I say alledged, because I am going to let you decide yourself if you think VH1 Reality TV star Renee Graziano pulled a low life gangster move, and ripped off the Mob Candy name, after the Mob Candy Magazine gave her the honors of being on the cover.
Not too long after the mob wives production company knew we were looking to put Renee Graziano on the cover of our magazine, they reached out to discuss details. Me and Frankie D met with Jenn Graziano. Our goal was to talk our deal out, so we could push forward. Only, we wanted Karen Gravano on the cover, if anything. He really was not excited about the mob wives idea, I was pushing it hardcore.
There were verbal promises they would promote the covers on TV interviews, and social media. We also discussed future project collaborations with the MafiaLife Facebook game app, and possibly producing a podcast for them, since we have been mastering the arts with our own Mafia Talk Radio podcast, and my experience on Sirius XM when i hosted my own hour special. We even mentioned some of our Mob Candy jewelry! She loved it all. It was all a perfect fit.
VH1 had different plans apparently. They were contacting us pushing the desire to film us doing a photoshoot with Karen Gravano, and interviews where I was given the ok to ask any tough questions to Karen. Great minds think alike. Everybody knows Sammy The Bull, right?
To keep our word, we created separate stories, and separate dual covers for each of them. Although costs were higher, Mob Candy integrity demanded we do the right thing. Jenn was specific about making sure we kept to a promise. We promised Renee her own cover. Otherwise, we probably would have just done an inside story on Renee once the networks wanted to film Karen. So, they both got their own covers, and interior stories, and DiMatteo spend money printing the dual covers, along with 2 other covers as well. We just went with our collectors cover for issue 7.
In the end, she ended up doing only one book signing, signing some books, and tee shirts for us, and never ever mentioned being on the cover of the magazine to anyone during her many interviews on TV. She did tweet about it a few times when I did some giveaways to our audience, and fans. Nothing even close to what was promised. Needless to say, the other covers sold 5 times faster then hers. We did our job to sell out of most of the copies we printed, as we always do. But, that’s not my point here. Every mob enthusiast loves Mob Candy Magazine.
Now, she goes on TV, and is promoting all over the Internet on blogs, and on her website about a Mob Candy shoe line? And, Mob Candy Jewelry? That’s not even the half. Not only is she just using the brand name pretending she never heard of it before, she has also done interviews claiming the root of her Mob Candy name idea came into her head randomly after thinking about how she loves colors, and candy has different colors. And of course, she couldn’t forget to add the mob to it, right? That’s how she got the idea! (Click here to read the article where she claims how she got the idea)
Did she forget she was on the cover of a magazine titled Mob Candy way before she told her story about how she had some colorful idea for a new brand? Was she not privy to the ideas that we discussed with her production company in that business meeting? You tell me, are we crazy to be pissed? And, I am not talking about legalities here. I am not asking if what she did was legal or not. I am simply talking 100 percent on cold hard morality principle. What she did was wrong!
We asked a poll on our Facebook fan page, to see what the fans thought on this. We asked if they would feel disrespected if it was done to them. I’d love for you to answer that poll.
Click here to answer the poll: “Would you feel disrespected?”. or comment below, if you have the balls.
[There was content edited from this article, and a new blog was written to explain. You could find the details here]
I was wondering about this the first time I heard about her line. I thought of the magazine first.
Guilty 100%.
You promoted the Renee issue so well, that I bought TWO copies. Some of the nicest business people I have interacted with. Can’t believe she’d do this!
Guilty 1000% as Drita would say…
Agree with Frankie. First time I ever heard of Mob Candy was through Chris and Mafia Life, chat rooms and advertising years ago, and i’m all the way over on the other side of the world and that’s before Mob Wives hit our tv or was even in the making. I don’t like to see that Chris and his Crew has worked so hard for so many years to get their business up to where it is to have it stolen overnight.
Yes i’m yelling. What a joke.
Totally guilty. I hope this is made right soon..
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fucking italians, no better than the blacks.
Rappers produce songs promoting drugs and murder.
Dumb fucking italians do the same thing promoting organized crime.
Way to the further the stereotype, you greasy filthy pigs.
Go fuck yourself cunt! …You’ll get more pussy that way!!
This is abot a business deal, popoff. Doesn’t matter WHAT damnrace you are. However, you must enjoy the Mob news, or you wouldn’t be here, now would you? Idiot.
