Mob Wives Season Premiere (from 4/17)

First we have Renee Graziano - her father is Anthony Graziano who is currently incarcerated and is supposedly a high ranking mobster.

Apparently people kiss her ass because of who her father is.

I'm really distracted by her voice - she needs to clear her throat.


Karen Gravano is the daughter of Sammy the Bull who cooperated with the Feds and is considered the man who helped bring down the mafia. He's in prison.

Everyone has shunned her and she has restarted her life in Arizona. She's writing a book so she's going back to Staten Island. I am scared for her I think.  But then again, if she was really in any kind of danger from the mob, she wouldn't be doing a TV show on VH1. I'm suspicious.


Next is Carla Facciolo. Her husband is Joseph Ferragamo who is also currently incarcerated. Actually, he's her soon-to-be ex-husband. He's in prison for stock fraud.

They have 8 year old twins together who (up until today's premiere I'm assuming) don't know that their father is in prison, they think he's away at work.


Drita D'Avanzo's incarcerated husband is Lee D'Avanzo. He in prison for robbing a bank. Drita is Albanian and her family disowned her because she married Lee.

She is JACKED. She will beat someone up badly I think. Her arms are awesome. I'm a little scared of her.

Lee calls her from prison and gives her a shopping list of food to get him. At the end of his list of meat and cheese he says he wants a box of Ring Dings and a box of Twinkies. VH1 thought he said "Wing Dings" because in the subtitles that's what they put.  What the hell is a Wing Ding? LOL.


Drita and Carla are lifting weights at the gym and they discuss how when they go to visit their husbands in jail they know everyone in the visiting room. Nice.


Karen (in AZ) is finished packing for her move back to Staten Island. She is leaving her daughter there until she knows it is safe out in NY.

She's out with some friends to say goodbye. For some reason I think her Arizona friends glammed up the makeup for the night out because they are out with a mobster's daughter and on TV.



Drita, Carla and Renee are out to dinner/drinks together for girls night. They discuss prison since every man they know is there. They also discuss Karen coming back to NY. Renee cannot have any association with Karen because of her father being a rat.  Carla and Drita don't want to judge Karen for what her father has done. This should be interesting.

Actually in the opening credits the four women are walking together dramatically - so Renee is obviously associating with Karen. I feel like this is scripted.

Karen calls Drita when she gets back to NY and they are going to meet up to catch up. Apparently Drita married Karen's ex boyfriend (Lee) so they had a falling out. They meet up at a bar. Even though Karen was with Lee for seven years and lived with him, it is no big deal that Drita married him.


Carla is having a birthday party for herself. Renee doesn't want Karen there and Carla told her that she wasn't going to invite her. But when Drita calls she tells her that she is going to invite her.

Karen calls Renee a mob groupie when talking to Drita. I would be scared if I didn't suspect that this was scripted.


Tonight is the night of the party...lots of eyeshadow, blush, sequins, spraytans and heels. Renee is drunk soon, she's doing shots of petron. She has no idea that Karen is coming.

When Karen walks in Renee's jaw drops and she is pissed at Carla. She goes running out of the room which surprised me. She comes back out and calls Carla and Drita phony because they didn't tell her that Karen was coming.

Renee and her purple eyeshadow go outside to smoke a butt. Karen goes outside and confronts her. She tells her that she's weak minded and a gangsta bitch.

Karen has a good point. Renee said that her father (being a rat) destroyed families. However, so does just being in the mob in general. So Renee says rats destroyed families but mobsters that shoot people in the head doesn't destoy families?

I was pretty tame with this recap but this was just an intro to these ladies. The season looks crazy so we'll see where this goes!