Danielle Staub

Danielle Staub, born Beverly Ann Merrill, is best known for starring on The Real Housewives of New Jersey as a main cast member for its first two seasons from 2009 to 2010, then as a friend for seasons 8, 9 and 10 from 2017 to 2020. The reality star also ventured into acting, with her credits including a small role on All My Children in 2001.

On the first season of RHONJ, fellow Housewives confronted Staub about Charles Kipps’ 1996 book, Cop Without A Badge, which detailed events involving her ex-husband Kevin Maher, an undercover FBI informant. The book also referenced Staub’s 1986 arrest for kidnapping and extortion. Staub came clean about her troubled past in her 2010 autobiography, The Naked Truth.

Staub and Maher were married from 1986 to 1987. Following their split, the Bravo star was married to Thomas Staub from 1993 to 2007. The exes share daughters Christine and Jillian, who were born in 1994 and 1998, respectively. She married third husband Marty Caffrey in May 2018. They announced their separation in August of that year and finalized their divorce in February 2019.