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‘Real Housewives’ Star Takes Family Drama Straight To The White House

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Teresa Giudice walked into the White House on Friday with Columbus Day pageantry out front and a much more personal family campaign hanging over the visit.

The “Real Housewives of New Jersey” star and Gia, her eldest daughter, joined a White House celebration tied to Italian-American heritage while still hoping President Donald Trump will help reopen the door for Joe Giudice to return to the United States.

Joe has been outside the country since 2019, when his fraud case ended not just with prison time, but with deportation to Italy.

The case against Joe included $5 million in loans obtained through falsified documents and $1 million in income that was not reported to the IRS. He spent 41 months in federal prison, while Teresa spent 11 months behind bars in the same case.

Joe’s immigration status turned the end of his prison term into another separation from his family, with ICE custody coming before his removal to Italy.

Teresa and Joe later divorced, but she has continued pushing for the father of her daughters to be allowed back into America.

“Even though Joe and I are not together, I would love for him to come back to America,” Teresa said. “I feel like he does belong here. He’s been here since he was one… And it was paperwork that he went away for. I’m hopeful too, that he comes back.”

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Gia made her father’s case public in July 2025, posting a social media video with the letter she had written to Trump.

“My name is Gia Giudice. I’m the daughter of Joe Giudice, and today I’m using my voice for something deeply personal,” Gia said in the video. “My dad was deported over four years ago. Since then, our family has lived in an emotional limbo. No matter how strong we try to be, the absence of a father, of a parent, is something that never stops hurting.”

Trump’s pardons for Todd and Julie Chrisley gave Gia a reality-TV precedent to point to as she asked for the same kind of relief.

The Chrisleys, another family made famous on television, had fraud and tax-evasion convictions before Trump wiped away their punishment.

“Watching the Chrisley family receive a second chance inspired me,” Gia said. “It showed me that people can be forgiven, that families could be restored and that sometimes the justice system has room for grace. That gave me hope.”

Trump called the Chrisleys’ sentence “a terrible thing.” Savannah Chrisley, their daughter, had backed Trump’s election during a 2024 Republican National Convention speech that also criticized the U.S. justice system.

Deputy Assistant to the President Lynne Patton responded to Teresa and Gia’s White House appearance by stressing that she was not the person deciding pardon cases, even as she voiced support for second chances.

“I am not in charge of pardons. Nor do I decide who receives them,” Patton wrote. “However, I will say this, I believe deeply in second chances.”

Another celebrity pardon request has been playing out far differently around Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Combs, 56, has also asked Trump for mercy, but his latest prison headline involved an injury and ambulance ride rather than movement toward clemency.

Early Saturday, Combs left FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey by ambulance after suffering a head injury, TMZ reported.

People later cited a source who said Combs had been brought to a hospital, and he was back at the prison later that day. How Combs was hurt has not been made clear.

“We are aware of the reports concerning Sean Combs and are working to confirm the circumstances,” Combs’ spokesperson Juda Engelmayer said. “Sean’s health and well-being are our immediate concern, and we appreciate everyone who has reached out.”

Before the medical scare, NBC News had published allegations that Combs’ prison life included inmate help with cooking, cleaning and massages.

Sources cited by NBC also accused Combs of using contraband phones to get onto Instagram and view sexually explicit photos sent by a former girlfriend. The same report said he got Remeron, an antidepressant known inside as “rem-roms,” from other inmates.

NBC’s sources also claimed guards brought Hennessy into the facility on weekends for Combs and a small group of inmates.

TMZ later reported that the allegations were followed by Combs being moved to the prison’s special housing unit, commonly known as solitary confinement.

Combs’ federal sentence came from a July 2025 verdict on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, which together carried up to 20 years in prison. The jury did not convict him on the sex trafficking and racketeering charges.

Prosecutors wanted a sentence of more than 11 years and labeled Combs “unrepentant.” The judge gave him 50 months last October.

Combs has taken his conviction and punishment to the Second Circuit, which heard arguments in April.

Trump had already put public distance between himself and Combs’ pardon bid. In January, despite Combs’ written request, Trump said he was not considering one.

At a May 2025 press briefing, Trump left room to review facts in theory while making clear that he and Combs had not been in contact for years.

“I haven’t seen him, I haven’t spoken to him for years,” Trump said. “I don’t know. I would certainly look at the facts. If I think somebody was mistreated it wouldn’t matter whether they like me or don’t.”

Trump described Combs as once friendly toward him, then said that changed after his 2016 presidential run.

“I know they’re thinking about it,” Trump said of Combs’ team asking for a pardon. “I think people have been very close to asking.”

Trump returned to that broken relationship in another interview, saying politics made the pardon question harder.

“I got along with him great. Seemed like a nice guy. I didn’t know him well. But when I ran for office, he was very hostile. … It’s hard,” Trump said.

“We’re human beings. We don’t like to have things cloud our judgment, right? But when you knew someone and you were fine and then you run for office and he made some terrible statements. So, I don’t know. It’s more difficult,” he added. “Makes it more, I’m being honest, [makes it more difficult to do].”

Before the 2020 election, Combs said “White men like Trump need to be banished” and called it the “No. 1 priority” to get Trump out of office.

This week, Newsmax put the pardon question to Trump as “more likely a no.”

“I would say so,” Trump replied.

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