Michaele Salahi

Tareq Salahi claims that Neal Schon ruined his entire life and is suing the Journey rocker, who ran off with his reality star wife Michaele, for $50 million dollars.

The lawsuit was just filed by Salahi in Virginia.

Tareq says he and Michaele Salahi were on track to make a huge fortune together from multiple reality TV shows including Dancing with the Stars ... yeah right.

According to the suit, they had an offer to participate on the Australian DWTS in 2011 ... for $150,000. Not a bad chunk of change, but a fortune? Really?

Plus, he claims, the White House party crashers also had an offer to appear on another network TV show in the U.S. Which he does not name, of course.

Tareq claims the TV shows pulled their offers when Michaele Salahi ran off with Neal Schon last fall, and that Schon waged a campaign to humiliate him.

Tareq says Schon used the affair to inflict suffering upon him, emailing a pic of his penis and calling him on the phone to tell him, "I'm f**king your wife!"

In the suit, Tareq claims, "The act was a metaphorical slap in the face." Negative points for filing a frivolous lawsuit, but bonus points for not saying "literally."

Tareq claims Schon humiliated him in public, too, as the publicity would increase interest in Journey's tour ... which resulted in a major attendance boost. 

Tareq is demanding at least $50 million for emotional distress, conspiracy to defame, interfering with a contract and defamation ... plus punitive damages.

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There have been so many shocking celebrity divorces lately, even by Hollywood standards. Not just breakups, but actual marriages crumbling before our eyes.

Some did surprise us more than others, but we can honestly say we didn't see any of these divorce filings - all from the last 12 months alone! - coming at all.

Which of these splits shocked you the most? Vote in our poll below ...

10. Zooey Deschanel and Ben Gibbard. The New Girl star and the Death Cab For Cutie member certainly seemed like a perfect match. Apparently not.

9. Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries. Okay, not all that surprising for myriad reasons we have been over ad nauseam on THG. But 72 days?! Idiots.

8. Tareq and Michaele Salahi. Like Kim and Kris, nothing about these two truly shocks us. Except her running off with Journey guitarist Neal Schon.

7. Leah Messer and Corey Simms. The stars of Teen Mom 2 seem so happy ... on the episodes that are still airing now! Well, not last night's. Still!

6. Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore. Seemed an odd fit at the start, but their split came totally out of left field. Now she's taking nitrous hits. Nitrous.

5. Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony. Apparently not the marrying type.

4. Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz. Remember them? We forgot too.

3. Katy Perry and Russell Brand. They're polar opposites, but were so crazy about each other and we thought it was just crazy enough to last forever.

2. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver. The heiress to the Kennedy political dynasty and the Governator seemed as rock solid as they come.

1. Heidi Klum and Seal. Still fresh, but as stunning as any other celeb divorce we can remember based on the couple's perpetual displays of love.

Which celebrity divorce filing shocked you most?

Tareq Salahi, we have the perfect woman for you.

It was practically an afterthought when Journey guitarist Neal Schon ran off with party crasher / reality star Michaele Salahi that he ditched a long-term partner as well.

One claiming she was "in a marriage-like relationship" with him and is owed a big payday as a result of his cheating ways, according to a lawsuit she just filed.

Ava Fabian, Playboy's Playmate of the month in August 1986, alleges she and the guitar great were together from February 2010 to September 2011, and wed this July.

Sources have said their Paris "wedding" was really just a "commitment ceremony" and not recognized as official under U.S. law, thus giving Neal legal wiggle room.

Not in Fabian's mind. The 49-year-old model-actress says she and the 57-year-old rocker accumulated joint property and income and that he agreed to support her.

She cites an "oral agreement" by which Schon would support her during the relationship and continue providing additional support for "a period of time" if it ended.

Michaele Salahi and Neal Schon didn't just run off and leave their partners, they humiliated them in the process ... and her estranged husband Tareq is suing over it.

Tareq Salahi is demanding his estranged wife and her rock star boyfriend cough up $17 MILLION DOLLARS for publicly humiliating him with their torrid, public affair.

Good luck with that. The legal basis, supposedly, is this:

Tareq's attorney claims that the adulterous duo profited unfairly off Tareq's misery and sabotaged his career in the process. The first part is a stretch. The second ... LOL.

The taunting, the $10,000 lingerie shopping sprees, the onstage make-out sessions, the pic of Neal's junk Tareq says he was emailed ... all salt in Salahi's wounds.

According to Tareq, all the buzz surrounding Michaele Salahi's affair with Neal Schon boosted ticket sales of Journey's recent tour, which she ran off to join him on.

All the while torpedoing Tareq's reality TV dreams. It's so sad really.

Making matters worse, Tareq claims Michaele and Neal have put the wheels in motion for their own reality show, leaving Tareq in the dust ... with $2 million of debt.

Tareq wants $17 million to compensate him. Don't hold your breath, T.

Tareq Salahi asked for this one.

