Daughter of late mobster John Gotti, ex-wife of her Dad’s right-hand man, and reality television star Victoria Gotti is thisclose to losing the home that became so famous in the “Growing Up Gotti” tv series. The house still has a $650,000 mortgage with $25,000/month payments. The woman who has never seen a fur coat or a diamond ring she didn’t like blames the financial pickle she’s in on her ex-husband, Carmine Agnello. Evidently, he went behind her back and took out an $856,000 loan on the house and then gave her sole ownership of the property.
"You Guys, We Are Totally Poor Here, Ahright?"
Hate to say it, Vicky, but when you lie down with dogs…
Anyway, she can’t turn to other family for help, since he brother, John, Jr. is preparing for trial on murder and racketeering charges. He needs to save his pennies for his high-priced lawyers. He ex-husband claims to have no money to even pay child support, leaving the three sons he shares with Gotti without hair gel and gold chains. Since his own release from prison after serving eight years on racketeering charges, he has moved to Ohio and opened up another Agnello franchise with another woman in another pricey house. He has not paid any child support or alimony, even telling son John that he couldn’t afford to send the boy to law school. It’s a shame. Those folks could sure use a good lawyer.
Evidently, Agnello still owes the government nearly $10 million in back taxes, but is being allowed to live comfortably in the Midwest while Victoria struggles to keep Mystic Tans on her 3 boys. She has said, “There are just too many fathers who walk away from their responsibilities, and unfortunately my husband is one of them.” Color me shocked.
The mansion in question, once valued at $4.2 million, has been reduced to only $3 million because upkeep has not been high on Victoria’s to-do list. The house is in desperate need of a paint job and some landscaping. Last time I heard, the woman has three healthy sons. Where’s the issue? But these boys have been outrageously pampered during their young lives, being the grandsons of a famous mafia Don, rubbing elbows with the rich and famous, and vacationing in exotic locations with no one to supervise except the reality television staple “inappropriate guardian” and several video cameras to capture any ensuing hilarity.
The dream would be that Victoria and her boys would have to get legitimate jobs, but the reality is that, somehow, she will end up in that mansion, draped in her diamonds and wearing $700 sweat suits, yelling at the boys to do things they won’t do, just as they did when they were being filmed.
And if Carmine Agnello is really, really lucky, he will not have to ‘sleep with the fishes’.