Michaele and Tareq Salahi Cancel Larry King Appearance, Want Big Money

The Salahis, who attended last week's White House state dinner without an invitation, have been very public about their social life in Washington, DC but have a long record of lawsuits and unpaid bills. Many from the bankruptcy of the family vineyard.

On the heels of the apparent cancellation of their appearance on an upcoming Larry King Live show on CNN, the word is out that Michaele and Tareq Salahi are asking for 'hundreds of thousands of dollars' to be interviewed on national television.

Perhaps they are now friends with Jon Gosselin who asks for thousands of dollars to be seen on television.

An article in the New York Times indicated that a television network executive, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the network does not publicly comment on payments, said the couple’s asking price for an interview was in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. “They are asking for best offers from all the networks,” the executive said.

Michaele Salahi is being considered for a role as a cast member on Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of D.C.” Mr. Salahi was chief executive of Oasis Winery, a now-bankrupt winery in Virginia that his father started in the 1970s.

On the day of the state dinner, Mrs. Salahi went to the posh Erwin Gomez salon to have her hair done, followed into the salon by a BRAVO camera crew. This is the same salon that did her hair and makeup for her wedding. She has yet to pay a tab for thousands of dollars to the salon for that event and seems to feel that the salon should comp her service.

Tthe salon's creative director, James Packard-Gomez,asked Mrs. Salahi to show him her White House invitation and she could not produce it.

“My guests pretty much always show me the invitation when it’s the hottest party in town,” Mr. Packard-Gomez said in a NY Times report. “I know a lot of guests that were on the ‘A list’ that were not invited. So why was she?”

The Secret Service, which has said that Michaele and Tareq Salahi should not have been let in, acknowledged that officials at the White House east gate “did not follow proper procedures” to confirm that Mr. and Mrs. Salahi were on the list of invited guests.

Written by Cheryl Phillips
HULIQ.com

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