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Mob Wives
Mob Wives series called Mob Wives: Chicago which is set to air in
Spring 2012.
Cast
Genre Reality
Starring Current Renee Graziano
Drita D’avanzo
Karen Gravano
Carla Facciolo
Ramona Rizzo (season 2 - )
Country of origin United States
Language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 11
Production
Executive producer(s) Jennifer Graziano
Banks Tarver
Ken Druckerman
Nina Diaz
Producer(s) JustJenn Productions
The Weinstein Company
Electus
Running time 42 minutes Cast
Broadcast
• is the daughter of Anthony Graziano, current
Original channel VH1 consigliere of the Bonanno crime family, and ex-wife
Original run April 17, 2011 – present of Hector "Junior" Pagan, Jr., who has been charged
with various crimes with the Mafia.[2][3][4] She
External links describes herself as a "loud, foul-mouthed drama
Official website queen".[5] The New York Post reports that her father,
Anthony Graziano, will no longer speak with her or
Mob Wives is an American reality television series airing her sister Jennifer (the creator of Mob Wives) as a
on VH1. It follows four Staten Island women after their result of their appearances on the show.[6] Her son
husbands or fathers are arrested and imprisoned for "A.J." has stated that he does not want to go into
crimes connected to the Mafia. They have been described "the life", and wants to go to university and become
as "rats and stoolies" since discussing private family busi- an engineer.
ness on TV violates the mafia code.[1] The idea for the • works as a freelance make-up artist and is of
show came from Jennifer "Jenn" Graziano, sister of Renee Albanian ancestry.[7] She is married to Lee D’Avanzo,
Graziano. who has been in and out of prison for such crimes as
Season 2 will premiere Sunday, January 1, 2012 at 8 drug dealing and numerous bank robberies[8] and
PM and with a new cast member, Ramona Rizzo, who is dated Karen Gravano before marrying Drita.[9]
a good friend of cast member Karen Gravano and is the • husband is Joseph Ferragamo, who is also
granddaughter of former well known mobster Benjamin incarcerated at the time of the airing of the series in
“Lefty Guns” Ruggiero. There will be a spin off of the hit 2011. Carla and Joseph have two children together.
According to the show, Carla wants a divorce from
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Joseph as soon as he gets out of prison. According to rather trivial after you watch the first five minutes
the U.S. Bureau of Prisons website, Ferragamo’s of Mob Wives."[17]
expected release date is 24 September 2011.[10]
• is the daughter of Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, a Criticism
former underboss of the Gambino crime family, and • Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro
federal informant.[11][12] She is also the ex-girlfriend stated; "I’ve seen it — It’s disgraceful. It paints Staten
of Drita D’Avanzo’s husband, Lee. While in the Island and Italian-Americans in a bad light. It’s
United States Federal Witness Protection Program, detrimental because people will think this is what
she was implicated in a drug ring and served three Staten Island is made of. I’m Italian — and this is bad
years of probation.[13] She states, on the show, that for our doctors, our lawyers, the people who came
she has returned to Staten Island to write an from Italy to build their lives".[18]
autobiographical memoir, ultimately titled In the • David Hinckley’s New York Daily News review called it
Shadow of the Bull. Discussions about the book and its a "tired concept, is so bad it should sleep with
first chapter, which Gravano shares with castmates fishes". The review also said "these are unpleasant
D’Avanzo and Graziano, caused controversy within people in an unwatchable show". On the other hand,
the show and outside it as well.[14][15] he wrote: "Now it could be added that if this is what
• (season 2-present) is the granddaughter of former you want on TV, Mob Wives is an all-you-can-eat
well known mobster Benjamin “Lefty Guns” buffet. Imagine the angriest of the "Real
Ruggiero, who was played by Al Pacino in the movie Housewives" ratcheted up into overdrive".[19]
“Donne Brasco”. Ramona is a childhood friend of • UNICO National, an Italian advocacy group, said the
Karen Gravano, and as children they shared show is tantamount to "trash TV like Jersey Shore. I
sleepovers, made their first communions together hope it dies because no one watches it. We were
and consider themselves so close they refer to mobsters and mafiosos with The Sopranos, bimbos
themselves as cousins. and buffoons with Jersey Shore, and now we’re back
where we started. It’s a disgrace".[20]
Reception • Gawker.com said "This seems like a terrible idea for a
reality show! Would anyone watch a show called
Praise Mass Murders’ Wives?"[21]
• Staten Island Advance’s SILive.com "Entertainment
• Entertainment Weekly’s television critic Ken Tucker Comment of the Day" April 25, 2011 was about the
praised the show in his review, stating, "As someone show. The comment was "Out of interest we only
who’s watched at least a few episodes of every watched about twenty minutes of the first episode
version of the Real Housewives franchise and feels a and couldn’t stomach watching the second. We don’t
bit nauseous about it, I didn’t come to Mob Wives with know what’s so interesting about a bunch of low-life
high hopes. But this floridly funny, vicariously women (the one pictured is a real piece of work) who
vicious reality series exerts a vulgar charm." He think that husbands that go off to prison is like
notes the fascination of watching excessively made- spending a year at college. I bet their kids are real
up people living in apparent luxury and the proud of them. Any glorification of a life of crime is
authenticity of the drama between the women. "By pathetic. They all deserve whatever misery that
turns funny, appalling, and frightening, Mob Wives is comes along".[22]
swiftly paced, reality-TV at its most effusively • They have been described as "rats and stoolies" since
dismaying." [16] discussing private family business on TV violates the
• The Hollywood Reporter critic David Knowles felt the mafia code.[23]
show was significantly better than typical reality TV.
