Who is Gretchen Christine Beaute? The entertainment and reality TV world know her as Gretchen Rossi? Rossi is known from her appearance on Bravo's The Real Housewives of Orange County.
Gretchen Rossi was born in 1978 she grew up in La Cresenta. Rossi is an entrepreneur with her own makeup line.Seven years before Rossi became a member of The Real Housewives of Orange County she sold real estate.
Rossi claimed that everybody had this misconception that she was with Jeff Beitzel for his money. She stated that he did not leave her any money. Gretchen was awarded $2,500,000 — some of which she collected from Beitzel’s life insurance policy. 
Rossi and Slade Smiley, have become an item on the show. Rossi said that she has know Slade for 8 years. Slade is a guy who's been around the block with the O.C. Housewives: He was engaged to Housewife Jo De La Rosa in the show's first season and had a previous rendezvous with yet another Housewife, Lauri Waring.Gretchen Rossi's pockets are deeper than the plots on The Real Housewives of Orange County.The litigious homemaker was ordered today to fork over another $40,799 in legal fees for the onetime beau she tried to sue for defamation but is now just suing for assault, battery and other alleged offenses.
And it could have been worse.
Onetime beau Jay Photoglou had asked for $85,000 in attorney fees, but the judge only awarded him half because the lawsuit against him is ongoing. But Photoglou's camp is calling it a win.
"We're pleased," he continued. "They tried to challenge the amount, they were unsuccessful, and the judge made the right ruling. And I have no doubt she'll appeal it, and we look forward to her losing that also and paying more attorney's fees for yet another poor decision."
Rossi was already forced to pay upward of $22,000 toward Photoglau's legal coffer last year after she went after him in court for claiming that the two of them were carrying on while she was engaged to Jeff Beitzel, who died of cancer in 2008.
The judge threw out the defamation-libel-slander portion of Rossi's case in October, but allowed her to move forward with claims of assault, battery, stalking, breach of contract, conversion, intentional emotional distress, intentional interference with contractual relations and intentional interference with prospective economic relations.
