Danielle Staub has a darker past than she talked about on Bravo’s “Real Housewives of New Jersey,” the New York Post says, citing federal court records posted by thesmokingggun.com.

Although she has admitted to a past criminal record she attributed to mistakes of her youth, Staub was accused in the mid-’80s of being more deeply involved than was previously thought in a kidnapping plot, a drug deal gone bad and an escort service, the court documents show.

–Elizabeth Jensen