I Married A Mobster: Karen Archer Shares A Bit About Linda Schiro

Linda Schiro Scarpa spending beach time with Karen Gravano of Mob Wives.

Usually I wouldn't link the site that belongs to an individual who has lied about me & our site.  However, one of her bloggers has shared sides of Linda Schiro a.k.a. Linda Scarpa that many may or may not be aware of.  Recently Linda Scarpa of I Married A Mobster made the mistake of accusing our site of passing on e-mails her or her niece allegedly sent to us.  We have never passed on any such e-mails, comments, etc.  What Karen Archer blogged about is her take on some of Linda's flip flopping ways.  Where she attained her information is her business.  We had nothing to do with it.  You can read Karen's blog by clicking here.

I'd like to add you can read my blog on Linda's Drita Rap here.

It must suck being someone's favorite and then being called fake.  I am sure Drita D'avanzo of Mob Wives gives about as many f*cks as I do.  We don't write blogs to hurt people.  We write blogs based on facts, our opinions and what we've seen on I Married A Mobster, Mob Wives and information we've obtained with a dash of our humor.  If one takes issue with how we blog, the smart move would be to not read our site. It's truly that simple folks.  I am of the opinion that if you continue to read this site & you do NOT like it, you're not very bright.  It's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.  By the way Ms. Schiro Scarpa has made bigoted remarks directed towards Love Majewski of I Married A Mobster,  Deadly Sins and now Mob Wives time & time again.  One could easily start to believe Linda is extremely jealous of Ray Merolle's ex-girlfriend.  Let's say it together 1-2-3 green with envy.  Before Linda pitches a Twitter fit, cries wolf & plays victim, I don't think Linda considers Love's feelings.

I'd like to share I've spoken with Linda Scarpa.  She can be very kind & thoughtful when she chooses to.  I've equally notice when she gets irritated or mad she can fly off the handle.  Today she started going after Chiara for something she nor our site had anything to do with.  She went on to claim we're lonely & unhappy individuals.  If that helps her feel better about where she is in life (CLICK HERE to read The Daily Beast about the state of their lives), GREAT FOR HER.  If one does not get the facts, opinion, inside information and/or humor we share, NOT OUR ISSUE OR CONCERN. Thanks for reading!

I Married A Mobster: Linda Scarpa Raps Drita D'avanzo?

Lil Linda with her father Greg "The Grim Reaper" Scarpa

Lord knows Linda Scarpa of I Married A Mobster will wear the horns off a billy goat.  Her and I have played cordial then gone full on Twitter tiffs.  I have to share, I like Linda Scarpa at times.  At other times she's so frustrating.  Frustrating as in level 10 choke a bitch.  I know violence is wrong.  I would not just randomly choke anyone.  I admit to it crossing my mind on occasion.  When it's all typed and done, Linda Scarpa is the daughter of Greg "The Grim Reaper" Scarpa Sr. and part of the cast of I Married A Mobster season 1.  It seems Linda is more than just a Daddy's Little Girl.  On her Facebook recently she posted a rhyme in regards to Drita D'avanzo of Mob Wives.

Here's my lil rhyme for Drita... See it goes like this Her name is Drita Davanzo....She thinks she's Gangsta but she's really just a wankster..She thinks She's a Rapper But She's Really Just A flapper...She claims to have Fame But She's Really Kinda Lame..Drita's got no name in Mob World and her stories getting Old...She thinks Shes in the Mob but Shes re

ally Just a Slob...She's Got No BRAVADO!! She RIDES Coat tails on GRAVANO!!..Yea she's on the show but She's really Got to Go..YOur supposed to be A Lady but your really very Shady....Cause you Act like a Guy till You got Punched In your Eye...See this is how I Feel cause You Know Im Fucking REAL...See Im no Wankster my Father really was a Gangster..I Don't run around town Acting like A Clown. Why don't you be a Role Model Stop acting like Trash...See I'll ALWAYS Have the Upperhand Cause i Have CLASS... DRITTTAAAA...Hit It.. "tired of the wannabees and why would you wannabe"..

