Russell Armstrong From The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills Has Died
TMZ reports that Russell Armstrong of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills was found dead in his home on Mulholland Drive last night. The police believe that Russell committed suicide, because the fire department found him hanging in his bedroom. Russell's roommate found him at around 8pm. Russell was 47.
Russell was going through a messy ass divorce with Taylor Armstrong and she recently accused him of beating on her during the end of their marriage. Russell admitted to pushing her around, but said he never Ike Turnered her in any way. Russell was also facing a $1.5 million lawsuit from a company that claims he and Taylor skimmed money off the top to pay for their lifestyle.
Russell is survived by his 5-year-old daughter with Taylor and his two sons from a previous relationship.
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Goodwill to anyone who actually gave 2 whips about him and are not just boo-hooing for publicity.
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Submitted by suckandfuck on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 6:57pm.
MOUNT RICKI ERUPTS! A LAVA GOD HAS SPOKEN!!!
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Fucking HA!
~Save thy drama, for thy momma~
Russell was dead inside. One only had to look at his eyes too see that he had already checked out of life. Clearly, the man was not comfortable with the trappings of Bravo and his socialite wife. But he adored his daughter and it was clear he understood her own need for comfort. (getting her a puppy for her birthday instead of buying another ridiculous bauble.
In time, the truth will come out. I"m not saying this man was a saint but I do not believe all the lies tossed from permanent victim Taylor.
I hope the little girl finds some solid and strong support because she will have a tough road ahead living with a fame ho as a Mother.
Apparently, Taylor went through his browser history and found gay web sites including adam4adam, and that information was just about to be included in some tell-all book and leaked to the press.
What's the point of putting that information out there for everybody to see? To humiliate him? No care about how his children would feel about it? I never want to be famous in any regard.
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My heart sounds just for you my dear...
what a pussy.
I was just reading this article that "supposedly" Russell and Taylor we're picked by Bravo as the "disaster couple" and if they didn't bring the drama on season 2 they would be cut from the series.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-russell-armstrong-201108...
No bueno.
Submitted by urmomma on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 10:36pm.
@atomic city
I feel bad. I was in no way minimizing your pain. I read your comment after...I was rambling....and took too much time spell checking myself to keep up.
Everybody has hurt and I am sorry for yours. I am afflicted with a terminal case of stupid ass most of the time...... Truely.
I wish you peace and love, doll.
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Oh no, momma (I love calling everybody momma, btw), please don't feel bad. I cannot imagine the pain of what you had to go through.
If it's any consolation (like a prize, pick door 3), I completely identified with you about realizing you're not cut out for your field of study. I double-majored, got a graduate degree, spent three years working and realized that I was entirely too soft-hearted to perform the job I'd worked so hard to get. I just couldn't separate myself like the others. But I always thought, the day I don't care about these people is the day I need to find a new field of work. Unfortunately, several of my co-workers needed to find a new line, but I just couldn't do it. I was completely over it within just a few years, way too sensitive.
Everyone thought I was absolutely nuts when I took a bit of time to find my reason for life (lounge around in pjs for a couple of months watching E! and reading the D). The job I have now, is a 180 from the prior, but I love the work, my co-workers and I make a significant amount more...and I don't obsess about it, dream about it and don't literally bring it home with me every night. I respect those who are willing to take a leap of faith, so much love to you as well.
Again, please don't feel bad. I feel badly for you as well, I can't imagine what you had to see through your studies. At one point, Dr. Bill Bass (founder of the Body Farm) would assist with our labs or serve as guest lecturer, or visits to the farm--I still have nightmares, and that was at least 7 years ago. In fact, Dad died right at the end of my undergrad work and a LOT of it had to do with often horrid lab work. I found mysel obsessed at times or completely inable to complete the work. It's a wonder I finished and graduated.
"A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle."--catholicschoolgirl
@atomic city
I feel bad. I was in no way minimizing your pain. I read your comment after...I was rambling....and took too much time spell checking myself to keep up.
Everybody has hurt and I am sorry for yours. I am afflicted with a terminal case of stupid ass most of the time...... Truely.
I wish you peace and love, doll.
wow. I am stunned. I watched the show...he did seem VERY ill at ease in every single frame! Then we had Taylor continually bitching about how she just wanted to be happppy and she wasn't happppppy. I could relate to this Russell guy, because one could tell (easily) that he wanted to be home on his couch watching tv instead of spending the evening with the housewives (and their hubands) of Beverly Hills. I loved the show because the clothing, cars and homes were fantastic! I feel sad for this man and his family. I confess, I don't feel the least sad for "Taylor".
