Remember the Salahis? They crashed that White House state dinner, were revealed to be complete scam artists along with all the associated financial problems and lawsuits (17) that go along with that, and Michaele was on Real Housewives of D.C. and got kicked off Celebrity Rehab. In the middle they got into public feuds with several people including Whoopi Goldberg and Michael Lohan.

Well there was some pretty amusing drama with them yesterday. Michaele’s husband Tareq freaked out and told the press that his wife was probably kidnapped since she called him from an Oregon cell phone and was “cryptic” after going missing. He contacted authorities and was crying when he spoke to the local news about it. Only his wife was alive and well and had run off with her lover, the lead guitarist for Journey, with whom she’d been having an affair for six months.

Tareq reported his wife Michaele missing on Tuesday, but the Real Housewives of D.C. star tells authorities she’s fine.

The Warren County Sheriff’s Office released a statement Wednesday saying they had spoken with Michaele and she “assured the deputy that she had left the residence with a good friend and was where she wanted to be. Mrs. Salahi advised that she did not want Mr. Salahi to know where she was.”

It turns out that she’s actually with Journey guitarist Neal Schon in Tennessee, where the band has a gig with Foreigner.

“Nobody kidnapped her and they are in Memphis together,” a Journey rep tells TMZ.

Why she was with Schon wasn’t immediately explained.

Tareq had called the sheriff to say that he hadn’t seen his wife for six hours and was concerned because he received a phone call from her from an unfamiliar Oregon number and believed she was under duress.

Soon after, Deputy Mike Glavis spoke with Michaele on the phone and said she was “calm” and “engaged in the conservation.”

“Mrs. Salahi advised Deputy Glavis that she was very sorry that the Sheriff’s Office had to be involved, but she did not want to be home right now,” the statement said.

Tareq was then informed that his wife was fine, but told TMZ he believed she was forced to make the call by her kidnapper.

“We are reaching to the public pleading desperately for your help,” Tareq said in a statement. “We are asking the public to please be on the lookout for her, and if found please approach her and contact the authorities to intervene and that she may be forced to say she is OK, when in fact she is not and being held under possible abduction.”

[From People]

I watched the video of this guy and was prepared to mock him, but I genuinely felt sorry for him instead. I’m a sucker like that. It seemed like he really did think they were happy and that something had happened to his wife to make her leave like that. It’s not just the men who lie, cheat and break their partner’s hearts. Still, these two are famewhores and opportunists of the worst kind. Any sympathy I could feel for them is fleeting. I would accuse them of staging this for publicity, but I doubt that Tareq is that good of an actor. It looks like he’ll have to find another partner in crime.

The Salahis are shown in April. When they notice the cameras all of a sudden they’re posing together.

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