Real Housewives of SLC is back for season two

"The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City." Photo: courtesy of Bravo Media

PARK CITY, Utah. — “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City”, a Bravo reality television show, is scheduled to air its premiere episode of the second season on Sunday night, September 12. There is a new housewife cast member in the new season.

Many scenes in the first season were shot in and around Park City including highlighting the Sundance Film Festival. Jen Shaw, one of the castmates has a home in Park City as does another housewife, Meredith Marks, who also has a store on Main Street in Park City. 

Drama within the drama occurred when Shaw was arrested in March. She later pled not guilty in a fraud case. She is accused of ripping off hundreds of people by offering fraud tax and other services in a scheme running from 2012 to 2021, prosecutors said in an indictment. Many of the victims were over 55 and didn’t own computers.

Agents searching her home found debit cards from the account of a shell company formed as part of the scheme, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Kiersten Fletcher to the Associated Press (AP).

Shah and a co-defendant, Stuart Smith, had been  released only on conditions barring contact with each other, traveling outside of Utah or engaging in telemarketing. Smith, who has appeared as Shah’s assistant on the show, also pleaded not guilty in April.

Shah remains free under an order to post a $1 million bond secured by $250,000 in cash or property and co-signed by two other people. Her lawyers had called the requirement to put up property excessive because she’s too famous and eager to fight the charges to try to slip away.

She “generated and sold ‘lead lists’ of innocent individuals for other members of their scheme to repeatedly scam,” prosecutors said. “In actual reality and as alleged, the so-called business opportunities pushed on the victims by Shah, Smith and their co-conspirators were just fraudulent schemes, motivated by greed, to steal victims’ money”, said the AP.

A trial date has been set for Oct. 18 in Manhattan.