Linda Scarpa in recent time striking a pose.

See Im tired of the Fakes So this is my Take.. Drita I Know how you Roll ...From the Day That you Crawled Out of your HOLE..It's Easy When your making the Cash and All you have to do is Act like Trash..You launched your new Line Just Me..What Happened You Forgot About Lee!!!.Not even Lee Was In The Life He Robbed Banks for His lovely Wife.....See I know This Cause I've been In the LIFE.. and I know for a Fact You Aint No MOBWIFE..You Used his name Just to get Ahead..That being Said Put your story to Bed.. Cause Without Lee You really are a Wannabee....See the Apple don't fall far from the Tree and I am GANGSTA with a Capital G............. DRItaaaaaa hit it...LOL

What am I going to do with not one but two rapping mob wives?  I suppose I'll keep watching Mob Wives & wait for season 2 of I Married A Mobster to begin.  Check out Linda in action on her Facebook page & Twitter if you like.  Ms. Scarpa is a colorful character who has a history of beefing with a mob wife or mob moll and then some.  I thank Linda Scarpa for giving me a wonderful chuckle.  I imagine Jennifer Graziano of JustJenn Productions and Kevin Kaufman of Kaufman Films have their hands full of drama dealing with the talent.

I Married A Mobster: Andrea Giovino Ambushed

So last night I was dying to watch Joy Behar as she interviewed the ladies of I Married A Mobster.  Previously Joy had interviewed Cheryl Caruso, Linda Scarpa & Diondrea Nicosia.  Each women answered questions and were respectful to one another.  Well last night was a whole different show.

Joy Behar was her usually funny opinionated self.  This time around it was two mother & daughter duos.  Linda Schiro with her daughter Linda Scarpa sitting behind her on the left side of our television screens.  On the right side we had Andrea Giovino with her gorgeous daughter Brittany Fogarty sitting behind her.  Joy starts asking the ladies questions.  Linda Schiro smiled as she discussed her golden years with Greg 'The Grim Reaper' Scarpa.  We hear of her days @ the Copa Cabana & the Peppermint Lounge.  Linda matter of factly discusses witnessing Greg murder someone over collectible stamps.  Joy asks her if witnessing a man murdered affected her.  She says, "No."  She presses her a little more and Linda painted in a corner says something similar to, "....it was hard. It didn't affect me."  I raise one eyebrow and shake my head.  I think, 'Come on lady, anything hard affects you.  Stick to the truth, it didn't affect you.' 

Joy turns to Andrea Giovino to ask her some questions.  Big Linda tenses up, crosses her arms and appears to be uncomfortable.  As Andrea answers Joy's questions articulately & polished. Big Linda rudely interrupts her with questions.  My opinion is she was trying to discredit Andrea.  I think, 'Am I watching The Joy Behar Show or The Ambush Andrea Show?'  Joy appears caught off guard.  Andrea seems a little surprised.  Andrea intelligently states the facts of her life.  She doesn't lower herself by getting dirty in the mud with Big Linda's antics.  I applaud Andrea Giovino.  I would've asked Big Linda, "Aren't you a known liar?  Did you not change your story regarding Lindley DeVecchio?  Why would you lie and say Greg wasn't a rat when he ratted out his own son Greg Sr.?"  However, Ms. Giovino didn't and I applaud her for taking the high road.

Why attempt to discredit your fellow I Married A Mobster cast mate?  Why take issue with Andrea's alleged drug involvement when you knowingly lived the good life with a murderer and documented rat?  It was just low rent on Big Linda's part.  She's never appeared to me to be a vicious individual.  So I have a strong feeling someone has an axe to grind with Andrea and used Big Linda.  My future suggestion for this individual is do not bring a dull knife to a Desert Eagle battle. 

