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Tareq Salahi Making Millions Off Of Divorce?

Tareq Michaele Salahi Divorce

First Posted: 01/02/12 03:22 PM ET Updated: 01/02/12 03:55 PM ET

Just days after Tareq Salahi's wife, Michaele Salahi, left him for Journey guitarist Neal Schon, insiders claim that Tareq had already begun profiting from the split. Since September, he has reportedly earned an estimated $100,000 in paid interviews.

"Tareq emailed me days after Michaele left saying Neal was going to suffer huge from this financially and that we needed to figure out how to make millions off of [the split]," a source close to Tareq tells me. "Tareq was the controlling and the calculating one. Everyone close to Michaele is very happy she got away from him."

"When they were together, Michaele was not allowed to handle any of her own business dealings," the source says. "Tareq would do anything for money, and now that Michaele is gone, he lost his paycheck and is desperate. Tareq put his own divorce documents in the press just so he could comment for money."

But Tareq denies these allegations.

"I don't know how anyone can profit from a divorce," Tareq tells HuffPost. "Michaele destroyed us, and the truth is she is selling interviews which, in fact, will be proved once all the emails and texts are subpoenaed. I can't wait for the jury trial and to close this painful chapter in my life."

Since their split Tareq has been very vocal about his wife's "calculating and devious" ways. Hopefully both halves of this couple will be able to move on and keep one another's names out of the press once their divorce is finalized.

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Just days after Tareq Salahi's wife, Michaele Salahi, left him for Journey guitarist Neal Schon, insiders claim that Tareq had already begun profiting from the split. Since September, he has reportedl...
Just days after Tareq Salahi's wife, Michaele Salahi, left him for Journey guitarist Neal Schon, insiders claim that Tareq had already begun profiting from the split. Since September, he has reportedl...
 
 
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02:53 PM on 01/03/2012
well isn't this story just giving them more publicity? I'm sorry I clicked on the link
02:40 PM on 01/03/2012
HuffPost does not pay for interviews..wow, sounds so serious and principled. Nice disclosure. How about HuffPost does not pay for the news it pulls from the newspapers and other news outlets...
12:31 PM on 01/26/2012
well said
01:37 PM on 01/03/2012
Only in America can someone be on the front page of HuffPost because they deliberately violated national security three years ago. Next!
01:04 PM on 01/03/2012
I don't know who these people are, so that would = I don't care!!!!! (Yawning)
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macmanchgo
"You don't need a weatherman...."
12:26 PM on 01/03/2012
Read the comments, everyone despises these characters, which just goes to show you that being a celebrity is about drawing a reaction, any reaction, and being publicly despised is apparently a simple and effective way of getting rich in this country.
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newworldman777
What would our future 7th generation think of us?
12:08 PM on 01/03/2012
How depressing it must be for both of those clowns, to not be in the news every day. How depressing it is for the rest of us, that we live in a country that would ever allow such clowns to become a news story to begin with. How about let's just all make both of them yesterday's news and forget them?
11:37 AM on 01/03/2012
"Off of" is very bad grammar.
11:32 AM on 01/03/2012
Rich whitemen's taste in broads is always funny. This chick looks like a pumkin headed scarecrow, but, all she has to do is have blond hair and some rich white dude will finance her life style. Hard working educated white ladies, forget them fools, come on over to the dark side. At least you can be sure one area will get well taken care of. Lol
11:32 AM on 01/03/2012
LOL…. shocker that this gal is a S, cank.

Sweet picture with Trey Anastasio from Phish though.
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11:05 AM on 01/03/2012
Turned here for a few seconds to say "I don't care about this jokester Salahi ex-pair. Bye.
Sandmanj
Tread gently. Mother nature is pregnant.
10:50 AM on 01/03/2012
Two of the most disgusting excuses for human beings on the planet.
10:37 AM on 01/03/2012
If a contest was held to vote on 'Who Is The Worst' in this entire trumped up sage - both would win! What truly disgusting people.
10:18 AM on 01/03/2012
The Salahis are just two of many celebrities who have found the golden goose - getting paid for doing nothing valuable or productive. This whole phenomenon will continue as long as American viewers keep tuning into reality TV shows that are thinly veiled promotional vehicles for shoddy (yet overpriced) merchandise or bad music that would otherwise never have been recorded.

Of course viewers need escapism programming, especially in such hard economic times. Watching James Bond is escapism, an hour of whining narcissists isn't.
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09:16 PM on 01/03/2012
Well put. Well said.
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Kasado
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10:17 AM on 01/03/2012
Who are these people and why do the matter ?
10:17 AM on 01/03/2012
I never knew Neal Schon was a midget.