Lisa Hochstein turns herself in over alleged eavesdropping case

Lisa Hochstein turned herself in at a Miami-Dade jail on Wednesday and was booked at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a charge of interception of communication, a felony that puts a public divorce fight into the criminal justice system.

The 43-year-old reality television personality, known for “The Real Housewives of Miami,” was released on a $5,000 bond after her attorney, Jayne Weintraub, said Hochstein surrendered voluntarily. Jody Daniel Glidden, Hochstein’s former boyfriend, is also charged in the case and was arrested last week. Court records filed in Miami-Dade on March 19 allege that Hochstein and Glidden “did unlawfully and intentionally intercept, endeavor to intercept, or procure another person to intercept or endeavor to intercept” oral statements made by Lenny Hochstein and people he spoke with.

The allegation stems from an incident in 2023, when Lenny Hochstein accused his ex-wife and Glidden of planting a listening device under his car during the couple’s contentious divorce. According to an arrest warrant, Lenny Hochstein told investigators he found a digital audio recorder in his Mercedes after letting Lisa Hochstein borrow the vehicle. He reported the device to the Miami Beach Police Department, which opened an investigation. He also hired a private investigator who allegedly found records of Lisa Hochstein and Glidden on the device.

Police later reviewed the recorder and said they found 98 recordings on it, including one in which Lisa Hochstein and Glidden were talking before there was a “distinct sound of a device such as the hidden recorder being wrestled into place.” Both Hochstein and Glidden have been charged with interception of wire, oral or electronic communications.

Florida is an all-parties consent state, meaning it is illegal to record a private conversation without the knowledge of everyone involved. That legal standard is central to the case and to how prosecutors may have to prove intent if the charges move forward. For Hochstein, the booking adds another public record to a divorce that has already played out in South Florida media and on Bravo, while the court process now turns on the same rules that govern any other defendant accused of secret recording.