Mauricio Umansky Claps Back at Paris Hilton Over Rick Drama: "It's Sad"

Mauricio Umansky is now addressingemthose/emcomments made about him by hisniece, a href="https://www.bravotv.com/all/paris-hilton" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Paris Hilton/a, following what he said about her dad, Rick Hilton, in a preview for the new season of emBuying Beverly Hills,/em which made the rounds last week. Since then, Mauricio has called her response "sad" amid the family drama./p pIn fact, Mauricio shed new light on the issues within his family and the uproar his comments made in an interview witha href="https://www.etonline.com/mauricio-umansky-addresses-paris-hilton-drama-after-sharing-family-rift-on-his-show-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emEntertainment Tonight/em/a, released this week,in which he also defends himself./p pstrongDon’t miss out on the latest Bravo news:/strong/p pa href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/paris-and-nicky-hilton-birthday-tribute-to-kathy-hilton" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"strongParis and Nicky Hilton Share Tribute to "OG Queen" Kathy Hilton on Her 65th Birthday/strong/a/p pa href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/alexia-umansky-reflects-on-moving-out-of-kyle-mauricio-house" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"strongAlexia Umansky Opens Up About Her "Really Emotional" Move Out of Kyle and Mauricio's House/strong/a/p pa href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/did-mauricio-cheat-on-kyle-richards-how-she-lost-trust" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"strongKyle Richards Breaks Her Silence on Rumors Mauricio Cheated: "I Hit a Breaking Point"/strong/a/p h2Mauricio Umansky's response to Paris Hilton's comments/h2 div alt="Split of Kathy Hilton, Rick Hilton, Kyle Richards, and Mauricio Umansky." caption="Kathy Hilton, Rick Hilton, Kyle Richards, and Mauricio Umansky." data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="375f11e1-c10d-457b-be87-ea9863f080f6" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:862px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.bravotv.com/sites/bravo/files/styles/scale_862/public/2024/03/rhobh-kathy-hilton-rick-hilton-kyle-richards-mauricio-umansky.jpg?itok=a6PpkvH-" width="862" height="575" alt="Split of Kathy Hilton, Rick Hilton, Kyle Richards, and Mauricio Umansky." typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" pKathy Hilton, Rick Hilton, Kyle Richards, and Mauricio Umansky./p /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Phillip Faraone/VF24/Getty Images; Jesse Grant/Getty Images /span /div /div /div /div pIn case you missed it, in the widely circulated clip for emBuying Beverly Hills/em,ema href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills/a/emhusband, who is currently separated from wife, a href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/kyle-richards" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Kyle Richards/a, talked about his decision toleave a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/mauricio-umansky-things-you-didnt-know-about-kyle-richards-husband" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Hilton Hyland/a, and sever his working relationship with his brother-in-law (and a href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/kathy-hilton" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Kathy Hilton/a's husband), Rick. Aftera data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/kathy-hilton-kyle-richards-talk-mauricio-leaving-hilton-hyland" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/kathy-hilton-kyle-richards-talk-mauricio-leaving-hilton-hyland" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/kathy-hilton-kyle-richards-talk-mauricio-leaving-hilton-hyland" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" leaving that real estate agency/a, Mauricio went on toa href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/rhobh-mauricio-umanskys-family-by-his-side-for-career-milestone" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"start The Agency/a in 2011./p pParis later defended her father, Rick, in a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C4bfDwbP2dr/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"comments section/a of an Instagram fan account after the clip went viral, noting her frustration with Mauricio after her dad "has always taken the higher road" and would "never talk negatively about his family — especially in the press... Frankly, we are all sick of him using the Hilton name every chance he gets to plug his lame show. It's enough already."/p pIn an interview with emET's /emBrice Sander released on March 18, Mauricio acknowledged that his niece was hurt by his comments. "Look, it's sad she got so upset about that, but at the end of the day, it's two businessmen making business decisions," he said./p div alt="Paris Hilton on Watch What Happens Live." caption="Paris Hilton as a guest on Watch What Happens Live in New York City." data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="161d3253-bf03-4f96-9550-2d7da4185f10" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:862px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.bravotv.com/sites/bravo/files/styles/scale_862/public/media_mpx/thumbnails/bravo-video.nbcuni.com/image/NBCU_Bravo/891/827/ParisBrit__376099.jpeg?itok=WMQv9I_X" width="862" height="485" alt="Paris Hilton on Watch What Happens Live." typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" pParis Hilton as a guest on Watch What Happens Live in New York City./p /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Bravo /span /div /div /div /div pMauricio went on to talk again about his decision to leave Hilton Hyland more than a decade ago./p p"I felt like I deserved something," he explained. "I asked for something, he didn't want to do it, and then I chose to go off on my own. I wanted to care for my family, I wanted to be successful, I wanted to go forward, I wanted to do the most I could, and at the end of the day, I made that decision to go forward with this thing. There is certainly no bad blood on my side."