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From  All About The Real Housewives : (Don't know how we missed this; from April 25, 2013) Earlier today Mob Wives star Karen Gravano claimed Carla Facciolo threatened VH1 saying, “I think Love wasn’t invited because Carla pretty much spoke to VH1 about not showing up if Love was invited. Carla’s threatening to sue and VH1 wanted to avoid any lawsuits.” Carla is now responding to those claims denying she threatened VH1 and revealing VH1 said no one is allowed to get physical this season! Carla tells AllAboutTRH EXCLUSIVELY, “First of all my lawyer spoke with VH1 and would never threaten them! Thats her first lie! Second it was in our contracts that there were to be no physical contact or u would be fired! That was all decided by VH1 after Karen & Ramona jumped Drita! So Love got herself fired from the show.” Carla continues, “If Love was going to attend the reunion no I didnt want to be part of it but it wasn’t my decision it was VH1. I wish I had that kind of power to...

Edgar Allan Poe wrote that the death of a beautiful woman is one of the greatest tragedies in all the dramatic arts. ( With thanks to my competitor , for making me aware of this story: Thanks, man. ) From the NY Daily News : The 26-year-old girlfriend of a prominent criminal defense attorney was discovered dead Saturday in his Philadelphia home. The victim — identified as Julia Law — was found naked and face down in the bathtub inside of lawyer A. Charles Peruto Jr.’s Center City condo, reported CBS affiliate KYW-TV . Sources said Peruto, 58, was in Avalon on the Jersey Shore when Law's body was found around 10 a.m. Peruto and the beautiful brunette were dating, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer . "Julia was a beautiful, caring free spirit hippy, who I was blessed to have known. Words can't express how sad I am to finally have met someone who I believed truly loved me," Peruto later said in a text message to the newspaper. He also posted to ...

There is reason to think Vito Rizzuto is under fire on more than one front -- not counting whatever is left of his war up  in Montreal (and Sicily ). There's gotta be a connection between the story below and this story ... The big question is: will Vito Rizzuto get picked up right smack-dab in the middle of all this? Someone who is a key player in the U.S. part of the drug ring who is probably facing a lot of years -- hell, decades -- had the boss's phone number on a slip of paper somewhere on his person... And if that isn't enough -- and it is, it is enough -- to make Vito lose sleep, there is always the overseas trouble brewing in the form of the  reaction in Sicily  to Rizzuto's supposed inclination to induct non-Italian men into his family... On some level this whole thing reminds me of the smack Salvatore Lucania had to deal with for working with members of the Jewish faith. Either Rizzuto is a true innovator ushering the Mafia into the 21st centu...

From  MafiaLife Blog : Of course, if you are a fan of the mob entertainment media, then you know Frank DiMatteo. You may have known him as Uncle Frankie, you may know him as Frankie D. You may have seen him on the Mob Wives show a few times, or being interviewed by Johnny P on his late night TV show. Maybe your a reader of his nationally distributed mob fashion magazine Mob Candy. Few of you around may still know him from distributing and working in the porn business with the famous Screw magazine. But, were not gonna talk about those experiences here. Today, I want to speak to you about Frank ‘Uncle Frankie’ DiMatteo the author. 2 years ago he wrote, and published the first of many books in a gangsters series, titled ‘Brooklyn Gangsters’. The book concept pretty much gives us in depth look at the area mobsters, with a twist. The twist is all about how Frankie relates to them all. Some he went out to dinner with. Some, he had inside scoop that has not been  published yet...