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Kelly Bensimon, the 40-year old former model, socialite, scribe of some bikini book, and one of the unmarried Real Housewives on the Bravo reality show is giving herself a new title: victim. The NY Post reports that she claimed to be innocent at a pretrial hearing yesterday regarding the beating she allegedly gave her ex-boyfriend Nick Stefanov earlier this month in her SoHo digs. Her lawyer told the paper, "The guy wouldn't leave her apartment. He pushed and shoved her, then he calls the police. You're entitled to push him out of your apartment [if he doesn't voluntarily leave]." Bensimon claims she's received threatening emails from the ex, one saying "I'm going to make your life misery." Meanwhile, Stefanov wants the order of protection extended. If convicted of the misdemeanor third-degree assault charges, Bensimon could face a year behind bars. Maybe she can be cellmates with the other alleged Bravo boyfriend beater Kenley.

Arguably the most hated housewives of the Real Housewives series are returning to the small screen tonight—and now that we're all tightening the pursestrings their livin' large lifestyle will be sure to evoke even more hatred! Housewife Jill Zarin told the Post, "You're gonna see some [expensive] toys come out, unfortunately. We filmed the show before the recession happened." But has the "cougar of conspicuous consumption" changed her ways to fit the economic downturn? She says that these days she's cooking at home with Fresh Direct groceries, has noticed a drop in sales at her Allen Street emporium Zarin's Fabric Warehouse and her and the hubby sold their East Hampton home over a year ago. Plus she told Fox: "What was hard for me was giving up my live-in maid five days a week." It's like one step away from a breadline over there. Meanwhile, the folks over at EW wonder if viewers will tune in or drop out, in an article titled: "Critic to The Real Housewives of New York City: drop dead."