Real Housewives Of Potomac star Michael Darby charged with assault for pinching cameraman’s behind

Real Housewives Of Potomac star Michael Darby has been charged after he pinched the buttocks of a cameraman on the show.

The reality star has been hit with charges of felony assault as well as misdemeanor improper sexual contact, according to a report on TMZ.

Darby is alleged to have grabbed and groped the buttocks of the cameraman, who was recording material on September 1 at the time of the incident.

Charged: Real Housewives Of Potomac star Michael Darby, seen with wife Ashley, has been charged with felony assault for pinching cameraman’s buttocks

The cameraman, Orville Palmer, claims that after feeling Darby grope his rear, he turned round, and received what he called a ‘flirtatious look’ from Darby.

Telling the Australian-born real estate mogul to ‘stop’, he then informed his supervisor.

The maximum punishment for the charged crimes in 11 years in prison.

On the show: Worth an estimated $20million, Darby, 57, is married to 28-year-old Ashley, who was Miss Washington DC 2011; he now stars on Real Housewives Of Potomac

On the show: Worth an estimated $20million, Darby, 57, is married to 28-year-old Ashley, who was Miss Washington DC 2011; he now stars on Real Housewives Of Potomac

Worth an estimated $20million, Darby, 57, is married to 28-year-old Ashley, who was Miss Washington DC 2011.

Ashley met Michael, who is 29 years her senior, when she was just 18 years old.

After four years of dating the pair married and at 22-years-old Ashley became stepmother to Michael’s then 21 and 24-year-old children. 

A graduate of the University Of Melbourne, Darby co-founded the successful Monument Realty in Washington, D.C. in 1998.

His firm has developed more than 6.5million square feet of real estate.

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