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Community Service Deal For Kelly Bensimon
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Jen Chung
Published Jun 8, 2009
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Back in March, Real Housewife Kelly Bensimon was charged with beating up her boyfriend. But now her record will be wiped clean if she serves two days of community service and stays on the straight and narrow. Bensimon said she was pleased with the deal, "Justice was served." While battered boyfriend Nicholas Stefanov previously said he'd like to get back together, Bensimon said that's not happening, repeating her lawyer's earlier refrain that she was trying to get him to leave her apartment (hence pushing him so hard that he told the tabloids, "My injuries are worse than Rihanna's - and Chris Brown was charged with two felonies"). The Columbia graduate also posed the ultimate Deep Thought, "Is it good for your career when bad things happen to good people?"
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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