Though this certainly sounds bizarre enough to invoke speculation of those two dreaded, eye-rolling words—publicity stunt—for now, it's probably best to take Tareq Salahi at his word.
Because according to the onetime White House gatecrasher, his wife, the notorious former Real Housewives of D.C. castmate Michaele Salahi, has been kidnapped.
"ALERT!! URGENT! MICHAELE SALAHI MISSING!" read the first of many tweets RT'd by Tareq—and originally sent out by his former porn star publicist.
"RHODC star is MISSING, Please RT, if u know any details please contact Virginia Police Dept or missing@MichaeleSalahi.com... Michaele Salahi was last seen wearing a Baby Blue T-shirt dress with a silver glitter dolphin on the front and back thongs. #KIDNAPPED."
As for more formal inquiries, Tareq, who says he last saw his wife—who has been no stranger to receiving death threats in the past—yesterday morning at 11 a.m., sounded the alarm to authorities last night, after receiving a suspicious phone call from an otherwise MIA Michaele, informing the Warren County Sheriff's Department that he believed his wife had been abducted.
He came to this conclusion, he told TMZ, after Michaele missed an appointment to get her hair done.
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Last night, Tareq said he received a phone call from Michaele from an unrecognizable cell phone number with an Oregon area code, and she informed him she was going to her mother's house, located very near the Salahi's home. Concerned, he called her mother, who said she hadn't spoken to her daughter and had no knowledge of the plan.
This is when Tareq phoned the sheriff's department. According to him, a department representative claimed that, rather bizarrely, the sheriff had already received a preemptive phone call from Michaele informing them she was simply dealing with family issues.
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