mob wives | 'Mob Wives' follows four Staten Island women and their lifestyles

'Mob Wives' follows four Staten Island women and their lifestyles

Move over "Jersey Shore," here comes something wilder! In the new reality show "Mob Wives," Karen, Drita, Carla and Renee dish out the drama in a season filled with fierce catfights, foul language, and coping with loved ones behind bars. "Mob Wives" on VH1's new reality series, featuring four women from Staten Island whose husbands or fathers are allegedly connected to the mob, at a dinner party during taping of the show. From left to right, Renee Graziano, Jennifer Gravano, Drita D'avanzo and Carla Facciolo.STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- If you're gonna be a mob wife, you have to play the part."A rat is a rat is a rat. A snitch is a snitch," says one of the four Staten Island cast members of VH1's new series "Mob Wives," which debuts Sunday at 8 p.m. In a 30-second promo, the voice-over intro is heard as the friends walk along Manhattan's waterfront near the Whitehall Ferry Terminal and step over a newspaper with a front-page headline "Mob takes a hit.""If you take on that lifestyle, you follow the rules. Everyone likes to judge. When you're in my shoes, then you judge."The show, featuring four women whose family members have been accused of being in the Mafia, portrays everyday life of someone leading the "mob life." It follows four friends at a crossroads, struggling with their identities and families as they start over while their husbands or fathers do time for alleged mob-related activities.The cast features: Karen Gravano, daughter of Mafia turncoat Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano; Drita D'avanzo, whose husband Lee is in prison for bank robbery; Renee Graziano, daughter of Anthony Graziano, an alleged high-ranking member of La Cosa Nostra, and Carla Facciolo, whose husband Joey Ferragamo was convicted of stock fraumob wives

| 'Mob Wives' follows four Staten Island women and their lifestyles