The Breakfast Club - AriZona Ice Tea no longer 99 cent? + Porsha Williams Ex Simone Guobadia Allegedly owes lawyers 200k

Episode Date: August 12, 2025

Porsha Williams, who was married for 15 months, says there were some things that weren’t adding up. And no one believed her! But… there’s a $200k lien on the house now… held by her ex husband Simone Guobadias former divorce attorney…. And then, the AriZona Tea brand is trying hard not to  increase the price of their 99 cent cans for the first time in 30 years!!! Trump may have left them with no choice …YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hey, y'all, what's up? It's Lauren LaRosa, and this is the latest with Lauren LaRosa. This is your daily dig on all things, pop culture, entertainment news, and all of the conversations that shake the room, baby. Now, today on the podcast, we're going to do it behind the scenes of the grind check-in because it's been a little minute since I checked in. And I am feeling excited. I don't know if I've ever, I feel like I used that before. I feel like I've said excited or anxious or something like that.

I have a trip coming up this weekend. I'm going to Puerto Rico. My cousin is getting married there. It's my first time being in a destination wedding and my first time at a destination wedding. And it's my cousin. So it's like, you know, just my family going to get together. We'll have a good time. It's just a weekend away, to be honest.

So I'm excited for that as I prepare, you know, like, originally you aren't really excited because the trip is like so far out. We've been talking about this for months. But now that it's here is days away, I am Rete. Ooh, I'm so ready to just be poolside. But let's get on into the latest. Let's still stay at work while we are here. So switching on over into the latest.

Now, let's talk Portia Williams from Real Housewives of Atlanta because I've reported a bit on her separation and then divorce, finally being a divorce, from Simon Gwobadia. Now, Simon was the guy or the man that Portia was in a relationship with. She, remember there was a whole debacle about whether she was dating him or should have been dating him or should not have been dating her because he was married to Fallon, who was another one of the girls on Real House House of Atlanta, who the whole story. storyline happened where it was like made it seem like her in Portia were friends, all the things, right? This is the Nigerian man that she's been married to. They were together for 15 months. Back in February, Portia filed for divorce after that 15 months because Portia said she felt like there was just some things that were not adding up for her, okay?

At all. Now, when she said that there was some things that were not adding up for her, she was very honest about what it was. She said that money wise and just, you know, different things about his citizenship and that type of stuff was it just wasn't making sense the sense wasn't making sense and portia was like look what from what she told us anyway she came over to the breakfast club and what she told us there was that she tried to talk to him she said you know i didn't want to leave him i thought that this was going to be forever and to be honest with y'all i know the housewives get a lot of like you know they get dragged for dating and how fast they you know marry and divorce and all the things not just the real housewives of Atlanta but all of the girls

on those franchise shows because people always feel like they're doing it for a storyline. I don't know Portia personally as personally as like a friend in her life or whatever just met her through our interview. But I feel like when we interviewed her, it felt sincere to me.

Now, Portia is an OG real housewife, right? So she's good at what she does. But it felt sincere to me. I felt like she really was in love with him. I felt like she really wanted to be with us, Simon. And I felt her disdain for like, look, I can't live my life not knowing what you really got going on. I have a daughter.

I have businesses. You know, I have a brand to protect. I need to know. And since I can't know that, and, you know, I'm basically living in fear of what I don't know coming back to haunt us. I got to get on about it here. And she's been very emotional about it. She was emotional on her housewives of Atlanta about it.

She's been emotional in interviews. She sat down and talked to People magazine and got teared up. Let's take listen to that. It's lonely. I can't connect with other men. And, you know, it's like people trying to introduce me, but it's just when it's not the same, it's not the same. I'm going to do it different this time. I'm going to be alone until I'm whole.

And then when I'm whole, then I will, you know, open myself back up so I don't make the same mistake again. When you go through a bad enough breakup, you're like, I don't like, nobody. I was sitting there. I was like, do I like women enough? Can I get with a woman? Like, who can come in and fill this void? Like, so I'm saying all this to say, I think. your girl, I think she really did love this man. I think she really did see, you know,

a future with this man. And it just went south. Now, the people have been dragging Portia for a long time about the fact that she decided to step away after these 15 months. They've been trying to make it seem like this is all for a storyline. But there was a story that broke today via us weekly. And the story, to me, in my opinion, just confirms everything Portia has been saying. Now, it's hell because Portia, I'm sure, was celebrating the fact that the divorce was final she's you know now legally single and all the things she got her home that you know him and her were arguing about the home baby girl got her seven million dollar home she able to film in a house life is good she's in atlanta she's doing the thing she's porto williams and then boom here comes

