Remember Michaele Salahi? She and hubby Tareq Salahi were famous (or rather infamous) for crashing the President Obama’s state dinner in 2009. And as luck would have it, she then landed on “Real Housewives of D.C.”
Today, hubby Tareq’s manager told CNN that his wife had been missing since Tuesday. Manager Gina Rodriguez said, “It is our belief as of last night Michaele Salahi may have been kidnapped or abducted and is being held under duress and forced to tell persons, including authorities, she is OK.”
Tareq last saw his wife at 11 a.m. on Tuesday at their home. She was going have her hair done then a dance class, but she missed both appointments. Next time Tareq heard from her was at 7 p.m. that night when she called from a cell phone with an Oregon number. Michaele said she was going to visit her mother, but her mother said they hadn’t planned a visit and Michaele never showed up.
Sounds a bit disconcerting, doesn’t it? Any husband would be concerned and upset?
Well, as it turns out, she hasn’t been kidnapped. Michaele turned up in my home city of Memphis today – with Journey guitarist Neil Schon who is touring with his band. Yeah, that one made me shake my head too!
According to Schon’s management company, she’s fine. She told Sherriff Danny McEathron of Warren County, Va. that she is “with a good friend and was where she wanted to be.” Hum, must be a really good friend to go off with him and not tell her husband.
Still, Tareq was suspicious that Michaele was being forced to say she was okay. This is starting to sound like a bad Harlequin novel – “woman kidnapped by a rock star and forced against her will to travel with him while her loving husband desperately pleas for her safety.”
Anyhow, McEathron said she was “calm, was engaged in conversation, and assured the deputy that she had left the residence with a good friend and was where she wanted to be.” She also informed McEathron that she did not want her husband to know where she was. Oh.
Still, investigators are trying to reach Michaele again, just to assure that she is safe.