AtomicCity and PinkTransAm:
I'm really sorry to hear what you went through. I can't imagine...
....as a paramedic student, I remember going to my first "suicide" call. It was a man hanging by a extension cord in a garage....he was long gone of this world. And as *I* dealt with this as a human...it was so fucking sad. I was surrounded by hardin' first response personnnel....emts and cops. I was also surrounded by family members who could not accept the death. *We* were cussed and accused of his death. Seriously. accused. of his. death....that we did not "do enough" to prevent it....to save it. Fuck me, that was soul wrentching. WRENTCHING. It is like a movie scene that I cannot edit, direct or forget. "WHOAH! TIME OUT! I JUST SHOWED UP!" damn. But I did not judge a one of them. I understood. Instantly.
I am not a practicing paramedic. I graduated and did not pursue. I found my limits too late....fuck, right?! I am too sensitive. Hard lesson. But, I do not regret the life experience and aknowledge those who do daily. DEATH IS UGLY and it causes pain....
You hear this often, due to financial problems. Many times they take the family with them. Luckily he didn't go that route. I feel so sorry for their 5 year-old.
Submitted by AtomicCity on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 9:38pm.
Wow, what a story. Sorry to hear that. There really are some vile people out there.
Forgive me if this has been said, but I feel like suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. It's sad that the love for his three children (two sons from previous relationships) couldn't help him overcome the pain and agony he felt in his heart. Fame is a curse, in my opinion.
Submitted by Balenciaga Bitch: "I hope she burns in Hell if he didnt abuse her in any way....I dont think he did, and I think she made WAY more of it than EVER happened IF it happened at all. She will have to live with her conscience EVERY day. Karma is a bitch..."
BB, it's interesting, because for some reason, I stick up for Russell. 95% of the time, I'm automatically on the woman's side (I'm on Camille GRAMMER's side, for fuck's sake, and I HATE that woman as much as I hate Taylor!!!!)I don't know. I think she played him like a fucking fiddle. First of all, I think he had a very low EQ (emotion quotient) and Taylor danced circles around him. Whatever she says about Russell "He's stubborn and always gets what he wants" is really describing herself.
If he were really an abuser, we would see him being all charming and friendly like the real-life abusers I have known. They're nice as anything, seem so easygoing, win people over so when the woman tells someone, they're like "Joe? He's such a nice guy! No way would he do that!" Taylor did whatever she wanted, and the controlling abusers don't allow that.
I do believe he shoved her. But I don't think he was a systematic domestic abuser like the ones I've seen. I think Taylor is cunning and a big fat LIAR.
This is just based on everything I've seen of them, and what I've seen in real life.
some of the comments calling him a POS and whatever are mean and unnecessary . You don't know what his life was like, what kind of a person he really was, and his kids and family could be reading this, to them he isn't a POS, he still still their Dad, Brother, Son..whatever.
Though I'm very late commenting, this story saddens me so much for individuals that I do not know personally. Russell always reminded me a bit of my own father, who also 'allegedly' commit suicide.
While most of us saw cold, dead eyes on Russell, I saw a life of sadness behind them. And while this whole ordeal pains me for his loved ones, I feel so horribly for his children.
If I may ramble for a moment, it really pisses me off that this trashbag tells TMfuckingZ that she hasn't told her daughter of her father's death yet. What the fuck? Seriously?
This reminds me of my father's death. My father's wife-who I refuse to refer to as step-mother-has admitted to knowing he was dead as early as 7AM. However, she let his body lie in bed until she allowed my 9-year-old little (half, but sister no less) sister to go in there and find him. My sister realized he was dead after she nibbled on his pinkie finger in an attempt to rouse him, something she'd done previously--a type of game between them. When she realized he was cold and lifeless, she called 911. The EMTs initially thought they were tending to step-witch because she had taken so many meds, a daily routine for her. My sister then had to alert them to my dead father in one of the back bedrooms. Only because members of my father's family was present, and they are involved in locala politics, did they allow her to go with a cousin instead of being turned over to DCS.
Step-whore did nothing. She abandoned the house that day, showed up to the funeral in an Elvira-esque getup, promptly left the funeral with my sister and I never heard from my sister for the next 7 years. We'd tracked her down to Florida.
