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The ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ promo for next week revealed that secrets to Danielle Staub’s past could be found in an out-of-print (but suddenly very much in demand) book called “Cop Without a Badge” by New Brunswick native Charles Kipps. We tracked down a copy deep in the bowels of Rutgers Newark’s law library, and sure enough, it includes a mug shot of a woman named Beverly Merrill who looks astonishingly like Staub.

The book is about a former con named Kevin Maher who becomes an informant for the New York Police Department and the FBI, among other agencies, and who, along the way, leaves his wife and stepson for the morally ambigious charms of stripper Beverly Merrill.

Let’s meet Bev: “She was brunette. Long, perfectly shaped legs poked out of her leather hot pants just as provocatively as her braless breasts strained against her low-cut blouse.” And no, she wasn’t wearing any underwear. After she and Maher have “explosive sex,” he thinks to himself, “This is a good person.  source

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