CNNews Poll: Who's the Most Hated Mob Wife of All?
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| Renee, giving props where due, is the most popular. |
Karen Gravano won the dubious distinction.
Ramona Rizzo is not too far behind.
After only three-four appearances on the show, that is quite a remarkable feat.
Anyone could vote in this, and all, Cosa Nostra News polls; in this one, readers could vote for one or two wives, and they could change their votes up until the final moments before the poll closed.
I am a bit surprised that Renee could be seen as most loved in that the least amount of people "hate" her -- 38 people, or 11% of the voters. I give her kudos for talking about her depression issues on television. Depression is a major problem in the U.S., and the more the "stars" with the bully pulpits address problems such as this one, the better for society, I believe.
Drita and Carla fared much, much better than Gravano and Rizzo, running about neck-and-neck with each other, close behind Renee -- with 18% (61 votes) and 17% (60 votes), respectively.
Now, I'd like to address some comments below: To Anonymous (Feb. 3): Is that the mugshot you mention, now up above in this post? (Do I respond to my readers or what!) What you said is spot on and well put.
Did you notice how not a single tear dripped from Karen's eyes while she basically told her daughter to f---- off, that she was getting shipped home alone no matter how she felt; then we get the tiny "outburst" later, when KG is telling the story - to Ramona and/or Renee. She seemed to not only stick it in the poor daughter, but twist it, too, as if trying to squeeze as much emotion out of the young girl as she could for the cameras.
As for the comment from Anonymous (Jan. 27), I now detect the sarcasm you injected... I admit I missed it at first. Up above in this post, you see that I wrote "Ramona Rizzo should take note: After appearing on only three episodes, she is the second most-hated "wife" though I don't know which mobster she is married to. Or Karen, for that matter."
So Jan. 27 anony's comment was really a dig. Well, it was a pretty stupid comment, anony. Does anyone NOT KNOW that Junior Pagan -- the Bonanno associate once tight with Renee's father, "TG" Graziano, until Pagan flipped -- was married to Renee? (Okay, they are divorced now, but Renee is a Mob Wife, as is Drita, who you also chose to single out.
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Which Mob Wife Do You Hate the Most
153 (45%)
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38 (11%)
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61 (18%)
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60 (17%)
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108 (32%)
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Votes so far: 334
Poll closed
Poll closed
As for Drita's soon-to-be ex, we know the following about Lee D'Avanzo: In December of 2001, just as terrorism was co-opting the Fed's attention: "The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York indicted members of the New Springville Boys gang from Staten Island, which prosecutors alleged was a mob farm team for the Bonanno and Colombo crime families. The crew was charged with burglarizing over 30 night-deposit boxes at banks across the country, netting $240,000, committing push-in robberies, loan sharking and money laundering. They were also charged with hijacking a truckload of marijuana worth over $1 million, and selling drugs in their neighborhood. Members included leader Lee D'Avanzo..."
Indicted with Lee were Ned Bilali, Robert Catanese, Randy (Randy The Jew) Gordon, Francis Costanzo, William "Big Billy" Fauci, Joseph "Fat Joe" Gambino, and Edward Shamah.
Sorry, anony, Drita's a legit Mob Wive too, as opposed to a Mob Daughter or Mob Grandaughter...You gotta get up pretty damn early in the morning to try to make me look like an idiota... Let's see -- what do YOU know about Carla's hubbie, or ex-hubbie? Mettere il proprio denaro in cui si bocca!
Ramona has told Hollywood Life website: After seeing how hurt her family was when her grandfather went to prison, Ramona decided she wanted out of the lifestyle; and she got as far away as she possibly could, marrying and having children with an Arab man from Jordan.
“Everything I went through, I didn’t want to marry Italian,” Ramona explains. “If [I had] a boy, he could possibly be in the lifestyle.” [Whoa - so she thinks all Italians are mobsters! Lefty's granddaughter says this!]
But Ramona’s 10-year non-Italian marriage brought its own issues and problems, ending with her struggling to get a divorce and fighting to get her kids out of the country of Jordan. “The last time I was in Jordan was to get divorced,” she told Hollywood Life. “I went there for two-and-a-half years.” Ramona is now raising her four children — Giovanni, 13; Anissa, 12; Melina, 11; and Gianna, 7 — on her own in the United States.