Is this for real?! It has NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE!! Its about how we as a whole have placed morals and intrgrity down the wastelands for MONEY..AND THE LAST TIME I LOOKED MONEY IS GREEN!! I think the core issue is exactly what I see missing in todays world, that I as a single mother of three, is proudly installing in my kids..who my ignorant friend are both.italian and black! I see a justice for aknowleding a lack of courtisy and unspoken respect in this
tsituation..
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ITS REAL EASY TO POINT AND PLAY A RACE CARD, AS IF AMERICAN WHITES DO NO WRONG IN THE WORLD. tHIS CLOWNS ATTACK SHOWS HOW CUNT HE REALLY IS. iN SOME WAY THINKS ONLY ONE RACE HAS A NEGATIVE ELEMENT. WHAT A DAMN SISSY. i WISH HIM ALL THE LUCK IN LIFE AS IF HE EVER STEPS TO ANYONE i KNOW TALKING THAT SHIT HE WILL BE BURRIED ALIVE AND HAVE A TREE SHOVED IN HIS ASS AND GROING OUT HIS MOUTH WHEN THEY FIND HIM.
Your totally wrong for the conment u were quick to pulk the race card and quite frankly I c nothing wrong maybe u could both benefit from this mob wives is a big hit and i myself wouldnt have heard about it if not for monwives!!! I would b happy if someone loved a name I created and wanted to use it lets all start helping each other!!! Money money money!!!!!
Unreal Chris. It’s flat out theft. Don’t let her get away with it.
You lay down with Peruvian dogs, you get Spanish fleas. You deal with lowlifes, they take advantage of you.
RENEE NEEDS 2 GET SLAPPED THE F@#KED UP…MOB CANDY HAS BEEN HERE BEFORE HER AND WILL BE HERE AFTER HER..
Personally I think you are all FuKKed in the head. You CANNOT blame a Whole race for what 1 person says or does, and nothing justifies the fact that everyone is lashing out at each other because 1 totally different person did something very immoral and wrong. Karma is a bitch. It’ll come around when she least expects it, just like it always does. You cant control peoples karma…. but how you react to those people can control your own………think about it……assholes.
Wow! Cannot believe she did this. Now thats disrespectful!!
No i dont believe she is guilty millions of americans forget all the time and exspecially during hard times… People act as if they have never forgotten anything or think they have lived in her shoes please give her a break.. Renee u do what u got to do for your sanity so what honest mistake.
wow dude she’s fucked up.. I was just watching that ep. on t.v. just now. And liked her shoes so I came back here to look them up. and find all this stuff, so I looked up the mag. and its true she a 100% stole the name. and after she stole the name, she went on further, and made herself look stupid. how you ganna say you came up wit sum on the spot. when you have physical evidence that shows other wise. come on now, aren’t you suppose to be In and out of the court system shouldn’t you no that. . (number 1 rule never leave behind evidence of foul play, well I hate for you girl but you left behind a photo of all things interviews statements the whole nine.)…. and really if he wanted to push the issue he could and would win. and all and all you efforts would have just gave him more media. and discredit yourself all together (making it to were no one wants to work wit you(history repeats its self. you fill me)
Sounds like its time for a sit down …I think Mob Candy should just contact her and confro lovet her…love M.C
..and M.W hope it all works out..
I am a mob daughter as well . Here in Cleveland that is and if I did anything so filthy in the way she did, My father would disown his own daughter . We call that straight disrespect ! And we believe that every action comes with a price .
For real Renee? All she ever talks about is respect and loyalty! So WHAT THE FUCK! I would be so pissed off. Who the hell does she think she is anyway. Did this all take place when she was still a pill head? Was she zanaxed out? Or perked up?
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The women on the show are disgusting. They are the biggest hypocrites on the face of the earth. They talk about “loyalty” and “respect” …what a joke. They wouldn’t know either if it hit them in the face. What Renee did to you is beyond disgusting and you should think of taking this up in court. Not Cool what she did. In fact, the more I watch those low life’s, the more I wonder how ppl even watch garbage like them. Between the fact that most of them looking like ugly masculine transvestites and the garbage that comes out of their mouths, its no wonder all they can attract are criminals in prison and low life’s. Who the hell would date garbage like them? Nobody with class thats for sure.. Please….Television needs to rethink the crap they put on tv.
You should be glad she’s using mob candy I never heard of you but Renee has a big following and will probably benefit you more the the reverse how can this hurt you?
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guess you shoulda trade marked the name DUMASS