Step-whore allowed the house to foreclose, the cars to be reposessed, did nothing to prepare for the funeral except saying he wished to be cremated...which we all knew was absolutely wrong.
My father had filed for divorced two weeks prior, but since it was unfinalized, she still received everything since he had no will to be found.
Not only did she allow my sister to find him, she also called my elderly grandmother and said, "Sonny's dead, you know I didn't kill him, right?" She said that to my frail, elderly grandmother whose only son had just died.
The next time I saw my little sister, was when she was graduating from high school, in the Top Ten of her class. While she's very intelligent and driven, she has so many emotional issues it is ridiculous. I cannot imagine what she thinks of every single day. I hate her mother with everything I have for allowing that to happen.
And I say 'alleged', because while everyone loves a good conspiracy theory, there was just too much that pointed to homicide. The tox results took 9 months to get back and by then the sheriff heading up the investigation had been ousted and all evidence, reports, interviews, etc had been 'lost'. Therfore, his death certificate states suicide.
I've made peace that by the legal standpoint, my father took his own life. But I will never forgive her for knowingly allow my father lie in bed until 1PM (she admitted this much), and then sending my sister in to wake him. Or for literally almost giving my grandmother a heart attack. Or taking my little sister away for years, never allowing her to contact her 3 other siblings. I am fine that she got all of his insurance policy payouts (even though the foreclosures, wtf?), it's that she abandoned the house and allowed items that were worthless to her, but meant the world to my family to just be discarded like old pizza boxes.
There are obviously many, many more details but this is not the time nor place and I apologize for hijacking the board as it is. This story just really seemed to strike a cord, not that I think skeletal Taylor could stage Russell's death.
I'm very sorry to all of the other poster who have written about their own horrible realities. I sincerely reach out to each of you. Bless you and the strength you find everyday to exist.
Also, feel free to send any of my therapy invoices to:
AtomicCity
Atomic City, USA
"A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle."--catholicschoolgirl
Submitted by ricki lake on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 3:22pm.
Don't be mad at me. Be mad at her "scumbag" father that left her orphaned. (We all know Taylor isn't present enough to count as a parent.)
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Take note: I agree with ricki for better or for worse. (don't cream your crusty mean-ass panties, ricki. I know you won't. I accept that.) I do not have a vanilla opinion of suicide. I have been around it....indirectly. I do not speak much on the subject because I know better. It is a fuck your asshole raw kind of subject. RAW! A sore ass that bengay don't soothe it. Counseling may put a bandaide on it, but will never ever fix the issue. Truth. We can only get passed the bullshit handed to us...no one asks, do they? No one asks to shit directly on our souls. Well....nevermind.
BUT! (there it is, the "but.") I do not condone that shit in any way. I am a girl of faith. (calm, down, ricki. I will not preform a ritual in your honor tonight...unless you ask.) I am not putting anyone of "no faith" in check. I do not believe it is my place. Period. *stops to paint my girl's toenails*...What? she asked! time waits for fuck all* anyhoo....*forgets train of thought...* I just do not understand it. Innocently. I would rather suffer my own demons than to place them on others and leave them hanging....struggling with them. If I can't deal, then who am I do to leave my messy mind behind to decipher through "what could I have done better? (sic) her situtaion????" *gives the fuck up* I do not know if I expressed my feelings in a loving and caring way, but that is all I have. I do care. And would be absolutely PISSED if anyone I loved left me in a lurch. I am not saying I would not forgive. Damn it! I have forgiveness in my heart, but don't make me suffer, too! WOW! That sounds selfish. Fuck. I can only say, "let's talk. We can discuss antyhing and everything...." We will work it out. Somehow. *tries really fucking hard to package this shit in a pretty dress but fails*...I just don't condone it. It hurts me.(hopes that ricki knows that I started to reply, but ended up off another planet not directed at your orbit) I love life and it hurts sometimes. Really bad. Loves y'all anyways.*passes out in a bed full of hello kitties and dildos*
Terribly tragic, though not all too unexpected from this series. So many of them go bankrupt it seemed like only a matter of time that one of them tried to/went through with offing themselves out of being so ashamed/complete loss of self-esteem.
This is why Camille will always be my favorite out of the Beverly Hill Housewives. Bitch is tough as fucking nails to be as amicable as she's been through her divorce and stand in front of a camera. Though, it would be better for her not to be in a limelight... I love seeing batshit crazy on television!
