Luann de Lesseps (born LuAnn Nadeau; born May 17, 1965) is an American socialite, television personality, model, author, and singer. In 1993, she married French entrepreneur and aristocrat Count Alexandre de Lesseps; they divorced in 2009 but she retained the courtesy title "countess" until her remarriage in 2016. In 2008, de Lesseps came to prominence after being cast in the reality television series The Real Housewives of New York City, which documents the lives of several women residing in New York City. She began headlining "Countess and Friends," a cabaret show of her own making, in 2018.
