• 'The Real World: San Diego' hires off-duty police for crowd control

  July 15, 2011
  Producers of MTV's "The Real World" have hired two off-duty San Diego police officers to maintain order at the mansion where the reality show is taped.
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  'The Real World: San Diego' cast reflects on Frankie Abernathy's death

  June 15, 2007
  Frankie Abernathy didn't make it through the entire season as a housemate on MTV's The Real World: San Diego in 2004.  However she still spent enough time with her fellow housemates to become close with them -- especially Jacquese Smith -- who said he was "shocked" Monday to learn Abernathy had passed away over the weekend.
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  'Real World: San Diego' cast member Frankie Abernathy dead at 25

  June 12, 2007
  Former The Real World: San Diego housemate Frankie Abernathy has lost her battle with cystic fibrosis and died at age 25.

• Authorities decline to file charges in alleged 'Real World: San Diego' rape case

  July 26, 2004
  The San Diego County District Attorney's office has announced that after an eight month investigation, they will not file charges regarding a November 2003 allegation that a woman was raped in The Real World: San Diego house.

• Pioneering reality TV producer Mary-Ellis Bunim dead at 57

  January 30, 2004
  Mary-Ellis Bunim, the pioneering Bunim-Murray Productions co-founder and co-creator of numerous reality TV hits, including MTV's The Real World, has died. Bunim, 57, died in Burbank, California on Thursday after a long battle with breast cancer, her publicist said.

• MTV's scandal-filled 'Real World: San Diego' premieres January 6

  January 4, 2004
  The Real World: San Diego, the latest scandal-filled installment of MTV's The Real World will premiere on January 6, and if the police reports filed to date are any indication, it's going to be a drama-filled -- and possibly deeply disturbing -- season.

• Police raid 'Real World: San Diego' house after date-rape allegation

  November 26, 2003
  The real world met The Real World this month ... and the result isn't pretty.

• 'Real World: San Diego' housemate Robin Hibbard arrested after on-camera nightclub fight

  September 5, 2003
  The cast of Real World San Diego isn't wasting any time establishing its outlaw credentials. According to The Smoking Gun, RWSD houseguest Robin Hibbard, a 23-year-old Florida bartender, was arrested on Tuesday, September 2, for punching and scratching a male U.S. Marine while partying with her new castmates and a camera crew at a San Diego nightspot.

• 'Real World San Diego' house located, photos posted

  September 4, 2003
  The "Real World Houses" website reports that it has located and photographed the San Diego house being used by MTV's The Real World San Diego, which started production during August.

• Next edition of MTV's 'The Real World' to film in San Diego

  July 17, 2003
  We still don't know where MTV's Real World/Road Rules Challenge will film, since it's been rejected twice by Rhode Island. But, according to TV Guide Online, we know where the 14th season of its parent, the pioneering MTV reality show The Real World, will be filmed: San Diego, California.

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