Meet the new 'Mob Wife' Love Majewski speaks perfect Hebrew — but you’ll never guess why By MICHAEL SHAIN December 20, 2012
The newest member of the “Mob Wives” crew has really been there all along.
Love Majewski has been just off-camera during the first three seasons of VH1’s addictive mob opera, set on Staten Island.
She has known and hung out with most of the “wives” for more than 20 years.
For three seasons now, the show’s producer’s have had to cut her out of shots and dialogue because viewers did not know who she was.
The only question is why it took this long to add a character with a name that sounds like a comic book hero’s girlfriend.
Truth is, Love’s boyfriends are more likely to come out of the pages of Jerry Capeci’s on-line Mafia column, Gang Land.
And she has the FBI dossiers to prove it.
In the 1990s, she went on the lam to Israel — which curiously has no extradition treaty with the US — to avoid having to testify against ex-boyfriend Ray Merolle, whose car-theft operation reportedly inspired the film “Gone in 60 Seconds.”
That was after years spent with club king (and mob associate) Chris Paciello, famous for rubbing shoulders with Madonna in the 1990s and then turning mob canary to keep himself out of jail on a murder charge.
In all, she spent nearly four years in Israel, avoiding federal subpoenas — and violent ex-BFs who might worry that she would flip.
“I actually speak fluent Hebrew,” she said of her years in Tel Aviv. “That’s how long I was gone.”
During her years there, Love, now 41, says she wised up.
She has boiled her hard-knocks knowledge down to a single piece of advice for girls who are dazzled by “The Life” — the expression the ‘Mob Wives” use on the show to mean the world of cars, furs and racketeering trials:
“If your man is not at work on Tuesday at 2 in the afternoon, you have a problem,” she says.
Even though she is not Italian — “Russian Polish, I think they call us” — Love fits in easily with the rest of the cast: Drita D’Avanzo, Carla Facciolo, Karen Gravano, Renee Graziano, Ramona Rizzo and especially fan-favorite Big Ang. It is not her first time in front of the cameras.
In 2011, she appeared on an Investigation Discovery series called “I Married a Mobster,” telling her story — and doing make-up for the rest of the cast.
Love’s official bio lists her as a celebrity make-up artist now. Sharon Osbourne and soap star Fiona Hughes have been among her clients.
But she is most proud of building her own small line of high-end cosmetics. “I taught myself how to do everything out of one of those ‘Small Business for Dummies’ books.” she says.
The show, which begins its new season next month on VH1, will not let her talk about what happens this year. “All I can tell you” she says, “is that I’m buffer between Drita and Karen,” who have had some epic brawls on the show over a guy both used to be with and now profess to care nothing about.
I watched the first few episodes of this show its 1st season. It's screaming, foul-mouthed women; how unique! Their mob affiliations have little to do with the show's substance which, again, is screaming, foul-mouthed women. It's embarrassing.
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#685075 12/23/1201:49 AM12/23/1201:49 AM
Could anyone imagine if Playboy did a spread on them. Drita would be nice but renee and karen Big Ang they'll give her own spread but shes more suited for Penthouse.
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#685083 12/23/1205:29 AM12/23/1205:29 AM
They should try to find Philly women..And some of you know Margate beach is just as good if not better than Datona Miami or LA beaches..and most of em are from south philly or washington twp Nj..Ramona Drita and her friend are playboy worthy..
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#685084 12/23/1207:02 AM12/23/1207:02 AM
How I hate this show, I mean really this to me is as bad as Jersey Shore and so on. They TV reality shows are pointless in my opinion and a waste of money.
Tony Soprano : I thought I told you to back off Beansie!
Richie Aprile : I did, Then I put it in drive..
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#685912 12/28/1210:06 PM12/28/1210:06 PM
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Originally Posted By: carmela
The guys that say how much they hate this show seem to know more about it than anyone else.
honestly it's like a horrific car crash, you dont want to look but u cant help it kinda? i dont watch it but i have,to give it a shot,but i couldnt handle it
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#685984 12/29/1201:34 PM12/29/1201:34 PM
I've only ever seen the vid snippets that are put up here so I have no idea.
As an aside: I have a friend who keeps inviting me to that Drunken Monkey bar. She's friends with big Ange. Except its on Wednesdays and I think that is for ladies only. Ahem.
La madre degli idioti e' sempre incinta.
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#685991 12/29/1201:52 PM12/29/1201:52 PM
carmela,you may meet my wife there!lol.but seriously everyone is friends with big ange a lot of people who watch they show really dislike her,but theyve never been around her.im not saying im her best friend,but i have met her a few times.and shes always been friendly.my wifes friends love to go there..too much im my opinion.lol. my wife was at the bar during some party that was on the show [big ang],where ange takes body shots off some shirtless cuban guy.lol.
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#686009 12/29/1202:23 PM12/29/1202:23 PM
Lol. I'm not planning on going. My friend is promoting this new Wednesday night thing they have going on and Ange is usually there. But only recently I realized that ladies nite is for women hooking up with women. It takes me awhile to catch on.
La madre degli idioti e' sempre incinta.
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[Re: carmela]
#686011 12/29/1202:45 PM12/29/1202:45 PM
Lol. I'm not planning on going. My friend is promoting this new Wednesday night thing they have going on and Ange is usually there. But only recently I realized that ladies nite is for women hooking up with women. It takes me awhile to catch on.
i am down.lol.ill tell you how it goes.
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#686125 12/29/1207:08 PM12/29/1207:08 PM
staten island is like a whole new state for me, if i want to see chicks hooking up with each other i can just head to manhattan or call some of my lesbian friends no need to head out there lol
Tommy Shots: They want me running the family, don't they know I have a young wife? Sal Vitale: (laughs) Tommy, jump in, the water's fine.
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#686129 12/29/1207:15 PM12/29/1207:15 PM
come to thnk of it,i dont think i have any lesbian friends.
im sorry to hear that
i would honestly say at least half the chicks i know under 30 have made out/hooked up with another chick (usually when drunk), its actually not that big of a deal to me, guess i am used to it i saw it in school a bunch of times,straight girls would do it with their girlfriends for fun or as a dare,not to brag or anything but ive hooked up with more than one lesbian at the same time before, not a big deal, it is 2012 lol
Tommy Shots: They want me running the family, don't they know I have a young wife? Sal Vitale: (laughs) Tommy, jump in, the water's fine.
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#686137 12/29/1207:33 PM12/29/1207:33 PM
Gotta admit that I watched the Chicago spin-off. Definitely a guilty pleasure for sure. If anything, it was good to see the neighborhoods, restaurants and places they filmed. Love to hear the accents that I grew up with!
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#686144 12/29/1207:50 PM12/29/1207:50 PM
I should add that it's only because of the mob connection that I watch the show. Otherwise, it would have no appeal to me whatsoever. And even then, I listen to it more than watch it. I'll have an episode going on my computer but have other windows up and will be doing other things while the show is going.
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