Gretchen Rossi Upset Over Reports Of Phony Charity Fund For Ex-Fiance
Posted on Apr 02, 2010 @ 09:00AM
The Real Housewives of Orange County's Gretchen Rossi is upset over allegations that she falsely promised to donate proceeds of a song she released on iTunes to charity, and RadarOnline.com has all the details.
Rossi said in a Bravo TV blog that she performed a song called Nothing Without You to honor the memory of her late fiancée, Jeff Beitzel, who died of Leukemia on September 13, 2008. She said she was hoping it "would resonate with the people so much more due to the tragic loss I had suffered.
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"I then decided to take my song and use it as way to help save someone else's life," she wrote. "I felt so hopeless when Jeff was sick and then when he passed away... Download the song on iTunes, and proceeds will go to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and the Jeff Beitzel Foundation I started in Jeff's honor. Thank you all for your support of this cause."
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After some began questioning where the money raised from the song was going -- and if such an arrangement had been set up with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society -- Rossi defended herself on her Facebook page.
"I want to address a ridiculous rumor being posted," Rossi wrote on a Facebook blog March 26. "The Jeff Beitzel Memorial Fund is with the Leukemia Soceity in O.C.! People can make donations 2 this fund directly by writing "For the Jeff Beitzel Memorial Fund", Just as the proceeds from my song will be donated 2 this same fund! Someone stating that it doesn't exist is ignorant, direspectful, and incorrect! People should stop spreading false & malicious rummors."
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A spokesperson for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society said in a statement: “Last year Gretchen Rossi was a candidate for Woman of the Year for the Orange County Inland Empire Chapter of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) and raised money in honor of Jeff Beitzel. LLS received approximately $15,000 from that campaign. It appears there was a misunderstanding about the establishment of a “Jeff Beitzel Memorial Fund” or a “Jeff Beitzel Foundation.” LLS has not set up a fund in Jeff Beitzel’s name. Any donations made to LLS in honor of Jeff Beitzel will be used to support LLS’s mission: Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma and improve the quality of life for patients and their families. To date, LLS has not received proceeds from the sale of Gretchen Rossi’s song, Nothing Without You on iTunes, but any proceeds received by LLS will also go to support blood cancer research and patient services.”
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Hey blubber, your accusations are just that. So you can type that sentence allllllll day long, and it's meaningless. Again no investigaton, no wrong doing!!!
Posted Tue, 04/13/2010 - 5:08pm
Shame, shame, shame on her! Using cancer donations as your personal pocket money. What's she planning next?
Posted Fri, 04/02/2010 - 8:40pm
Her make-up customers payments going to Slade's paypal account? She buys a record label & starts a makeup line? A judge orders her to pay the "friend" she had the restraining order!
Posted Fri, 04/02/2010 - 8:26pm
The ladies over at Reality Tea blog figured this out too. Check out the actual email at: ****://****.realitytea.com/2010/04/01/is-gretchen-rossi-lying-jeff-beitzel-foundation-does-not-exist/comment-page-4/#comment-13156
Posted Fri, 04/02/2010 - 3:32pm
oh oh Gretchy poo pay up. I love you although Katie Poo is my idol.
Posted Fri, 04/02/2010 - 12:56pm
RIGHT!! If she witch is with slade/dead beat daddy, she is the same as he IS a LIE!!!! Pay up your child $upport slade/dead beat daddy & one kid is very sick! Amota!!
Posted Fri, 04/02/2010 - 12:38pm
she isn't really going to marry slade, is she?
Posted Fri, 04/02/2010 - 12:37pm
It is coming to light that Gretchen is a fraud. Anyone who would deal with Slade cannot be trusted.
Posted Fri, 04/02/2010 - 12:20pm
Gretchen used to live in Michigan when I used to live their. People thought we were sisters. She was looking for a sugar daddy then met Jeff. I thought they were married!
Posted Fri, 04/02/2010 - 12:13pm
so if they haven't received any proceeds from her song, who or what did?
Posted Fri, 04/02/2010 - 12:13pm