A little later in the segment we see Big Linda take issue with Little Linda's take on her experience growing up Mob.  Joy caught it too and mentioned it.  I enjoy drama like the next person.  However, I enjoy it on my own terms.  When I want chaos and/or foolishness, I watch Mob Wives and Bad Girls Club.  When I want to be informed I watch I Married A Mobster and 60 Minutes.  I tuned into The Joy Behar Show to watch the Lindas, Andrea Giovina and her daughter Brittany Fogarty share information about their life experiences.  I did not tune in to see an ill equipped elderly long past her prime attack an quick witted and polished woman.  It was desperate and sad.

Don't forget to watch Discovery ID's I Married A Mobster tonight.  I've been waiting to hear about Mama Fama & her husband's shenanigans.  It airs tonight @ 10:30PM.

I Married A Mobster: Recap Of “The Grim Reaper”

Recap of Episode 3: The title of last night’s episode says it all, “The Grim Reaper.” The title is the name that was given to Greg Scarpa, a mafia capo who was known for his countless, violent murders. Linda Schiro was his mistress for decades and this was her story.

Linda Schiro grew up around mobsters. Her grandmother ran crap and numbers games from her house. It was part of her childhood and all she knew.

When Linda was 17, she was having an affair with Larry Pistone, a made member of the Gambino crime family. One night, while she was out, Greg Scarpa asked her to dance. He complimented her eyes saying, they were black, like olives. He asks for her number, but she tells him she will call him. She doesn’t. Instead, two days later she has a big argument with Larry and goes straight to Greg. Larry is outside blowing the horn and telling her to get in the car. Greg tells him she is going with him. Greg reaches for something under his seat. Linda gets scared and gets in the car with Larry and they drive off. Linda had just saved Larry’s life.

Greg was a huge money maker for the Colombo crime family and he was a notorious hit man. Both Greg and Larry wanted Linda so the two families had a sit down. Greg came out the winner. He treated her like a queen and she became his mob mistress. They celebrated her birthday at the Copacabana. She got a lot of gifts. In the mob, the girlfriends get everything and the wives, not so much. Linda describes him as caring and giving, but do him wrong and he will kill you.

One night Greg gets out of his car to go speak to a guy in another car, leaving Linda to wait across the street. Greg shoots the guy and this was the first mob hit that Linda witnessed. Then Greg tells her he has a secret, he is working for the FBI. After he was arrested in 1962 for armed robbery, he became an informant to avoid going to jail. She asks if he is a “rat.” He says no, he just does jobs for the FBI.

One day, in 1964, the FBI asks him to go to Mississippi where three civil rights workers had disappeared. Hoover and the FBI knew Scarpa would do anything and was afraid of nothing. They needed him to talk to the KKK and find out where he bodies were. An FBI agent gives him a gun. Greg handles it. He kidnaps one of the klansmen and tortures him for the information and he gets it. The FBI pays him money for a job well done.

After four years of being with Greg, Linda wants to get married and have children. Greg cannot leave his wife, it’s not what mobsters do. Linda marries a guy named Charlie, who worked with insurance, but she still went out with Greg every night and sometimes didn’t come home. Charlie never said anything. Then she got pregnant and had her daughter, Linda. Linda is Greg’s daughter. Greg has it all. He has two families, he is well respected in the mob and he works for the FBI so he can rest assured he will not go to jail.

Linda is Greg’s partner in crime. Mistresses know far more than the wives and Greg shared everything with Linda. When Linda gets pregnant with Greg’s son, Charlie leaves and Greg moves in. Linda was very happy.

Then, Greg becomes ill with a bleeding ulcer. He needs massive blood transfusions. At the time AIDS was a huge problem, so he got his friends to donate the blood for him. One of his friends was HIV positive, but his blood had never been tested. Greg gets AIDS. Orena and Scarpa were at war to get control of the family. One day while he was pulling out of his driveway with his daughter Linda and her baby in the car behind him, they are shot at, it’s a mob hit. Linda runs screaming back into the house thinking her father was hit. Greg soon follows, no one was hurt. But now, the war was personal. Linda says there were 5 holes in her car where the baby was sitting. Greg goes out every night looking for Orena’s crew. He went out himself, with his health declining, to get them all. He is arrested and the judge sentences him to house arrest because he is so ill.

