“Real Housewives of New York City ”Alums Dorinda Medley, Luann de Lesseps and More to Make Appearance During D.C’s Biggest Weekend

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• Alumni of the Real Housewives of New York City and cast members of the upcoming E! series The Golden Life are slated to attend a White House Correspondents’ Dinner after-party hosted by MS NOW on Saturday, April 25

• The network is hosting its “Democracy After Hours — The Underground After Party” in a subterranean former trolley car station in Washington’s Dupont Circle neighborhood

• The reality TV stars’ trip to Washington makes them among only a handful of celebrities who plan to attend this weekend’s WHCA events

Alumni of the Real Housewives of New York City are headed to the capital for one of Washington’s biggest weekends.

Luann de Lesseps, Dorinda Medley, Kelly Bensimon and Sonja Morgan are set to make an appearance at a White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner after-party hosted by MS NOW on Saturday, April 25, multiple Washington sources tell PEOPLE.

The network is hosting its buzzy new after-party, “Democracy After Hours — The Underground After Party,” in a once-abandoned subterranean trolley car station in Washington’s Dupont Circle neighborhood. The WHCA event is MS NOW’s first since splitting from NBCUniversal in November.

Sources tell PEOPLE that construction crews have been working since Tuesday to build out the 15,000-square-foot event space.

Luann, Dorinda, Kelly and Sonja, all longtime fixtures of Bravo’s Real Housewives franchise, joined the cast of E!’s upcoming docuseries, The Golden Life, earlier this year. The RHONY spinoff set in Palm Beach, Fla., is currently in production and slated to premiere later this year.

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Their trip to Washington makes them among only a handful of celebrities to attend WHCA events this weekend. Hollywood is largely steering clear of the nation’s capital this year, multiple sources tell PEOPLE, though rapper Nicki Minaj will attend the dinner on Saturday as a guest of Fox News.

President Donald Trump will also attend the dinner for the first time as president, after a nearly decade-long boycott. Trump was the first sitting president in more than 30 years to skip the event when he declined an invitation in 2017, his first year in office.

Representatives for MS NOW and The Golden Life declined to comment on PEOPLE’s sourcing about the celebrities’ attendance.

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