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And, Cut: 'Real Housewife' Prison Term Slashed
Government website for inmates shows Teresa Giudice has new early release date from prison.

Four days in the slammer and things are already looking up for Montville’s Teresa Giudice.
The incarcerated cast member of Bravo TV’s “Real Housewives of New Jersey” has been granted an early release from her 15-month stint in prison, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website.
The government agency’s inmate locator shows Giudice, who turned herself in on the morning of Monday, Jan. 5, will be released on Feb. 5, 2016 – a solid two months earlier than her original sentence called for.
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The reality television personality is currently imprisoned at Federal Correctional Institution of Danbury, Connecticut, a low security federal correctional institution.
Giudice and her husband, Joe, were sentenced in October for their role in mortgage and bankruptcy fraud and conspiracy. Joe Giudice’s 41-month sentence will begin once his wife is released.
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Giudice reportedly told her two youngest daughters she is going away for research, telling them she is going to jail to work on a book about prison, according to The New York Daily News.
Giudice’s eldest daughters - Gia, 13, and Gabriella, 10, - know where she’s going. The younger girls - Milania, 8, and Audriana, 4 - do not, according toThe New York Daily News.
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