One day Joey, their son, gets into trouble on the streets. They hide it from Greg. Someone had pulled a gun on Joey, Greg finds out. Greg goes out and starts shooting punks on the street. He drives back home. He is shot through his nose and his eye was out. He doesn’t even realize it. They take him to the hospital where he is arrested by US Marshals. Linda wants to take him home to die. They want to know if his trigger finger still works? As long as it does, they are taking him to jail. Greg died two days later, in prison at the age of 68.

Greg’s sonJoey rips off a drug dealer who was protected by a made guy. Linda is worried sick, but Joey tells her Vinnie’s dad has it under control. Linda knows what that means, she has been part of the mob lifestyle for decades. She tells him that mean they are going to kill you. Joey doesn’t believe it. But, the next day, Joey is killed. He didn’t have his father’s protection any more.

Linda says of Greg, “he was my life.”

In my opinion, there is so much to Linda’s story that 30 minutes could not do it justice. They just scratched the surface of her life with Greg Scarpa. She spent decades with the man and knew all his business. They did mange to get quite a bit of information into the episode. It was very well executed and the story was coherent. I felt the same way about last week’s episode with Andrea Giovino. Both of these women had much more to their stories, they filled up books, and what we got was the condensed “Reader’s Digest” version. Still they were fascinating and left me wanting to know and see more.

In both episodes, they show the lavish lifestyle side by side with violent murder as part of the woman’s daily routine. It’s impossible to even imagine greeting your significant other at the door, knowing that he may very well have committed murder that day or having to wash out his blood stained clothes. I don’t know how they dealt with it, accepted it, and went about their business. I wish someone would do a psychological study on the mindset of mob wives and mistresses.

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I Married A Mobster: Linda Schiro’s Grocery Boy

Fruits and vegetables aren’t the only things that Linda hand picked at the grocery store. Lawrence Mazza, was a supermarket delivery boy who caught Linda‘s eye in 1978. Mazza was in college and worked in the neighborhood store. Linda told Greg about her attraction to Mazza and Greg gave her permission to pursue the boy, who later became a member of Greg Scarpa’s crew.

Mazza, who delivered the goods to Linda, who was 15 years older than he, began an intimate relationship that would last for years, until 1986, when he got involved with another woman.. Greg was fine with the relationship, as long as it was kept quiet between the three of them. Mazza remained a member of Scarpa’s crew until he was arrested and turned informant on him to the FBI.

Mazza, Colombo crime family associate, was called as a witness to testify against Scarpa in DeVecchio’s trial, the FBI agent working with Greg Scarpa. Mazza recounted his activities with the mob and what he knew of Scarpa‘s murders. When asked about he got involved in the mob, the mobster was reduced to tears. He testified that he was a student in John Jay College of Criminal Justice when he met Schiro. He had planned to be like his father, a FDNY lieutenant. He was so emotional the judge had to call a recess so he could compose himself enough to go on. Mazza told of how he met Schiro, delivering groceries to her home, and became sexually involved with her and eventually turned into a murderer for the mob.

Mazza had many derogatory things to say about his former “capo” Scarpa, including, “He was a horrible human being” and “[he was] a vicious, violent animal” who could have easily named dozens of murders that he had a hand in. Mazza worked very closely with him. Scarpa started Mazza out with small jobs and gradually gave him more and more responsibility. Mazzo admits to being the hitman for four murders. When he was arrested by the FBI, he agreed to turn informant.

Linda Schiro's episode airs tonight, Wednesday, July 27th, on ID at 10:30 PM. 