this lien against the house for over two hundred thousand dollars because according to simon's divorce attorney her name is on yema fieri please forgive me if i'm pronouncing a wrong um and And I've spoken to her as well. I've spoken to her several times, you know, she's reaching out on the reporting of all of this because she was Simon's divorce attorney in the divorce from Portia. Let me tell you how crazy this is,

how ironic this is, right? So Simon and Portia get divorced. Simon gets a divorce attorney to go through with the divorce. Simon loses that, like, argument around the divorce. He was trying to make it where the pre-nut wasn't going to be pursued. Like, the pre-nut was going to be, disregard it. He could get his home back. He wouldn't have to pay certain things. The judge said,

uh-uh. Nope, not too fast. Get that woman what she's asking for because you sign this agreement. This was a pre-up that you guys both agreed to. So Portia was able to keep the home. Basically, she was able to live in the home. And the home is in her possession, but it was two things she had to do. Either she had to buy the home or his portion of it from him outright. Or when she sold the home, 50% of the equity would be hers, but the other 50% would be. go to Simon. So she's in this home. Granted, I mean, even with all of that, what she'll probably do is decide to stay there, give the equity, whatever she decides to do, however that goes. But the irony of this is the same attorney that Portia was just battling in court to get away

and be disattached from Simon now has a lien on the home that she is in possession of and living in. And basically, the reason why this happened is because per the report, there's over 200,000 that was old to Miss Fierry and Simon's attorney and she got tired of trying to collect it. She went to a, she said, look, he owes me this money. I did my job, regardless if he's happy with the job I did or not, because Simon, I was told, was very upset when the judge decided to side with Portia and to uphold their pre-nup. Regardless, though, that's not your, I mean, I was going to say it's not your attorney's fault. Some people will argue that it is depending on how the attorney.

litigated or went about the case. But regardless, the attorney had a job to do, they did the job, you got to pay your attorney. I don't know what their agreement on the backing was. I did reach out to Ms. Fieri to just try and get some more clarity on how were the payments happening. Was this what you charged for the total, you know, duration of the mediation or the litigation of, you know, the back of the pre-up? Was this just a final payment? He owed you? What was the falloff? Like, what exactly happened where you got to a point where, because, you know, she obviously was still in communication with him. I've been told that he was going to kind of like attest the pre-up situation, like the ruling. Like, he wanted a judge to know that he wasn't happy with it, that he thought

that it should be taken back and reviewed again. And so there was going to be more work that this attorney had to do for him is basically my point. So how do we get from that to you owe me over $200,000 and the only way, the exact amount is $205,884.25 for services provided on his divorce from Portia Williams. How do you get from you're fighting for him and everything he's asking for in court to run my money, to where my money at? Hand out. Bigly. Now, I didn't hear back from her so I don't have the answer to that yet, but what she's doing is the attorney, she says, look, you had this house that's worth over $7 million, run me my $200K. So basically, they'll put the, they put the lien that's been put on the house. And what normally happens in the situation is

they will either wait again until Portia decides to sell the home or, you know, any money made from the home on the actual possession or ownership on the home, the lien will then be paid off. But it's just ironic because Portia did all this to separate herself from this man and his business and or lack thereof because he's claiming that he had this business worth over $290,000 and all of a sudden the business just makes no money, the business just doesn't exist. I mean, not that the business doesn't exist, but what Simon is saying is that when he got locked up by ice, he's been unable to keep the business afloat. He's been unable to make money and therefore he shouldn't be responsible for certain things financially. So Simon Gwobadi has this

company. It's called Simcoe. And the company is valued at two. $296 million, but Simon was basically claiming that because he was detained by ICE for all those months, he was unable to run the business. So they completely lost all of their value. A judge is like, I'm not buying that. It's no way you dissolve $296 million in a business over months of you being detained because you were living in a different country after a while. You were living in a different country. You were able to figure out the business and running the business. You just weren't here in the U.S. so that makes no sense so i don't know it seems to me like what portia was uh you know saying in the

beginning of this that people didn't believe her about like you know there's there's something going on here with the money with the numbers and i just don't want to be a part of it i know it's unfortunate she's probably so annoyed that she's still having to deal with the issues that are attached to her now estranged husband simon goobadia right but does this or does this not prove what she was saying she told john y'all didn't believe her y'all thought it was all for a story now boom she got to lean on the house that she fought so hard to live in and be able to film in found portia i need to get rid of this house i need to get out of here i need new energy i don't want unattached to him beautiful house though 15 000 square feet five bedrooms eight bathrooms

gorgeous home but i don't know it just for me moving into a new place a new job it's just like a reset and sometimes you need that after you know leaving a situation and maybe this is the sign Portia. Get out of there, girl. American history is full of wise people. What women said something like, you know, 99.99% of war is diarrhea and 1% is gory. Those founding fathers were gossipy

