Todd Nepola wants the world to know he is not a man in financial distress.
Consider Exhibit A: the $5.25 million villa he just purchased at the Ritz-Carlton Residences Miami Beach — for his ex-wife, Alexia Nepola.
The property, a 4,185-square-foot, three-bedroom residence designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Piero Lissoni, sits on the development’s largest interior villa lot. It comes loaded with floor-to-ceiling glass, a Boffi kitchen outfitted with Gaggenau appliances, Crestron smart-home technology and private marina access backed by full Ritz-Carlton service.
Todd, who handled the transaction himself, represented Alexia in the deal, sources told The Post. Devin Kay of the Exclusive Group at Douglas Elliman represented the seller.
The move comes a few months after Todd dropped a $10 million-plus defamation lawsuit against Bravo, NBCUniversal Media and production company Purveyors of Pop — the very machine responsible for “The Real Housewives of Miami,” the show that made Alexia a household name and, according to Todd, made him a villain.
His core grievance was the two seasons of programming that he alleged deliberately depicted him as financially irresponsible and in business trouble — a fiction, he argued, that anyone glancing at his real estate holdings could easily disprove. Like, say, a $5.25 million cash move on a Ritz villa.
“RHOM has continued to intentionally and maliciously air defamatory statements about Mr. Nepola and damage his reputation in the Miami business community,” the October filing read.
Todd also claimed his name and likeness were used on-air without consent, tacking on a separate $1 million claim and a request for a jury trial. His attorney Scott Weiselberg said simply, “enough is enough.”
Alexia and Todd were together seven years, married in December 2021 and spent their unraveling entirely on camera. Todd filed for divorce in April 2024; it was finalized in March 2025. In between, “RHOM” chronicled the whole messy stretch — the reconciliations, the ruptures, and everything producers chose to frame around them.
Todd says that framing was a lie.
The suit alleged the show “crossed the line between entertainment and defamation,” relying on manipulated storylines and unauthorized footage to construct a version of him that bore little resemblance to reality. Worse, he charged, the damage didn’t end when each episode aired. It spread — replicated endlessly across social media in a cycle the production, he claimed, designed and anticipated.
He had been telegraphing the lawsuit since August, when he posted a 10-minute Instagram video warning Bravo that a reckoning was coming.
He accused producers of enabling “gang-style pile-ons, physical violence, gaslighting and racially charged comments” without intervention. He was particularly incensed over how the show handled his relationship with Frankie, Alexia’s 28-year-old son from her first marriage, who has lived with a brain injury for years.
“The second you dared portray me as someone who doesn’t care about my stepson,” he said in video message, “you revealed who you really are.”
“Mr. Nepola wanted to be Alexia’s husband, not her storyline,” the suit said.
But, in December 2025, he dismissed his lawsuit against Bravo, with prejudice — meaning he won’t be able to revisit it in the future. It still remains unclear why he dropped the suit. The Post has reached out for comment.
