--- title: VIDEO: Bethenny Frankel Thinks Her Ex Wants To 'Destroy' Her description: The Real Housewives star is in a nasty court battle with ex-husband Jason Hoppy canonical: https://time.com/136217/bethenny-frankel-jason-hoppy-court-battle/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-29T15:41:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T08:06:42.296Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch: Bethenny Frankel Thinks Her Ex Wants To 'Destroy' Her og:description: The Real Housewives star is in a nasty court battle with ex-husband Jason Hoppy og:url: https://time.com/136217/bethenny-frankel-jason-hoppy-court-battle/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt87c1f09f78b2c3dd/6986913d169ab00cf227983c/frankel-1280x720.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Bethenny Frankel and Jason Hoppy og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch: Bethenny Frankel Thinks Her Ex Wants To 'Destroy' Her twitter:description: The Real Housewives star is in a nasty court battle with ex-husband Jason Hoppy twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt87c1f09f78b2c3dd/6986913d169ab00cf227983c/frankel-1280x720.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Bethenny Frankel Says Her Ex Wants To 'Destroy' Her by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video May 29, 2014 3:41 PM CUT  ''Aspen-ational' Episode 313 -- Pictured: (l-r) Bethenny Frankel, Jason Hoppy ''Aspen-ational' Episode 313 -- Pictured: (l-r) Bethenny Frankel, Jason HoppyZach Ornitz/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video May 29, 2014 3:41 PM CUT Bethenny Frankel, the former star of _The Real Housewives of New York City_, has been locked in a bitter custody battle with ex-husband Jason Hoppy. They are fighting for custody of their four-year-old daughter after the couple recently split up after almost three years together. Both parties have accused the other of being “fame hungry” and not putting their family first. According to Frankel, Hoppy had said “I’m going to destroy you. I’m going to have you and your publicist crying in a corner.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/136217/bethenny-frankel-jason-hoppy-court-battle/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/136217/bethenny-frankel-jason-hoppy-court-battle/"},"headline":"Bethenny Frankel Says Her Ex Wants To 'Destroy' Her","datePublished":"2014-05-29T15:41:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:06:42.296Z","description":"The Real Housewives star is in a nasty court battle with ex-husband Jason Hoppy.","url":"https://time.com/136217/bethenny-frankel-jason-hoppy-court-battle/","keywords":["celebrity","reality tv"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt87c1f09f78b2c3dd/6986913d169ab00cf227983c/frankel-1280x720.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt87c1f09f78b2c3dd/6986913d169ab00cf227983c/frankel-1280x720.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Bethenny Frankel and Jason Hoppy","caption":"''Aspen-ational' Episode 313 -- Pictured: (l-r) Bethenny Frankel, Jason Hoppy","creditText":"Zach Ornitz/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrity/","name":"celebrity"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/136217/bethenny-frankel-jason-hoppy-court-battle/","name":"Bethenny Frankel Says Her Ex Wants To 'Destroy' Her"}}]}] ```