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A court has ordered Mob-linked “Real Housewives of New Jersey” cult favorite Daniel Provenzano to pay his ex-girlfriend $222,978 in damages.
“RHONJ” fans may remember Provenzano as a friend-cum-bodyguard to controversial cast member Danielle Staub, who was by her side for many of her most jaw-dropping moments on the show including the infamous Posche fashion show brawl.
Cops, meanwhile, may remember him as a nephew of Anthony “Tony Pro” Provenzano, a captain in the Genovese crime family, and that he served more than four years in prison on racketeering charges in 2003 after allegedly using beatings and kidnappings to extort more than a dozen “business associates.”
Back in November 2018 cops told the Post that Provenzano and longtime girlfriend Patricia O’Neil had got into a fight in her Midtown apartment over money she allegedly loaned him to finance his animated film “Wiseguys and Whackjobs.” The NYPD said that Provenzano threw her to the ground and slammed a door on her arm.
In 2019, O’Neil sued Provenzano for “defamation and related claims,” because, she told Page Six on Friday, he had “spun a false narrative” about the circumstances of the violent run-in, casting her, as she put it to us, as a “spurned woman.”
Meanwhile, according to court papers, Provenzano had threatened her life and assaulted her.
But Provenzano never responded to the suit, and in October 2020 judge Edgaro Ramos issued a default judgement ordering him to pay “$222,978.00 in compensatory and punitive damages” to O’Neil.
Provenzano appealed, but on May 18 a judge dismissed the appeal because Provenzano once again failed to engage with the appeal process.
In 2017 Provenzano sued “Sopranos” star Vincent Pastore for failing to show up for a three-day shoot in 2013, where Provenzano planned to have Pastore star in a TV pilot, “Manhattan, Kansas.”
Neither Provenzano nor his attorney responded to requests for comment.
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