He finds the women’s internal conflict between their Victims’ response
mob past and their desire to break free from that
lifestyle to be the underlying question of the series. • Relatives of murder victims killed by the cast
Knowles notes that the women’s story lines are so members relatives are not happy about the show.
tense and engrossing that the surveillance-style Jackie Colucci, whose brother Joseph was murdered
effect used to introduce them seems unnecessarily by Salvatore Gravano in 1970, stated: "She should be
cliché. "As we learned from The Sopranos, the wives ashamed that her father is a murderer and a drug
and children of mafiosos can be every bit as dealer. I would be ashamed and crawling in a hole
compelling as the gangsters themselves... As for and staying out of the limelight".[24]\
those other real housewives franchises, their endless
squabbles and social climbing antics are rendered
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Season 1 Season 2
Renee Graziano Y Y
Drita D’Avanzo Y Y
Carla Facciolo Y Y
Karen Gravano Y Y
Ramona Rizzo Y
Season Episodes Season Premiere Season Finale
1 11 April 17, 2011 June 26, 2011
2 12 January 1, 2012 March 2012
Cast History [11] http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2011/04/17/mob-
wives-renee-graziano-karen-gravano-drita-
davanzo-carla-facciolo/
Series overview [12] http://starcasm.net/archives/95831
[13] "VH1 ’Takes It to the Mattresses’ With Amped Up
Drama on New Series ’Mob Wives’". Fox News (New
Season 1: 2011 York Post). March 11, 2011.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/
Season 2: 2012 03/23/mattresses-new-vh1-series-mob-wives-
amps-reality-drama/. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
[14] "Mob Wives Season 1 Episodes". TVguide.com.
References http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/mob-wives/
episodes-season-1/325016. Retrieved 2011 July 11.
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#ixzz1Rnx2OrJM. Retrieved 2010, July 11.
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entertainment/29449110_1_real-housewives-
[7] Mob Wives » Cast › Drita D’avanzo: "Full Biography".
karen-gravano-mob-wives.
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cast_member.jhtml?personalityId=14733. Retrieved
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8 May 2011.
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[9] accessdate=8 May 2011 "VH1 ’Takes It to the
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Mattresses’ With Amped Up Drama on New Series
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silivecom_entertainment_commen.html
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Ep # Title Airdate US Viewers (million)
1 "Made in Staten Island
Made Island" April 17, 2011 1.4[25]
This reality series follows allegedly "connected" women and how their lives changed when their men go to prison.
In the opener, Karen Gravano, the daughter of Salvatore "Sammy The Bull" Gravano, returns to Staten Island after
10 years in Arizona.
2 "The Bitch is Back
The Back" April 24, 2011 1.406[26]
Drita gets news from prison; and Karen and Renee clash at Carla’s party.
3 "Mob Bust
Mob Bust" May 1, 2011 1.355[27]
The Feds make a huge mob bust, and Karen, Renee’s, and Drita’s world is completely turned upside down.
4 "Do You Know Who I Am?
Do Am?" May 8, 2011 1.204[28]
Renee hosts a psychic party; Carla loses control of her twins and considers telling them about their fathers incarcer-
ation.
5 "Unfinished Business
Unfinished Business" May 15, 2011 1.186[29]
Renee goes wild during a ladies night out; and Drita comes to terms with having a husband in prison.
6 "Dumb or Stupid
Dumb Stupid" May 22, 2011 1.495[30]
Karen and Drita continue to fued; and when Renee invites them to sit down and sort our their differences; tempers
flare and everyone comes to blows.
7 "Total Chaos
Total Chaos" May 29, 2011 1.064[31]
Carla and Renee Fight; and Karen’s and Drita’s unresolved issues heat up. Meanwhile, Carla prepares for her hus-
band’s return from prison; Karen awaits a visit from her daughter; and Renee goes looking for love in all the wrong
places.
8 "Relapses, Rats & Raccoons
Relapses, Raccoons" June 12, 2011 1.195[32]
Karen’s book deal makes news, and her progress on the book stalls; Drita tries to explain the concept of being a rat
to her daughter; and Carla prepares for her husbands release from prison.
9 "Take This Book & Shove it
Take it" June 19, 2011 1.151[33]
Carla’s husband returns after 6 years in prison; Renee learns of Junior’s deceit and faces a hard decision; and Karen
finishes the first chapter of her book and give it to Drita, which stirs up old animosity in Drita.
10 "Rumble On The Rooftop
Rumble Rooftop" June 26, 2011 1.308[34]
While Carla adjusts to life without a husband in jail, Renee is ready to turn a new page. Drita continues to steam
about Karen giving her the first chapter of her book and when stunning revelations about Lee surface, Drita is
pushed over the edge. When Drita attempts to lay it all out on the table during a sit-down with Karen and the other
women; all hell breaks lose!
11 "Reunion
Reunion" July 10, 2011 2.7[35]
They pushed each other to the brink; Now see additional footage as the cameras continue to roll and find out what
happens as all four Mob Wives come face-to-face for the last time.
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breakout-kings-game-of-thrones-the-killing-more/ • Mob Wives at the Internet Movie Database
94362/ • Roberts, Fiona (2011, June 20). "’Call me Mafia
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