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Gia Giudice and Joe Gorga have re-followed one another on Instagram after a years-long estrangement.
Nearly two weeks after Joe, 51, and his wife, Melissa Gorga, 46, reunited with his sister, Teresa Giudice, 53, and her husband, Luis Ruelas, the 24-year-old Next Gen NYC cast member and her uncle have hinted at the possible end of their family feud.
In a screenshot shared by AllAboutTRH on Instagram, the followers’ lists of both Joe and Gia were seen, confirming that they are both following each other once again.
As Real Housewives of New Jersey fans have surely heard, Joe and Teresa met one another earlier this month to discuss their years of tension. And while some have suggested that they did so in an effort to mend the cast divide and begin filming the series’ potential 15th season, she’s insisted that she simply wants “peace.”
“I did it for my daughters and I did it for my nephews and niece. I just want peace. That’s it,” Teresa explained on an October episode of her podcast, Turning the Tables by Teresa Giudice. “I wanna be a good influence for everyone out there. Also, if they’re going through a difficult time with their families, I want them to be able to forgive also and move on. I know sometimes it’s hard to do that, but sometimes we just do it for the kids. We want to be a good example for our children.”
She also denied having ulterior motives for reaching out to Joe.
“I don’t do things just for TV because then, the fans are gonna know. If it’s fake, I don’t know how to be fake. That’s the thing, I don’t know how to be fake,” Teresa shared. “I think people are going to be able to see it, so I only know how to be real. There are some people that know how to fake it, but it would be hard to fake it, and I don’t want that either.”
“I want it to be good, like if I see him, and that’s it. I don’t want no more fighting,” she added.
Quick on the heels of famously sassy, phrase-turning R&B singer and reality TV star Tamar Braxton’s announcement her recently released album, “Bluebird of Happiness,” will be her last — at least for a while — and news that her husband, music executive husband Vincent Herbert, founder of Streamline Records, was legally ordered to pay Sony more than $3.7 million to settle a lawsuit over a 2013 advance, the couple hoisted their grandly proportioned and glamorously appointed Mediterranean mansion in Calabasas, Calif., up for sale at $15 million.
The Herbert-Braxtons, married in late 2007 after about five years together, purchased the 13,716-square-foot mansion inside the double-gated Estates at The Oaks enclave in April 2013 for $10.5 million and public records show since then there have been several notices of default filed and subsequently canceled against the two-acre spread that provides a total of seven bedrooms and nine full and two half bathrooms between the main house and poolside guesthouse.
Wrought iron and glass front doors open to an entry vestibule and foyer with black and white floral-patterned inlaid floor and a floating, wrought iron railed staircase that curves up to the bedrooms on the second floor. The main living and entertaining space makes a great sweep across the rear of the residence with gleaming wide-plank hardwood floors laid in a classy chevron pattern.
A central gallery with glossy grand piano is flanked to one side by a lounge with semi-circular sofa in front of an ornate fireplace and to the other by a “champagne bar” modeled after The Dorchester Hotel in London with tufted velvet sofas and a stately wood-paneled ceiling.
Arched French doors open the vast space to an immense, stone-paved loggia with retractable canvas shade awnings and a bowling alley-length dining table that easily seats at least two-dozen al fresco diners. With elaborately carved cabinetry, granite countertops and a super-sized commercial-style range under a hand-hammered copper hood, the kitchen is open to a spacious informal dining area that, in turn, opens to a family room with fireplace and French doors to the backyard.
The three-story mansion’s creature comfort also include a home theater, a game room, an office, a wine cellar with tasting room and, unsurprisingly, a recording studio along with an elevator, an camera-equipped security system, a gentlemen’s lounge with authentic barber chair, a mirror-walled gym and a subterranean parking garage that will accommodate over a dozen cars. The mansion makes a U-shaped embrace around a broad and grassy courtyard with swimming pool and spa beyond which a soccer pitch-sized lawn gives way to a panoramic view over rugged ravines and undeveloped mountaintops.
Some of the other, equally sized and similarly luxurious estates in The Estates sections of The Oaks are owned by reality television’s Kourtney and Khloé Kardashian, Michael Jackson’s mother Katherine Jackson, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and Jay McGraw, elder son of extraordinarily well-compensated TV therapist Dr. Phil McGraw, and his Playboy model wife Erica Dahm.