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Lisa Hochstein entered a not guilty plea in court on Monday after she and her ex-boyfriend, Jody Glidden, were accused of spying on her ex-husband, Lenny Hochstein, amid their messy divorce in 2023.
As she was arraigned on a criminal charge pertaining to the supposed planting of a listening device in Lenny’s vehicle, and a tentative trial date was set, the 43-year-old Real Housewives of Miami star opted out of appearing in court, instead allowing her attorney to submit the plea on her behalf.
On April 20, Local 10 News reported that Lisa had been arraigned on a charge of “interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications,” and explained that a judge had scheduled an additional hearing on the case for June 8 and set a tentative trial start date for June 21.
As RHOM fans may have seen, Lisa surrendered herself to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center last Wednesday, days after Jody, 52, was arrested on the same charge. Six hours later, she bonded out.
According to the report, Lisa and Jody are accused of installing a listening device in the driver’s seat floorboard of Lenny’s 2023 Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600 SUV, which he had allowed Lisa to borrow since she was considering getting one for herself.
Once it was discovered, Lenny, 59, told detectives that he’d contacted his lawyer, who proceeded to hire a private investigator to examine the device, which included 98 recordings, one of which featured Lisa and Jody talking as they “wrestled [the device] into place.”
Following the news of Jody’s arrest earlier this month, Lisa’s attorney, Jayne Weintraub, released a statement to Reality Blurb, which read, “This matter is part of a contentious divorce proceeding and does not belong in criminal court.”
Also on Monday, Lisa shared a telling message on social media, seemingly in regard to the charge against her.
“Timelines matter,” Lisa wrote on Threads on April 20.
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