Jules Wainstein is going through a very public divorce with her husband Michael, who stars with her on Real Housewives of New York. There were clues that Michael wasn’t as invested in the marriage throughout the season as Jules voiced that he didn’t pay as much attention to her. He would come home and immediately shower, he wouldn’t answer her calls and Jules would sometimes wonder who Michael was talking to on the phone.
According to Radar Online, Michael recently has been spotted out with a woman named Elyse Bensusan. Could he have been cheating on longtime wife Jules with Bensusan?
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Daily Mail reports that Bensusan and the Wainsteins met at a club of Elyse’s husband, Tsion Bensusan.
Bensusan is a mother of two, psychologist and was reportedly separated from her husband when she met Wainstein.
While it looks like Bensusan was the cause for the Wainstein split, a family member of Bensusan told Daily Mail:
The truth is that Jules was having difficulties with this man way before it had anything to do with Elyse … I don’t want to say anything that will hurt either one of them because Jules needs help. She needs to get it together and find out what went wrong with her marriage before dragging other people into this. It’s really easy to blame someone else instead of looking in the mirror and handling your own business. Jules and Elyse were never “good friends”. Elyse is a very smart person. She’s a member of Mensa. She’s got her own business. She’s a psychologist. She has a life unlike Jules who just seems to want to be in the spotlight. She’s not of the same caliber as Jules. She’s a very smart girl. I’d pit her against Jules any day.
As for what Elyse Bensusan, herself, had to say, she stated:
This whole thing is nonsense. It makes me sad really … it’s just silly.
Michael Wainstein has filed for divorce from wife Jules. They have two children together.