[Unidentified Female:] A lot of issues in my marriage are definitely addressed this year.
[Powell:] Two weeks before he died, he took himself off his anti- depression medication, those are things that can be made up. There are graphic photos, showing Taylor Armstrong with a cut on the right side of her face from her mouth to her eye socket.
[Jane Velez-mitchell, Anchor:] Taylor tried to keep those injuries under wraps.
[Unidentified Female:] He said, "This is the way reality TV is." I said, "Russell, this is brutal."
[Galanos:] The drama never ends in the "Housewives" circuit. Tonight, we`re learning that Russell Armstrong`s wife, Taylor, "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," isn`t even invited to her husband`s funeral in Texas. Turnabout is fair play, because Taylor Armstrong held a memorial for her husband this week in Los Angeles, and none of Russell`s Texas relatives showed up. Not even his mom. Russell Armstrong committed suicide last week, following reports of financial ruin, domestic abuse, chronicled on the Bravo reality show. Straight out to Alexis Tereszcuk, Radar Online reporter. Help us understand this. Two funerals? Two sets of mourners? What`s the tale here?
[Alexis Tereszcuk, Scene Reporter:] The family is feuding. Taylor Armstrong is not a favorite of Russell`s family. They hate her. They feel like she drove him to this suicide. They feel it was her love of the money and the lifestyle that caused him to overextend himself and ultimately, to commit suicide. So they`ve been battling over his remains. They`d split up. He was cremated, his body, and think split up his ashes.
[Galanos:] Wait a minute.
[Tereszcuk:] His family is keeping half, and Taylor is keeping half.
[Galanos:] Part of his remains are in Texas, and part are staying in California.
[Tereszcuk:] Yes, absolutely. That`s how nasty this battle has become between the two families. So Taylor had a memorial service in Los Angeles, and the family is having one in Texas, and they`re not attending either one of them. They even talked the family wants to sue they want to sue Bravo. They`re really mad about their son`s death. And they really hold Taylor responsible.
[Galanos:] What are they going to do if he shows up on the show at all? Talking about mom.
[Tereszcuk:] The mom has threatened to sue Bravo. She said she doesn`t want to see a single frame of her son. Everybody in his extended family, even his stepbrother says, you know, if the parents don`t sue, I want to sue. They are piping mad.
[Galanos:] What`s Bravo saying? I mean, can we expect to see him? I mean, are they going to stick to their guns and do what they want? Do we have any idea?
[Tereszcuk:] They may be they may be toning it down a lit bit, but they`re not going to cut him out entirely. You know, this is Taylor`s livelihood now. She`s in the show. She needs to be a part of the show. She`s got to make money with her daughter. So they`re going to keep her in. And they might change it a lit bit, but it was a very honest season. You know, they had therapy. They signed away, you know, rights to keep that private. They are going to show that on the show. They have a lot of really dark secrets about the two of their relationship, and they might want to show it on the season.
[Galanos:] I want to hit on more reality housewives drama. This time out of New Jersey. Housewife Jackie Levine`s ex-husband, father of their daughter, Ashley, arrested along with his current wife. What, insurance fraud here? Is that is he a big part of her life?
[Tereszcuk:] You know, the dad is not a huge part of her life, but he actually just showed up on the show to do an intervention. So he`s been involved. She defended him. Ashley said that her dad is not at fault. But here`s the thing. His house burned down back in March. He got $429,000 from insurance. Well, now somebody has come forward and said, "We saw him at the house about 30 minutes before the fire started, throwing gasoline and kerosene on the house burned down."
[Galanos:] Wow.
[Tereszcuk:] So there`s an investigation. He was jailed. He`s been charged with arson, insurance fraud. It`s a huge legal problem for him.
[Galanos:] There`s our housewives update. Alexis, thanks so much. Coming up, Casey Anthony back to school? What does the future hold for her?