Andy Cohen is weighing in on the drama between Mauricio Umasnky and the Hiltons after Paris Hilton slammed Mauricio’s comments about her father on his Netflix show.
The Bravo head honcho defend Mauricio Umansky on his SiriusXM show, Radio Andy, insisting that it was Mauricio’s “story to tell.”
“I’m seeing online a lot of people saying that I or Bravo should be pissed about Mauricio revealing stuff on Netflix on his show,” Andy Cohen said.
“People think, ‘Oh, Bravo should be furious. Why is he saying this on his show?’ Well, it’s his show on Netflix!”
In a preview for an upcoming episode of Buying Beverly Hills, Mauricio Umansky opens up about his fallout with the Hilton family which occurred when he left their Hilton & Hyland real estate company.
In the clip, Mauricio Umansky calls out brother-in-law Rick Hilton for screwing him over in the real estate business.
He explains that his fallout with Rick Hilton stems from his not being made a partner in the latter’s real estate agency, Hyland and Hilton, which ultimately led to him leaving to open his own real estate company, The Agency.
“I think I got kind of f–ked by Hilton & Hyland,” the real estate mogul revealed in a sneak peek of BBH released on Tuesday.
“And when I say f–ked, you know, like, today I’m happy, but there was a hundred agents at Hilton & Hyland. They did a billion dollars for the first time a year. I was 19.6 percent of their production.”
According to Mauricio, he thought he deserved to be made partner due to the success he brought to his brother-in-law’s real estate company.
“I went to Rick, and I said, ‘I’d really like equity, right, and to be a partner,” he explained to several pals and colleagues.
However, Umansky was ultimately told “no” after Rick Hilton spoke with his co-founder Jeff Hyland about making Mauricio a partner.
As a result, the 53-year-old knew he had to leave Hilton & Hyland and create his own real estate company, but before doing so, he ran the idea past his now-estranged wife, Kyle Richards, because he believed it might cause drama within the family.
“’This is really going to cause a lot of stress between you, your sister and your family, and I don’t want to do this move of leaving and starting a company if you’re not comfortable,’” Mauricio recalls telling Kyle, who is Kathy Hilton‘s youngest sister.
After Kyle gave Mauricio Umansky her seal of approval, he created The Agency, in 2011, which has become one of the top real estate agencies in the world and even has its own reality show, Buying Beverly Hills.
The bombshell prompted Paris Hilton to speak out in defense of her dad on social media.
“My father is a consummate gentleman and has always taken the higher road. He would never speak negatively about his family-especially in the press,” Paris wrote in the comments section of Queens of Bravo’s Instagram account.
“He would never speak negatively about his family- especially in the press,” the 43-year-old star continued. “Frankly we are all sick of him using the Hilton name every chance he gets to plug his lame show. It is enough already.”
On his SirusXM show, Andy Cohen also revealed that Kathy Hilton and Kyle Richards discussed this bit of long-standing family drama during part three of the RHOBH reunion.
“We get Kathy and Kyle’s side of the story tonight on the Beverly Hills reunion,” he shared.
He continued, “There are a lot of people who are saying, I’m seeing online a lot of people saying that I or Bravo should be pissed about Mauricio revealing stuff on Netflix on his show, but I would say a lot of what he’s revealing is his story to tell and a lot and what Kyle is revealing on Beverly Hills is her side of the story.”
“I think that in the case of this Hilton and Highland stuff, I can’t speak for Kyle on any level, but my gut is that there was probably so far she wanted to go on her show because she didn’t want to further complicate an already complicated relationship with her sister,” he added.
So what did Kathy and Kyle have to say about Mauricio and Rick’s business drama?
According to Kathy, Mauricio called Rick on a Thursday to tell him he was leaving Hilton & Hyland the next day. She says Rick asked him not to steal any agents or staff members, noting that Mauricio poached “a few.”
This created a divide between Kathy and Kyle.
As for Kyle, she shut down the conversation, noting that she didn’t want to discuss business.
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RHOBH is expected to return to Bravo in late 2024 or early 2025.
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