RHONJ: What We Know About Danielle's 21 Engagements & 3 Marriages
Danielle Staub from The Real Housewives of New Jersey is known for her multiple engagements and marriages. Learn more about her relationships.
Danielle Staub, a former Real Housewives of New Jersey star, became well-known for her love life when she started on the show in season 1. Teresa Giudice famously flipped a table, shouting about the 19 men Danielle has been engaged to.
Since Danielle Staub rose to fame, she has added another two engagements to her list of past loves. This brings her to a total of 21 engagements. Out of those 21 engagements, 3 have ended in marriage. Here are some of the men Danielle has been engaged to (and/or married to) in the past.
Before Danielle became Danielle Staub, she was married to her first husband, Kevin Maher. The former couple tied the knot in October 1986, while he was still married to another woman, as reported by eCelebritySpy. Maher was a former FBI informant and married Danielle when she was only 24 years old. After only a year of marriage, the couple decided it wasn't going to work out and went forward with a divorce, according to People. Throughout their entire time together, Kevin and Danielle had a very unhealthy relationship. Once they decided to get a divorce, the two made some wild accusations about each other. Kevin admitted that not a day went by where he and Danielle weren't using cocaine. Danielle then accused him of violent behavior, including physical abuse, rape, killing their dog. and pointing a gun at her. Kevin fought back, labeling her allegedly psychotic, violent, nymphomaniac, physically aggressive, and a pathological liar. He revealed he was only violent when she was violent with him.
Danielle's accusations prompted Maher to file a $5 million defamation lawsuit against her. Kevin has been open about his past in his biography, "Cop Without A Badge." See her ex below:
Six years after her divorce from Maher, Danielle went on to marry her second husband, Thomas Staub. The couple was married for 14 years and had two daughters together. Their eldest child Christine was born in 1994 and their youngest Jillian was born in 1998. After 14 years of marriage and two children together, Danielle and Thomas filed for divorce in 2007, just two years before Danielle started on RHONJ. According to Celebrity Net Worth, Thomas is a businessman who has accumulated an estimated net worth of $6 million.
Thomas earned his millions after becoming the CFO (later CEO) of Aerobics Inc., his family business that manufactured pacemaker treadmills. He and his brother bought the company from their father but later sold it to a private equity firm, which moved production overseas. The firm filed for bankruptcy in 2010, prompting the brothers to restart the company with the help of an investor. The name was changed to PaceMaster LLC. Unfortunately, things did not work out and the company shut its doors for good in 2011. In 2012, Thomas began working with Gym Source and continues to work for the company, as the Vice-President of Sales and Operations.
Danielle opened up about her past relationship with Thomas in an excerpt from her book, Naked Truth. She revealed that her marriage to Thomas seemed great on the outside, but behind closed doors, she and Thomas were becoming emotionally distant. She decided she did not want to be with someone who was providing for her financially but failing to meet her needs emotionally. Shortly after their divorce, Thomas met his wife Rebecca. Thomas and Rebecca share a son.
According to RealHousewives.net, Marty is an entrepreneur, former baseball player, and investment banking managing director. Before he became an investment banker, Marty, who is now 68, briefly played for the Old Yankees baseball team. After his baseball career, he worked for Credit Suisse. He is now an investment banking managing director for AG Becker Inc.
Before he met Danielle, he married his first wife Gail Marie Sincavage in 1979. The date of their divorce remains a mystery, but they did welcome three children (Allison, David, and Lauren) while they were married. Danielle began dating Marty in April 2016 and they became engaged less than a year later, in May 2017. Another year later, the couple got married on the beach in the Bahamas. Their wedding was featured on RHONJ and showed Danielle Staub and Marty at odds over a few family situations, as well as the wedding itself. Just three months after they wed, the couple filed for divorce. The former couple had an intense RHONJ divorce, with Marty claiming that Danielle tried to stab him, and Danielle claiming that Marty was physically and emotionally abusing her. Their divorce was finalized in February 2019.
Shortly after her divorce was finalized with Marty, Danielle met Oliver and the two were set to marry on March 14, 2019. The couple met in October 2018, when Oliver was dating a friend of Danielle's. After he broke it off with his then-girlfriend, he began to pursue Danielle. They got engaged while on a tropical getaway to the Cheval Blanc hotel in St. Barts. The two planned to get hitched within days of getting engaged, but broke it off before they made it to the altar.
So, who is Oliver? He is a German and French businessman who works as the managing director of Speyside Equity, according to Cheat Sheet. Oliver earned J.D. and Ph.D degrees from Ludwig Maximilians Universität München in Germany. Not only is Oliver successful in his own right, but he also comes from royalty, as he is known as the Duke of Provence. His family owns 15 vineyards and two castles in the South of France, according to BravoTV. Before his engagement to Danielle, Oliver was married to his ex-wife for an undetermined amount of time. He shares a 12-year-old child with her.
Danielle's had quite a few men fall in love with her in the past. From her first marriage to her last failed engagement, Daniele is clearly not the poster woman for successful relationships. Now, fans are waiting for The Real Housewives of New Jersey alum's 22nd engagement!
Sources: People, eCelebritySpy, Celebrity Net Worth, RealHousewives.net, Cheat Sheet, BravoTV