His estranged wife may be a groupie slut, but she's got a rock star doting on her. Michaele Salahi's boyfriend Neal Schon just dropped more than $10,000 on lingerie for her during a Beverly Hills shopping spree this week.

Why did he do such a thing? Well, she had none left, seeing as ... 

OH YEAH: Neal is gonna be making that face a lot more after this.

Tareq sold off all her underwear and bras at an auction in a totally classy move not designed to get any publicity whatsoever. So much for their public truce.

Neal and Michaele hit up La Perla - a ridiculously expensive lingerie boutique on Rodeo Drive - this weekend. The Journey guitarist spent $10,496.55 there.

That got her 42 bras and 38 sets of panties ... at approximately $130 per item.

Sometimes it pays to be a groupie slut ... who rubs it in her husband's face.

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Tareq Salahi promises to stop saying Michaele Salahi is groupie slut.

The estranged spouses have agreed to suspend their very public, very nasty divorce proceedings while they try to hash out a settlement via private mediation.

An odd move, considering that even being heartbroken, you'd figure Tareq would love the attention. But apparently he wants this done privately and quickly.

Tareq Salahi filed a formal request to dismiss his divorce complaint earlier this month, and private mediation between the two is set to begin in November.

That's when Michaele's other man, Neal Schon, finishes up his tour with his band, Journey, and the groupie slut herself presumably has a freer schedule.

If the two can't reach an agreement during mediation, TMZ reports, Tareq is free to refile papers, meaning their "private" dispute could become public.

Odds of that happening are pretty good if you ask us. Why punt that much free publicity, especially when you're the "good" guy (relatively speaking).

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America's favorite groupie slut Michaele Salahi was in her element this weekend.

The former Real Housewives of D.C. star and her fairy tale rocker beau Neal Schon of Journey fame took their bizarre PDA to new depths/heights in Denver.

Neal and the band rocked "Happy Birthday" onstage for the whole world to see. If this doesn't make you tear up over their fairy tale romance, what will?!

Just magical. Except for Tareq Salahi. Fortunately he may be too wrapped up in trying to cash in on his misfortune with his new reality show to notice.

Anyway, watch the Journey ax man serenade his adulterous lover here:

Journey - Happy Birthday (to Michaele Salahi)

Tareq Salahi has “gone through so many emotions” since his wife Michaele Salahi and Neal Schon ran off together, he doesn't even know where to start.

But trust us, he'll talk you through every step as he picks up the pieces.

During a press conference for Celebrity Fight Night: An Alki David FilmOn Production, in which he'll be throwing down, Tareq spoke about why he’s getting involved in celebrity boxing and, of course, Michaele ditching him.

“After Michaele abandoned our home and our marriage, the house was just empty,” he explained. “I think it’s very good for the heart and the mind."

"I’ve gone through so many emotions from sadness and crying, ust trying to understand what went wrong with the marriage and her double life.”

Asked whether money played a role in their split, Tareq said:

“Yes, I think that played a part in it because here is the thing. We all have - in marriages, in relationships - we all have to have conversations about money and paying bills. So let's say you have a pot of money sitting there."

"Well, Michaele would say, ‘I want to go to plastic surgery on my lips, face and boobs,’ versus, ‘Well we got to pay the mortgage!’ I chose the house."

Just in case you were wondering if Michaele Salahi and Neal Schon would keep a low profile out of respect for their spouses since news of their random, sordid love tryst broke ... you obviously don't know much about Michele Salahi.

The lovebirds are flaunting their romance hard.

Spotted last night smooching backstage at a Journey show in San Antonio, Michaele Salahi and Neal Schon are smitten by their own fairy tale love story.

Salahi and Schon have been joined at the hip ever since she peaced out on Tareq Salahi, her husband of eight years, to take up with the Journey guitarist, her ex-lover.

Tareq is filing for divorce, after originally going to the press and law enforcement with the story that his wife, who was missing at the time, had been kidnapped.

It turns out she was in the "Open Arms" of Schon, leaving Tareq devastated ... and eager to tell every news outlet how hurt he is and what a groupie slut she is.

So it goes. Rock on, Michaele and Neal. Rock on ...

“You wrote in your book she had to choose between us - and that Tareq won. Guess you’ll have to rewrite that now - because I won!” - Neal Schon to The Daily Beast, regarding a recent book on Michaele Salahi

White House party crasher / reality star Michaele Salahi has stirred up quite a lot of gossip and controversy lately, and her husband, Tareq Salahi, has already spoken out about her running off with the Journey guitarist.

Now she's telling her side of it. Short story: It's all true, and she's happy.

The cheaters spoke to The Daily Beast exclusively in a series of interviews, via telephone and text, as Schon’s band continues on its cross-country tour.

“It’s like a fairy tale. It is, it really is,” Schon said from Tampa. “I’m very happy, very happy after waiting for her for 15 years. Now I want to get beyond all this media hype that Tareq has put out there. It’s quite embarrassing.”

Michaele actually dated both Neal and Tareq in the late '90s (Neal first) and there came a time she had to make a life decision - to marry Tareq.