Ralph and Karen Guastaferro, Mina Brees
Latest Ralph and Karen Guastaferro, Mina Brees updates,
Ralph and Karen Guastaferro joins Balloon Boy in post Wife Swap trouble.
Ralph and Karen Guastaferro of Amherst came to fame in January last year for their appearance on Wife Swap in which Angie Boss from Indiana went to join Ralph and Alicia.
Now Ralph, 62, and Karen, 55, have confessed to laundering $1.2 million in a Canadian telemarketing scheme. He faces 46-57 months and she faces 16 months. They have pleaded guilty to felony charges.
But the bigger crime? Letting Alicia have not one, not two, but three cellphones on the trainwreck episode of Wife Swap.
Wife Swap said of the family the following:
“New York mom Karen Guastaferro (54) has made her home fit for a queen — a pageant queen that is. A former pageant contestant herself, Karen waits on her daughter Alicia (15) hand and foot. Their home is a shrine to beauty, pageant trophies and sparkle. Alicia has been winning pageants since she was 11 months old and says she “feels sorry for anyone who’s not gorgeous.”
Ralph and Karen Guastaferro, Mina Brees was first posted on November 21, 2009 at 9:23 pm.
Mina Brees
Mina Brees updates, The death of the mother of New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees has been ruled a suicide.
Mina Brees, an attorney from Austin, Texas, died Aug. 7 while visiting Colorado. Grand County coroner Brenda Bock concluded this week that the 59-year-old Brees died of a prescription drug overdose and ruled the death a suicide.
Bock said Brees died while staying at the home of a friend in Granby near Rocky Mountain National Park.
It took longer than three months for autopsy results to be released, but Bock said that’s typical for cases involving toxicology tests.
The Austin American Statesman reported that three days before Brees died, the Texas attorney general’s office subpoenaed her business records.
She had allegedly sent letters to some restaurants in Austin and Houston stating that they had lost their rights to use their names to a company she represented, Chicksports, but they could win the rights back by paying up to $25,000. She was also the president of Chicksports but that wasn’t mentioned in the letter.
Relations between Drew Brees and his mother were strained at times and the quarterback asked her to stop using his picture in TV commercials touting her candidacy for a Texas appeals court seat in 2006.
Mina Brees said she had not anticipated upsetting her son and sent out replacement commercials omitting mention of him.
At the time, Drew Brees called his relationship with his mother “nonexistent,” saying it crumbled six years earlier when he refused to hire her as his agent.
Austin attorney Marty Akins, the brother of Minda Brees, declined comment late Friday.
Mina Brees was first posted on November 21, 2009 at 10:46 am.
