Joe Gorga Stands By Shouting Match With Freeloading Tenant!
Real Housewives of New Jersey husband, Joe Gorga, has no regrets over his exposed screaming match with a tenant, over an unpaid rent dispute.
“It’s just an excuse to just beat the system. That’s why I’m upset,” Joe said in a video obtained by TMZ Wednesday.
“I just don’t do well with people that don’t do the right thing in life and don’t hustle and don’t work and don’t try, and so I’m gonna stand by how I handled it,” Joe explained.
Joe, who admitted that he “couldn’t hold [his] anger in,” added that his goal was to make his tenant “feel exactly the way he made me feel.”
“You just don’t do that,” the Bravo personality said in the nearly three-minute video. “The first thing you do is pay for the roof over your head, and he’s the type of guy that likes to take advantage and scam the system.”
Watch the video below!
Joe, who referred to the man as a “terrible terrible tenant,” alleged that he was owed $89k in unpaid rent after the tenant stopped making rent payments only three months after signing the lease.
“You know what else got me mad is that the man owes me money, you’d think he’d answer the phone,” he continued. “I’ve called this guy numerous times. [For] years, he’s been avoiding me. [He] doesn’t even have the decency to pick up the phone and talk to me.”
On Monday, TMZ published video footage of the explosive exchange, during which Joe shouted—“F–king loser, f–king loser, pay your f–king rent, a–hole. Call me f–king Daddy, motherf–er, because I’ve been supporting you for four and a half years.”
The tenant claimed that Joe collected his money in COVID-19 relief payments from the state. He also said that he only owed the reality star rent payments from January to the present. The man claimed that he was trying to financially recover after losing his restaurant job during the pandemic.
Joe’s lawyer, W. Peter Rogan, told the outlet that his client’s tenant had racked up almost $50k in unpaid rent debt, since 2018. He confirmed that Joe received about $40k in emergency payments from the state. Joe’s rep, Mike Martocci, said that Joe, 42, initially had sympathy for the man and didn’t want to evict him. He clarified that they had since filed eviction papers.
The tenant was the one who began filming the screaming match, but Joe later moved the man’s car door to do the same. The man warned the dad of three that he’d go to the police if he approached him again.
“Next time don’t come at me with a sledgehammer, I’m going to put a restraining order,” the tenant warned Joe.
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