Kelly Bensimon, New "Real Housewife," Arrested For Assaulting Boyfriend

NEW YORK — A model who appears on Bravo's "The Real Housewives of New York City" is facing charges that she punched an ex-boyfriend and left a bloody gash on his face.

Kelly Killoren Bensimon, 40, was arrested in Manhattan last week on a misdemeanor assault charge after her 30-year-old ex-boyfriend Nicholas Stefanov told police she assaulted him.

Killoren Bensimon surrendered Thursday, two days after the alleged assault. A misdemeanor complaint says she hit Stefanov with her fist in her apartment.

She was released without bail after her arraignment on a third-degree assault charge.

Her lawyer, Stephen Turano, didn't return a call for comment, but the Daily News quoted him as saying she denies the allegations. He called Stefanov "a jilted lover."

Stefanov told the Daily News that he still loves Killoren Bensimon. He said the pressure of being on the hit reality TV show caused her to snap and punch him during an argument.

He said she "had the courtesy to take her (engagement) ring off first," the News reported, adding she also returned it to him that night.

Stefanov's friends told the New York Post he went to his hometown of Pittsburgh because he was embarrassed to be seen in New York with a black eye and cut face.

Killoren Bensimon was married to French photographer Gilles Bensimon until 2006. They have two daughters, ages 10 and 8. She has modeled for Elle, Mademoiselle, Cosmopolitan and Harper's Bazaar, and has edited several magazines.

Comments

[starrianna]

She looks older than 40.

[azizabronze]

shocking.!
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[dissanayake]

A 'has- been 'dried out old broad.

[BetterAmerica]

I used to want to live in the Hamptons until I saw the Housewives of NYC. They are so superficial, petty and 2 faced. I couldn't stand it.

[DeeOne1]

I don't believe she hit him. It sounds made up. I think that the whole took the engagement ring off sounds fishy. How many people are left handed, like 5%?

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[starboy126]

I guess with this economic climate, rich people are going to jail left & right!!!!

[ltva]

I don't get it why is this domestic abuse incident not being reported the same as the c brown/rihanna incident? People don't want to admit that females today are just as, if not more, aggressive than men. Basically, the way this story is written is almost comedy; almost saying that it is okay for a woman to hit a man however, if he had hit her back he would be arrested on felony charges. This double standard is sickening. If you hit someone expect to get hit back be it a male or female.

[prtypoison]

OMG I was thinking the same thing and I have been arguing about the double standards in domestic violence cases and this proves my point. She didn't say he was hitting on her but she was released without bail after her arraignment on a third-degree assault charge, WTF, WTF. Is it because Chris Brown is black or what.

[rhubardpi]

If she would give me 2 minutes of her time I would let her take a baseball bat to me for 2.........months

[DEANNADST6]

Where's all the DV advocates?? I don't hear the anger or see the passion on this story.....

ChrisBrown and Rihanna...­..........­...burn them, burn them, burn them. But, no this story doesn't compare, huh? You are all double standard..­....where'­s the anger??

TMZ....where is the police report? Where is the victim picture? Can we please see his bruises or him beat up by this woman!!!!! JNo...too wimpy of a story???

Dag, can we get outrage.....sign a pettition to stop Bravo form airing this show...no way should we be subjected of watching this batterer.

And, let's find out where she makes her money and make sure her career is over, too.


You all are a bunch of fakes.......

[prtypoison]

enough said!!!!!!

[Joye]

I think someone should check on her children. If she beat her boyfriend..... Not much has been made, as far as the media is concerned. She is just as bad as Chris Brown...

[hmmmmmer]

We watch it for the hoot it is, what a bunch of shallow rich people. They really do give the socially inept a bad name.

[ekrub]

Her horse doesn't like her. That tells me all I need to know.

[OtayPanky]

If he's done with Rhianna, mebbe Chris Brown and her could hook up.

[bartonfink]

pure class. all the more fun knowing true new yorkers are nothing like these morons, who are simply pathologically status-conscious mannequins pretending to represent something that exists solely within the very limited parameters of their collective "mind"

could be the "real housewives of debuque for all it's worth

[DeAnnaClaudette]

And she seemed so nice on the show... It's always the quiet ones!

[sababa]

It's because she seemed "too nice".