On the surface, Bravo's "Real Housewives" franchise allows its audiences to maintain an air of bemused distance from its subjects: Look. Here are some wealthy ladies with a lot of free time for shopping and bickering with
their spouses and each other. They even sometimes permit dogs to drink out of champagne goblets right at the dinner table....
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Estranged husband of "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Taylor Armstrong. For the first time since the death, three of the "Beverly Hills Housewives" (Adrienne Maloof, Kyle Richards and Lisa Vanderpump) and show executive producer Douglas Ross sat down with TODAY's Savannah Guthrie for a sobering interview about the suicide and its aftereffects.
