Dr. Terry Dubrow has slammed Vicki Gunvalson for claiming he inherited her wealth from her late brother, Quiet Riot frontman Kevin Dubrow.
Web page Six’s “Digital Reali-Tea” caught up with Terry, 67, at his spouse’s annual “Champs with Heather Dubrow” occasion on the 4 Seasons in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday afternoon.
“It pissed me off,” Terry mentioned when requested for her response to Gunvalson’s stunning concept that a part of her wealth got here from her brother’s inheritance, which was introduced up throughout the Season 20 premiere of “Actual Housewives of Orange County.”
Kevin, who died in 2007 of an unintended overdose at age 52, was the lead singer of the Nineteen Eighties rock band Quiet Riot, who wrote hit songs like “Cum On Really feel the Noize” and “Bang Your Head (Metallic Well being).”
Nevertheless, Terry – who’s a famend plastic surgeon and, alongside along with his spouse, has appeared on a number of actuality TV reveals – insisted he constructed his wealth from the bottom up, sharing that he began working “on the age of 10” and “waited tables right through medical faculty.”
“Every little thing I did, I did myself, aside from Heather’s contribution, which was main,” Terry mentioned. “So to say that I inherited an amount of cash from my brother – initially, factually, that is simply completely incorrect.”
Terry known as Gunvalson’s accusations “insensitive” and “the incorrect factor to do to [Kevin’s] reminiscence.” He acknowledged that any cash his brother had on the time of his demise would have gone to their “dwelling” mom, however famous that as Kevin’s final hit album was in 1984, the remaining funds weren’t “vital” at his demise.
“I don’t know why she wished to mess with our success,” Terry fumed. “Possibly that claims one thing about how she feels about her personal stage of success, however on the finish of the day, it’s simply not true.”
Terry additionally mentioned he hasn’t heard from Gunvalson since she wager $100,000 to show him incorrect in an interview with TMZ.
“It is like a ghost city. Tumbleweeds in an East Texas city that was evacuated. Nothing,” Terry mentioned. “It is superb how keen she is to go on everybody’s podcasts and do each interview and discuss it. However in relation to strolling the speak, nothing.”
Though he has but to obtain a name from Gunvalson, the “Botched” star mentioned his authentic wager nonetheless stands.
“If you wish to say that, high quality. Say it. However wager me,” he insisted. “Till you wish to wager me $100,000 that I did not inherit a dime from my brother, shut up, Vicki. Depart it alone. You are simply incorrect.”
The Dubrows’ lavish life-style has been well-documented on “The Actual Housewives of Orange County” since Heather joined the sequence in 2012.
In 2022, the couple bought their Newport Seashore house (aka Chateau Dubrow) for $55 million. In 2025, they bought their Beverly Hills mansion for $16.5 million after initially itemizing it for $25 million.
On the season 20 premiere of “RHOC,” Heather threw a Valentine’s Day “Hearts and Heels” get together that price her a whopping $75,000. The identical evening, she confronted Gunvalson for claiming on a podcast that she and Terry had inherited a few of their wealth from his brother.
Gunvalson, nevertheless, appeared to double down on her hypothesis when she spoke with “VRT” earlier this month.
“If [the inheritance] I went to them, good for them. Personal it. “Yeah, now we have a heritage. “Whether or not it is $1 or $5, it would not matter,” Gunvalson mentioned. “I believe Heather ought to personal it if it is the reality, and if it isn’t the reality, then I misspoke.”
“The Actual Housewives of Orange County” airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo, with new episodes airing the subsequent day on Peacock.