/p h2Mauricio Umansky's comments about leaving Hilton Hyland/h2 div alt="Mauricio Umansky on the TODAY show." caption="Mauricio visits the TODAY Show on June 20, 2023." data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="0ee79b94-a97f-45c0-a0d6-5066a17d45f7" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:862px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.bravotv.com/sites/bravo/files/styles/scale_862/public/2024/03/mauricio-umansky.jpg?itok=W5DbqsNY" width="862" height="575" alt="Mauricio Umansky on the TODAY show." typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" pMauricio visits the TODAY Show on June 20, 2023./p /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Nathan Congleton/NBC /span /div /div /div /div pIn the virala href="https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1767566218360205744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1767566218360205744%7Ctwgr%5Ebfb3ec1c764fcc00666a1013f35c9be2478a05d1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpeople.com%2Fembed%3Furl%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2Fnetflix2Fstatus2F1767566218360205744id%3Dmntl-sc-block_1-0-6-iframeoptions%3De303DdocId%3D8608338" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"clip/awhich made the rounds last week, Mauricio elaborated on his decision to leave the real estate firm, co-founded by his brother in law./p p"So I think I kind of got f—cked by Hilton Hyland," he said. "And when I say f—cked, you know, like, today, I'm happy. But there was a hundred agents at Hilton Hyland. They did a billion dollars for the first time a year. I was 19.6 percent of their production. I went to Rick and said, 'I'd really like equity, right, and to be a partner.' He went back, talked to Jeff [Hyland], he got back to me, and basically, I was told 'no'. Then I went home, I talked to Kyle, I go, 'This is really going to cause a lot of stress between you, your sister, and your family, and I don't want to do this move of leaving and starting a company if you're not comfortable."/p pKyle gave Mauricio the go-ahead, which he noted, had a negative impact on her family. "She stood by me, and at the end of the day, I needed that," he explained./p pMauricio also spoke in lengths about this in a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/real-estate/mauricio-umansky-rick-hilton-rift-dealmaker-book-1235370546/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"his first book/a,emThe Dealmaker: How to Succeed in Business Life Through Dedication, Determination, Disruption/em, published in 2023./p h2Andy Cohen's thoughts on the drama between Mauricio Umansky and Kathy Hilton's husband/h2 div alt="Split of Andy Cohen and Mauricio Umansky." caption="Andy Cohen and Mauricio Umansky both at Watch What Happens Live in New York City." data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="6a0fdf01-9098-49ca-b419-d4b37aa0ce03" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:862px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.bravotv.com/sites/bravo/files/styles/scale_862/public/2024/03/andy-cohen-mauricio-umansky.jpg?itok=-K6h8laC" width="862" height="575" alt="Split of Andy Cohen and Mauricio Umansky." typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" pAndy Cohen and Mauricio Umansky both at Watch What Happens Live in New York City./p /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Charles Sykes/Instagram /span /div /div /div /div div data-embed-button="related_content" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:node.embed" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="2cc9b91b-4958-457f-87bd-d7d94d8c80fe" data-langcode="en" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" class="embedded-entity"h2 class="headline" a class="embed-in-feed" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/kyle-richards-kathy-hilton-after-rhobh-season-13-reunion" Where Kyle and Kathy Stand After RHOBH Reunion and the Drama Between Their Husbands /a /h2 /div pa href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/cast/andy-cohen" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Andy Cohen/a weighed in on the drama during the March 13 broadcast of his radio show,a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxzP6eEj3Ow" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emRadio Andy/em/a, where he a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/andy-cohen-reacts-to-kathy-hilton-husband-mauricio-umansky-feud" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"shared his thoughts/a about the family drama. Andy said he believed that Kyle never spoke about Mauricio's issues with his former firm, because of a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/rhobh-season-13-reunion-spoilers-kyle-richards-kathy-hilton-drama" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"her relationship with her sister/a, Kathy./p p"I think that, in the case of this Hilton Hyland stuff, I can't speak for Kyle on any level, but my gut is that there was probably [only] so far she wanted to go on her show because she didn't want to further complicate an already-complicated relationship with her sister, so there you go," Andy said./p p"But I did take the opportunity [on Part 3 of the emRHOBH /emreunion] as we were discussing what happened with Mauricio and Kyle's marriage, to also find out from Kathy and Kyle from their perspective what happened with the split between Mauricio and Rick Hilton..." he added/p pDuring theemRHOBH/emSeason 13 reunion, Kathy spoke on a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/kathy-hilton-kyle-richards-talk-mauricio-leaving-hilton-hyland" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"where she stands with Mauricio/a today. "Even though you go through things with people, he's my family," she said. "He's my nieces' father."/p pWatchemThe Real Housewives of Beverly Hills/emon a href="https://www.peacocktv.com/watch/asset/tv/the-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills/5893707088515488112?orig_ref=https://www.bravotv.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Peacock/a./p