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I Married A Mobster: Joey Scarpa, Linda Schiro’s Son

Joey Scarpa was the beloved son of Linda Schiro and Greg Scarpa Sr. and sister of Linda Scarpa.  He was murdered a few months after his father died of AIDS in prison. Joey was reportedly killed by a friend, Vincent Rizzuto, over a drug deal.  His death was tragic and devastating to both his mother and sister.  Her story is being featured tomorrow night on Investigation Discovery at 10:30 PM ET.

Joey, like his older brother Greg Jr.,  looked up to and respected his father.  But, Joey was also a rebellious teenager and often didn’t agreed with the things his father asked of him. Joey’s best friend was Patrick Porco. The two boys grew up together, almost like brothers. Patrick spent a lot of time at the Scarpa home.   Both Joey and Patrick starting selling drugs on the street, mainly marijuana and cocaine. Actually it was quite a bit of cocaine. Linda and Greg both worried about Joey’s safety, he was only 17 at the time. Joey and Patrick got into a dispute with a dealer from another crime family, Domenick Masseria, and ended the argument with the alleged killing of Masseria. Greg was very worried for his son’s safety and sent him away, while he tried to negotiate with the other family to save Joey and Patrick’s lives.

According to a 2005 affidavit, sworn to by Sandra Harmon, author of Mafia Son, Linda told her that Greg got a call from FBI agent DeVecchio, telling him that Patrick was going to snitch on Joey about Masseria's murder. Greg Sr's focus was on killing Patrick to protect his son.  He needed Joey to help him with his plan.   Joey never believed his friend would rat on him and protested. However, in the end, at his father's insistence, he went along with his father’s orders. But, the guy who was ordered to whack Patrick had car trouble that day and Greg told Joey he had to go do the job himself. Joey went with his friend John, to take care of Patrick, but when he came home he was inconsolable and sick with grief. Greg wanted Joey to attend Patrick’s funeral, but Joey was too upset to go.

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For the entire affivadit of Susan Harmon: http://www.mafiason.com/AFFADAVIT.pdf

I Married A Mobster: Greg Scarpa Jr., Linda’s “Stepson”

Linda Schiro will be featured on Investigation Discovery's "I Married A Mobster" Wednesday night at 10:30 PM.  We have several blogs about the events and people in her life already up.  You can find them all by using the search feature at the bottom right hand side of the blog.

  

Linda Schiro’s “stepson” Greg Jr., was also involved in mafia business. In order to write her book about the Scarpa family, Mafia Son, Sandra Harmon corresponded with Greg Scarpa, Jr. while he was in prison. In an interview with David Amoruso of Gangsters, Inc, she says she initially got involved in the story when she began having meetings with Linda Schiro, who was very open about the details of her life. It was during these conversations that Linda suggested to Sandra that she contact Greg Jr., which she did and he became a valuable source of her research.

Greg Jr. looked up to and respected his father and became involved in the mafia by working for his father. He was a capo in the Colombo crime family. When his father was ill with AIDS and facing arrest, he convinced his son to confess to his crimes, promising that he and DeVecchio, an FBI agent working with Greg Scarpa Sr., would make sure he did not get sentenced to more than a couple of years at a prison close to home. Greg took his father at his word. However, after his trial, he was sentenced to 20 years and sent to a Federal prison a long distance from his family in Brooklyn. A deal he makes with the Feds goes sour as Greg delivers on his end, but the Feds reneg on their promise to shorten his sentence. Instead he is sent to a maximum security prison where he remains in his cell 23 hours a day. Sandra Harmon offers to try to help Greg Jr. by looking into pro bono attorneys and he begins to send her endless pages about his life. One of the most shocking revelations included in their conversations was information that Greg Jr. provided the FBI, concerning the 9/11 attacks, that he got from an inmate and were ignored.

Ms. Harman had gotten so involved and had so much information she was called by both the prosecution and defense for DeVecchio’s trial.

For the entire interview and many more details go to: Gangsters Inc

To read a chapter of Ms. Harmon’s book and letters from Greg Jr: Mafia Son

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