Stessie1216 on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 12:23pm. her real name was Shana Hughes, she changed it to "Taylor Ford' and supposedly her and russell led people to believe she was from the Ford Motor Family
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Haha,we have a car dealership called Taylor Ford where I live.
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I am a whore, I don't deny such. I am legally married still with the leech trying to crawl up my panties to the point I want I vomit~ super martian.
what a fuck head..he did her a favor except he leaves her destitute ..fuckin abusive asshole..good riddance
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Submitted by stinkbutt on Mon, 03/29/2010 - 5:47pm.
suckandfuck, do us all a favor, and hang yourself. Oh, and your parents should be shot for raising a disgusting pig like yourself.
I'm no detective but yes, finding someone hanging there just might be a sign of suicide. Yepper.
Submitted by ricki lake on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 11:56am.
I hope the little girl found him. Daddy's Little Princess no more.
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That is one fucked up comment to make.
It seems she decided to divorce him when she found out he had no more money.
The 60K birthday party didn't help.
I hope she burns in Hell if he didnt abuse her in any way....I dont think he did, and I think she made WAY more of it than EVER happened IF it happened at all. She will have to live with her conscience EVERY day. Karma is a bitch...
I hope she burns in Hell if he didnt abuse her in any way....I dont think he did, and I think she made WAY more of it than EVER happened IF it happened at all. She will have to live with her conscience EVERY day. Karma is a bitch...
I'm late to the thread too, but this is just sad all around. Even though I didn't like either one of them, this is a tragedy & I can't mock.
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Tardy to the party, but HOLY SHIT. That poor little girl. I'm pissed at him for abandoning her to that horrible horrible woman.
I know people hated him, but I don't think he was as bad as he was potrayed by that show. He was continually out-manipulated by Taylor. Not saying he was a terrific guy, but she is a master manipulator.
I'm sure he had a completely male mind: woman says "If you really want to leave the party, just leave. I want to stay and dance and hang with my girls." So he takes her at her word and leaves. THEN it's all "Can you believe he left me here all alone? All the other husbands are here..." etc. You have to SPELL IT OUT FOR MEN. They are literal-minded.
Submitted by RustyHooligan on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 3:46pm.
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I don't know if this is true, but his lawyer claims he has no knowledge of a will, and that Russell didn't have anything to leave to anyone anyway. Apparently he was ten mil in debt with only 50,000 worth of assets.
I don't know nuffin about this show or the players, but his death wouldn't affect her right to community property acquired during marriage. He could will his entire estate (such as it is) to others, but I think her CP claim takes precedence (since it existed pre-death). Maybe they had a prenup, too?
Another kicker is most life insurance policies don't pay out in case of suicide. In 1990, Del Shannon blew his brains out with a rifle and his wife argued it was an accident (he was on Prozac) so she could recover under his policy.
This is perfect.
Submitted by ricki lake on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 3:22pm.
Don't be mad at me. Be mad at her "scumbag" father that left her orphaned. (We all know Taylor isn't present enough to count as a parent.) She should see what a selfish piece of shit her father was in her greatest time of need. Without this knowledge and the closure it could have brought, she is sure to grow up wandering the lands, sucking, fucking
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Come on, you're grasping to justify your mean spiritedness . DO you have a 5 year old? DO you remember being 5 years old? This is NOT something a 5 year old can process, let alone see it as "closure". Finding his body would absolutely scar her for life. The suicide is enough to put her into therapy for 20 years ... but witnessing the death itself (he HUNG himself) ... would put her over the edge. That's basically what you're "wishing" on that little girl. You're not right. And you sound completely void of any kind of empathy let alone sympathy. Shame on you.
Don't be mad at me. Be mad at her "scumbag" father that left her orphaned. (We all know Taylor isn't present enough to count as a parent.) She should see what a selfish piece of shit her father was in her greatest time of need. Without this knowledge and the closure it could have brought, she is sure to grow up wandering the lands, sucking, fucking and drinking her way to an early death as she yearns for the hugs she never got from daddy. Again, because daddy was a spineless piece of shit and mommy was an vapid ano attention cunt with a penchant for bedsheet dresses. That shit be on them, not me. Don't hate me just 'cause I point that shit out. Hate on Taylor for selling the little scruntling next month to pay for a week of car service.
Never watched the show, but that bitch has some major dentures going on.
Submitted by snowpiece on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 2:05pm.
