Karen Huger of 'Real Housewives of Potomac' gets one-year jail sentence for DUI

“Real Housewives of Potomac” prima Karen Huger volition walk immoderate clip down bars aft she was convicted past twelvemonth of driving nether the influence.

A justice successful Montgomery County, Md., sentenced the 61-year-old Bravo property Wednesday to 2 years successful jailhouse with 1 twelvemonth suspended, The Times has confirmed. Huger was sentenced astir a twelvemonth aft she was arrested successful March 2024 for driving nether the power and crashing her Maserati successful Potomac.

“Driving nether the power is highly unsafe behavior. We prosecute thousands of D.U.I. cases each twelvemonth and instrumentality them seriously,” State‘s Attorney John McCarthy said successful a statement. “This defendant’s lawsuit was not handled immoderate otherwise based connected the facts and her postulation history.”

A ineligible typical for Huger did not instantly respond to The Times’ petition for remark Wednesday.

A Maryland assemblage successful December besides recovered Huger blameworthy connected charges of negligent driving, nonaccomplishment to power velocity to debar a collision and nonaccomplishment to notify authorities of an code change. As portion of her sentence, Huger is ordered to wage $2,900 successful fines and volition beryllium barred from driving for a twelvemonth aft her release. Once she is allowed to instrumentality down the wheel, she volition beryllium placed nether 5 years of supervised probation with an ignition interlock device, with the imaginable of 3 years of unsupervised probation.

Maryland constabulary reported to the tract of a single-vehicle collision connected March 19, 2024, astatine astir 11:50 p.m. Huger allegedly crossed a median and deed thoroughfare signs, crashing her Maserati. At the clip she was booked connected suspicion of driving nether the power and different postulation violations and was aboriginal released from constabulary custody.

Huger’s proceedings included witnesser grounds and constabulary body-camera video showing her soon aft the collision. The footage, reviewed by The Times, shows the “Real Housewives” prima refusing to crook implicit her operator license, seeming to slur her code and requesting that officers support their hands disconnected her and permission her alone. In different footage she tin beryllium heard asking an serviceman to crook disconnected their assemblage cam.

Days aft the incident, Huger told TMZ that her grief implicit her mother’s 2017 decease led to the crash. “Grief comes and goes successful waves, and with Mother’s Day approaching it has felt much similar a tsunami,” she said astatine the time. She besides claimed different conveyance was “heading for me” and swerved retired of the way, adding that she deed a roadworthy divider and past a tree.

“I would similar to stress,” she added, “it’s important to recognize your affectional authorities erstwhile driving and whitethorn this beryllium a reminder to each to usage their spot belts, my Mother whitethorn beryllium my Guardian Angel but the spot loop saved my life.”