Teresa Giudice (née Gorga; born May 18, 1972) is a reality television cast-member, best known for starring in The Real Housewives of New Jersey. Besides appearing on the show, Giudice has written multiple New York Times bestseller cookbooks and was featured on Donald Trump's The Celebrity Apprentice 5 (2012).
On December 23, 2015, she was released from federal prison after serving 11 months of a 15-month sentence for fraud, while her husband and four daughters resided in the Towaco section of Montville, New Jersey. She is known for her extravagant lifestyle and highly publicized financial and legal troubles leading up to her prison sentence. Her husband, Joe, began his 41-month sentence on March 23, 2016.
Teresa Giudice was born in Paterson, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants. Born Teresa Gorga, she and her younger brother Giuseppe "Joey" Gorga were raised in the Catholic faith. She studied fashion marketing at Berkeley College. In March 2017, Giudice's mother, Antonia Gorga, died.