Taylor is telling TMZ that she hasn't told Kennedy yet
WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING TO TMZ, BITCH!!?!?!?!? GO be with your child!!!!
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One word - Famewhore.
I feel for Kennedy and his other 2 kids who will all be fucked up from this.
I had a friend who's father offed himself when she was 6 and her sister was 4 years old, they were so messed up as kids and in therapy forever. Kids do not have skills to cope with such a loss or understand and process such a thing. It left gaping holes in their lives, she and her sister screwed and clung to any dickhead trying to fill the hole left by their father.
@snowpiece
What the fuck?! What a cunt. Her daughter is gonna have a shitload of more issues thanks to that. Ugh. Putting your famewhoring above your own kin. smh
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I myself felt for Russell...I am antisocial most of the time...just feel too judged by most people, and looking back I understand now how bad and awkward he felt when he was forced to be a part of that phone bev. hills snobbish gang...I would run to the bar and get soused if I had to deal with so many damn egos in one room. Russell ran and took the chance of looking like a control freak, but hey, he hates phoney people and so do I, I would have reacted the same way. Poor Kennedy is stuck with trout mouth and her money hungry self...sorry, she contributed to this...no mercy on the plastic surgery obsessed phoney...she now has serious money problems...community property folks..his problems are now hers...now THAT is what you get for being selfish in this life. She should have risen above the money shit, and really loved her man..not obsess on image and bad plastic surgery.
Taylor is telling TMZ that she hasn't told Kennedy yet
WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING TO TMZ, BITCH!!?!?!?!? GO be with your child!!!!
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I see "a very special episode" of RHOBH coming down the pike.
Wow Russell, I know you were going through a lot of shit but things would have gotten better eventually. . .
my father committed suicide . . . . (I was 35--not a young child) People who commit suicide are beyond desperate people and don't think they are being selfish--they think everyone they love will actually be better off. I think that is what they truly believe--that they are doing everyone a favor . . . The reality of course is quite the opposite.
If you are suicidal please get help--there are medications and people who can help you feel so much better
dude was broke beyond broke and Taylor seemed determined to ruin what little self esteem he had left by eluding to physical abuse...I remember watching Taylor and her dead fish lips go so over the top with her daughters birthday, and her daughter skipping the whole thing to hang out with the nanny...something is terribly wrong with Taylor and her superficialness was terribly disturbing, but he also seemed so ill at ease around these people (that is the housewifes and husbands) cause he was dead broke and barely surviving...Taylor of course has already commented to Radaronline how she just can't believe he would do this...but think about it, no money left, divorcing his selfish ass wife, being accused of physically beating her...fuck it...I personally would have just run off somewhere, anywhere, but when you have a number of lawsuits, money problems and an impending divorce, he probably felt the only way out was suicide...I think having a kid would have stopped him but Taylor...she is just a trainwreck...hope she becomes humble from this. Sorry, I don't feel so bad for her, the child, yes, but Taylor seems the type who will milk this for all it is worth. There marriage was a sham, the kid should have never been born into this mess of a family.
These bitches need to be stopped. Enough already, assholes.
sadness. I've never see the show, but nevertheless, this is sad. I don't know why people see the need to do things like this to themselves. At the very least, just say "Fuck it". Lawsuit? So what. Divorce? So what. Let everything come, then watch it all just blow away. Nothing on this earth is so serious that we need to kill ourselves.
Submitted by viridian on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 12:15pm.
"I always get that bitch mixed up up with the one from the OC, they both look like burn victims or like a chimp bit their faces off and the doctors had to reconstruct that fucking mess on the front of their heads..."
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Submitted by ricki lake on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 11:56am.
I hope the little girl found him. Daddy's Little Princess no more.
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What kind of a devoid-of-a-soul human being are you?
That is an absolutely despicable, horrendous thing to say, for Christ's sake.
I know Dlisted is all about scum celebrities; it's a pity that some of the posters match these lowbrow
article subjects.
My heart goes out to their daughter, who will be dealing with some pretty heavy issues in the future.
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Very sad indeed. Poor Kennedy is now left with only her mother and whoever the rich "uncle" of the week is.
Feel bad for his daughter. I don't feel even the least bit of sympathy towards that melted hag Taylor. It was so obvious that her husband wanted to have nothing to do with the show or that crowd of people. She should have taken the cues and not have signed up for that shit. She knows about his socially anxious personality, respect his wishes, bitch. That's what a good partner would do.