I Married A Mobster: Andrea Giovino’s Story

Andrea Giovino’s story, “Working Mom,” is due to air on July 20^th at Investigation Discovery. She is one of the wives in their new show, “I Married A Mobster.” According to Andrea, she was an active part of the mob, participating in illegal activities. She was given a choice of either going to prison or becoming an informant, she chose the later. Her crimes consisted of loan sharking and money laundering. However, she was well known enough for John Gotti to comment, “She's got more balls than some of the guys that are around me."

The Feds had enough evidence on Andrea to build a strong case, one that might get her a 10 year prison sentence. She says a lot of what she learned, she learned as a child from her mother, who also did some work on the side for the mob. Her mother even encouraged her to marry a mobster. In their world, mobsters got all the respect and had all the power. So Andrea married a drug runner and had four children. But her life was far from peaches and cream. There was always talk of violence and stories about people she knew getting killed.

She talks about her friendship with John Gotti and from what she knew of him, he was a “gentleman.” She says in 1992 the Feds had her phone tapped and got evidence on her for participating in drug distribution, marijuana and cocaine in Brooklyn and Staten Island, along with her husband and brother. Though she feels she could have dealt with being in prison, she turned informant because she had her children to raise. This required that the government move her and her children to an undisclosed location because she had started receiving threats against her life and she refused to enter the witness protection program.

Her objective in telling her story is to inform the public of all the pain, suffering and heartache this lifestyle brings to a family. Sure she misses the material things that the lifestyle was able to provide, but she has come clean about her past and now her priorities are very different. She currently lives in Bucks County, Pa and has written a book called, “Divorced From The Mob.” 

To read many more details of Andrea’s story, click on the following link, it’s a very good read. The Two Mobs by David Kohn @ cbs news . 

Check out Andrea's website; where she's written an honest, heartfelt letter about her life.


Picture Credit: ID, Andrea Giovino website
Video Credit: Better, The Secret Lives of Women

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Mob Wives: Victoria Gotti, Sr. - A Mob Wife With Class, Part 2

Victoria Gotti is the traditional mob wife. She takes care of the house, raises the kids, cooks the meals and doesn’t ask questions. She doesn’t want to know her husband’s business or where the money comes from. She strikes me as being an older version of Carmela Soprano. She continues part two of her interview with Pablo Guzman by discussing her reaction to learning the news that her son, John Gotti Jr., had a contract out on him

She was confused. It was her understanding that mobsters don’t hurt each other’s sons, so she could not grasp why her son would be in this kind of danger. It just made absolutely no sense to her. She could not imagine that a person, who had some kind of vendetta against her husband, would be taking it out on her son…unless her son was in the mob! The pieces started to fall in place. After questioning her husband and son, and getting so many denials, the truth finally came out. She was extremely upset and she says she “tortured” her son to get out of the mob. They had many arguments over it. She didn’t want to have to bury her son one day. She lived that “life” with her husband and she didn’t want it for her son. John Gotti, Jr. didn’t listen to his mother, but one day realized she was right, he didn’t want that lifestyle any more.

She explains that when a person is in prison, they are helpless. There are things going on at home that they can’t be there for. She, herself, had to deal with the children’s illnesses, some of them life threatening, while her husband was in prison. One of her children had spinal meningitis and her daughter Victoria had a heart condition. She was flying all over with Victoria to see doctors, alone. And she says, when the husband isn’t there, it becomes a very hard burden on mother. Her husband, John, who is a very good father, would panic at the thought of anything being wrong with the children. And that is what finally made her son agree to give up the mob life. He wants to be there for his kids and walk his daughters down the aisle.

John Gotti, Jr. was released from prison the day before this interview. People were out on the street cheering his release like it was a victory. She says they didn’t “win” anything, “we just survived brokenly.” She said she had a year of hell. All of the family has been affected by this lifestyle. She always feels apprehensive.

At the end of her interview they discuss her art. Victoria Gotti has quite a big collection of work that she has created. Art is like therapy for her and there are canvases all over her house. She laughs. She loves it. It helps her to get out her aggression and frustration and she finds it calming. She shares that every painting she has made has meaning behind it. There is something or someone behind it.

I am going to study some of Victoria’s art work and blog about it soon. Based on what she says, it is sure to reveal more about this very interesting woman.

Video credit: CBS Broadcasting Co.