, had she built one there, would most like have gone under within a year or two.
Didn’t Nene have some tax liens, bankruptcy, auto loan defauts, credit problems?
This is Beverly Hills she’s talking about where you have to have connections and at least some kind of collateral and business sense to open and succeed with a restaurant here. She’s a delusion in her own mind. Even Kyle’s store struggled near Villa Rosa. The rents are also out of reach and you would have to have to be able pay builders, contractors, vendors, and still have enough to complete it and carry it for some time until it is successful. She’s a nutcase.
I mean’t Villa Blanca not Villa Rosa …sorry
Yes to all of this.
There is a town near the ATL metro called Villa Rica I type that every I have to report on Villa Blanca. Or Villa Rosa
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Americans have hard-ons for anyone with a British accent.
This. And it is embarrassing to watch the herd gleefully following the coyote. Darwinism I suppose,
Nene is full of shit! She is so jealous of anyone else’s success, it’s ridiculous. Nene doesn’t even live in LA.
If I had a business in Atlanta, I would ask the other Atlanta housewives to sign a non-compete agreement that would prevent them from opening a similar busisiness. Kandi has the Midas Touch and Nene is green with envy of Kandi’s success.
Nene needs to have several seats. Bye Felicia!
And why does Nene look exactly like Kim now? If you lightened Nene’s picture, Kim would appear.
Nene has been morphing into Kim since 2008. The transition is almost complete.
I am not one to remark on a small nip or tuck – but some of the ladies are unrecognizable from their original selves. Kim’s family is a mess – alll the girls.
I’m rewatching season 2 of RHOBH now. It’s really interesting to see the introduction of Brandi again after all this time has passed. There is also all of the Taylor and Russ drama and how Taylor thought Lisa was going to the press. It makes me see Lisa in a whole new way. It also is making me see how more down to earth Kyle, Camille and Adriane were.
Nothing quite makes my day like people losing their mind over something LVP said, wore, bought, ate, drank, drove, flew or thought. Whole lot of angry, jealous nutters. Watching the volcano of verbal diarrhea is beautiful and predictable.
Do I think Nene phoned LVP to discuss opening up a club or restaurant- yes I do. Do I think it was in this spot or a gay bar, no I do not. LVP has had several gay bars, they were huge in London. This is where she and Ken made their money, and continue to make their money. LVP and Ken are savvy, and yeah Ibelieve if they liked a space they would be a bit savage in the business area.
Tamara, what is with the Joe/Teresa reminders? Foreshadowing about another house?
Oh NeNe trying desperately to stay relevant these days? Not enough drama on RHOA? At what point did you decide to tell this weird made up story for more press? Too funny
Lisa’s gave Nene self serving advice? Believe it.
So LVP and Ken Todd are better are negotiating and closing real estate deals than Nene and Greg. Big Deal. Get over it. LVP and Ken have done it dozens of times successfully. Nene and Greg have not. Experience wins everytime. The fact that Nene says she walked away from a venture based simply and solely on a comment from LVP tells me she wasn’t serious about acquiring that property anyway. Most serious investors have advisors, partners and a business plan before they scout a location. And if it’s a good investment, they know it before someone like LVP offers an opinion. This is not about Pump. This is about Nene thinking she was going to move to LA and be a BH Housewife. Didn’t happen and she’s disappointed. So, she’s just auditioning once again for BH by trying to create a storyline with LVP. Bloop.
Just love all the speculation. There’s a crack in the sidewalk and guess whose fault it is. Will never get the nastiness or hate.
Fiddle faddle. Nene couldn’t open an envelope let alone a bar. She doesn’t have the credit or track record to sustain such an operation in WeHo. If, indeed, LVP did her dirty, good on LVP. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving person. I luhs my LVP, supposed warts and all.
Maybe at the time Nene asked LVP about the space, it truly was a bad deal. The owner could have changed the cost or whatever for the space sometime down the road and LVP heard about it (which she most likely would have since she has a business in the area) and decided why not? Or maybe she was already looking at it and that’s why she discouraged Nene? Who knows? Maybe LVP really is a snake. The thing for me is, LVP was already established in that area and would have known about the property being available. Nene asking her about it would most likely not have been what suddenly made LVP aware of the space and it’s availability and why she decided she had to have it. Or maybe she simply didn’t want another Housewife opening a restaurant in her area. Can’t really say as I can blame her if that’s the case. All I know for certain is that these housewives have more drama than middle school children. Do normal people live like this too?
1) It probably did happen. Why would LVP want another Housewife having a restaurant in LA. Nene was pretty dumb to think that LVP would support her trying to compete with LVP’s other restaurants.
2) There is no way in HELL that Nene would have been successful. That would have been a Grade A Shit Show! LVP did her a favor.
3. Nene should shut up. She sounds desperate.
I think if you make the decision to pass on a property “because someone told me to” then no one stole shit from you!
It costs well over a million bucks to open a restaurant or bar from scratch in California and that’s just for the food service equipment, decor and getting through the initial few months. The lease must be paid whether the business is ready to open or not. Just getting through permitting is a nightmare.
Staffing a is an art form and also incredibly expensive.
I just don’t see someone non-local without established relationships in the industry being able to pull it off. Maybe that’s what LVP was indicating to Nene?
“…since when has Nene ever expressed interested in opening a bar or restaurant particularly in Beverly Hills when her home is in Atlanta?”
Since she thought she was going to be a big star and move to BH. She was wrong about that too.
If the building/land was for lease the owners probably wanted someone who could make a business work and not close up after 6 months and not be able to make their payments.