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Because what is happening right now is Arizona iced tea, you guys know, I hope you guys know, if you do not know, you need to go and try one. They've religiously always been 99 cents to the point where the branding of the can has 99 cents on the can. Like, it's just synonymous with Arizona iced teas. So they've been 99 cents, but now the owner of the company is having to consider whether or not the cans might increase in price. Now, if they were to increase, it's estimated that they would go to about $1.99

cent but for over 30 years they've been around since 1990 for over 30 years the cans have been 99 cent and now because trump and his tariffs the owner of the can is having to do some rethinking now nothing has been officially done yet this story came out a few days ago but it's starting to make the rounds because i don't know i think arizona iced teas y'all drink arizona i see anybody here yeah everybody in here say yes Arizona iced teas i think it had become such a staple and we didn't even know it. I'm trying to think like what else is like a staple. Oh, sunflower seeds. I feel like sunflower seeds were a staple too. It was like a corner store gas station staple. There were 25 cents. Y'all remember when David sunflower seeds used to be 25 cents?

Wow. I sound old. Y'all remember when the sunflower seeds used to be 25 cents. You know how your mom be like, because I remember when we used to pay $4 for cable. That's how we sound right now. But I mean, it's just what we're going through to be honest with y'all. Like sunflower seeds used to be 25 cents, that is no longer. The Arizona ICTs are still at this time, as of today, 99 cents. But the way Trump is set up, things may increase because Arizona ICT cans are made with aluminum. And a lot of the aluminum that they're made with are imported from Canada. So Trump back in June announced that he would be doubling tariffs on imported steel and aluminum to 50% from the 25% rate that was announced in February. Now, Arizona, the brand, uses more than

a hundred million pounds of aluminum a year for its cans, and about 20% of that comes from Canada. Now, the owner, his name is Mr. Votegio. Mr. Votegio, I am horrible with names. I hope I said that right. Mr. Votegio says that he's hopeful that, you know, the tariffs, the spew in the back and forth will settle and it'll be resolved, so he won't have to up anything. But he did say that if not, unfortunately, his customers are just going to have to pay the price. They're going to have to fill the price in their pockets. Now, this is like, you know, It made me begin to think, of course, we know the price of eggs have went up. We know just groceries in general have went up.

My grandmother was complaining to me the other day just about the utility bills, you know, being different prices and, you know, different things. And I think a lot of people and a lot of businesses are seeing exactly what Arizona IST is seeing right now. It costs more to do what you normally do. So you have to charge more to be able to sustain. Now, a brand like Coca-Cola, who also faced this issue because of the aluminum, they've done something really smart.

So Coca-Cola actually just decided to start relying more on plastic packaging when everything was announced with the tariffs because they didn't want to raise their prices. A quote from the company is that they wanted to continue to compete as affordable. So they leaned more into plastic packaging versus other resources that would have been affected by the tariffs. I think, and it's so crazy. that forget the nuclear bombs, forget everything else we'd have been through. Trump just called the National Guard in D.C. for no reason at all, besides, he woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Forget all of that, right? It's so much happening. It takes Arizona

iced tea to get to the people, to make us understand. It's real outside, y'all. Stay safe in these streets. Now, at the end of the day, I tell y'all every single episode, my low riders, It is, look, there's a lot of places and a lot of things to talk about because y'all could be anywhere with anybody talking about all of this stuff. But y'all choose to be right here with me every single episode. And I appreciate you guys for doing so. Find me in the streets and in the tweets. We outside, we outside, we outside in the tweets.

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whole time y'all oh y'all are portia williams in apology she was telling the truth the whole time i'll see you guys in my next episode Welcome to Pretty Private with Ebeney, the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free. I'm Ebeney, and every Tuesday I'll be sharing all new anonymous stories that would challenge your perceptions and give you new insight on the people around you. Every Tuesday, make sure you listen to Pretty Private from the Black Effect Podcast Network. Tune in on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. I'm Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, host of the Therapy for Black Girls podcast. I know how overwhelming it can feel if flying makes you anxious.

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