Michaele Salahi

Michaele Schon (formerly Michaele Salahi; née Michaele Ann Holt; born October 1, 1965) is an American television personality and model. In 2010, she had a role in the reality show The Real Housewives of D.C.. She and her former husband, Tareq Salahi, gained national attention in November 2009 by crashing a White House state dinner in honor of India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Schon is the daughter of Howard A. Holt Jr. & Rosemary (née O'Malley) of Fairfax, Virginia, sister of Debbie, Howard III, and Glen. She attended, but did not graduate from, King's College, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Michaele met Tareq Salahi at a 2000 Christmas party that McLean, Virginia real estate developer N. Casey Margenau and his wife Molly had hosted. Michaele and Tareq married in 2003 in a ceremony at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C. The guest list included 1,836 guests, including Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Margaret Heckler. The wedding, originally scheduled for October 2002, was postponed numerous times, prompting Kennedy to quip that he needed to issue "subpoenas" to the bride and groom.

Schon was a front-desk employee at contemporary hit radio station WKRZ in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton in 1989. She then moved to the Washington, D.C., area getting a job at the make-up counter at Nordstrom at the Tysons Corner Mall in McLean, Virginia, for most of the 1990s. In 2001 she was a make-up artist on the set of the "Lady Bird" episode of the PBS documentary series American Experience.

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