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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This season of the &#8220;Real Housewives of New York City&#8221; features one new cast member, <strong>Leah McSweeney</strong>.</p><p>Or are there two newbies on the block?</p><p>Elyse Slaine, described only as &#8220;Ramona&#8217;s friend&#8221; in on-screen captions, has made appearances on almost every episode since the 12th season kicked off in April.</p><p>&#8220;This whole thing happened by accident. I never auditioned to be on the show,” Slaine told an <strong>Us Weekly</strong> podcast. &#8220;I was just catching up with Ramona [Singer] and the two girls she was filming with in the first episode. The producers put a microphone on me and said &#8216;Get in there.&#8217; So I did.&#8221;</p><p>Apparently, the Bravo team liked her appearance. &#8220;They invited me back again. They just sort of kept inviting me, so I just sort of kept showing up whenever I could,&#8221; said Slaine, 56. &#8220;Then eventually, they gave me a contract.”</p><p>Slaine&#8217;s roots go deep with some of the other &#8220;RHONY&#8221; cast members. 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Luann de Lesseps and I have crossed paths many times, but I wouldn’t say we were ever friends. I’m actually closest with Leah now,&#8221; Slaine told celebrity news site <strong>All About the Tea</strong>.</p><p>She&#8217;s <strong>been referred to</strong> as a &#8220;femme fatale&#8221; and &#8220;one of Wall Street&#8217;s &#8216;most fascinating first wives.&#8217; &#8221; &#8220;I was a bond trader at Cantor Fitzgerald,&#8221; she told the blog. &#8220;I started my career as a financial journalist at Reuters, and now I day trade.&#8221;</p><p>In 2009, Slaine&#8217;s ex-husband David, a Galleon Group hedge fund employee, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and securities fraud. The two have a 24-year-old daughter, Nicole.</p><figure id="attachment_15705734"  class="wp-caption aligncenter"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/05/elyse-slaine-1_-copy.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/05/elyse-slaine-1_-copy.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/05/elyse-slaine-1_-copy.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Slaine, who does not have a cast bio on the “RHONY” website, apparently has been taken aback by viewers’ online comments.</span><span class="credit">Getty Images</span></figcaption></figure><p>She moved on to date Donald Drapkin, chairman of Casablanca Capital, though they split in 2014. While together, the couple purchased a three-bedroom duplex at 700 Park Ave. for $4.2 million, which she reportedly kept after the split, <strong>according to Page Six</strong>.</p><p>That year, <strong>protesters flocked outside her home</strong> after her housekeeper of 15 years, Marichu De Sesto, accused Slaine of firing her for requesting time off for medical appointments.</p><p>&#8220;Ms. De Sesto quit — she was not fired — after being told that she could not take off a weekend that she had previously agreed to work,&#8221; a spokesperson for Slaine said at the time.</p><p>Drapkin died in 2017 following a skiing accident, and Slaine <strong>sued his children</strong> for trying to stop her from keeping the Park Avenue apartment. The <strong>case was dismissed</strong> months later.</p><p>She married Reinhold Gebert, an executive at Teza Capital Management, in 2018.</p><p>Slaine, who does not have a cast bio on the &#8220;RHONY&#8221; website, apparently has been taken aback by viewers&#8217; online comments. &#8220;Reading some of these comments &#8230; a few of you are mean enough to get an Apple,&#8221; she <a href="https://twitter.com/SlaineElyse/status/1258598005701296133?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">wrote on Twitter</a> in early May, referencing a comment Singer made about de Lesseps&#8217; friend Barbara Kavovit, who, like Slaine, made appearances on the show last season.</p><p>&#8220;She&#8217;s just a friend, so she&#8217;s not a new housewife. They&#8217;re not giving her an apple or anything,&#8221; <strong>Singer said</strong> at the time.</p><p>So far on the show, Slaine&#8217;s made some waves, such as calling Morgan an &#8220;accessory&#8221; to her ex-husband, John Adams Morgan. &#8220;I was a partner with my husband,&#8221; an apparently intoxicated Morgan yelled back. &#8220;You know me — why are you saying that?&#8221;</p><p>Slaine pops up in several not-yet-aired scenes in the expletive- and shout-filled Season 12 trailer, so expect to see more of her as the season goes on.</p><p><span class="embed-youtube" ><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DnSYU9PzL8Y?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" width="600" height="315"></iframe></span></p>]]></content:encoded>
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