Albert “Tiny” Manzo was Caroline Manzo’s father-in-law. Albert “Tiny” Manzo had two sons, Albert Manzo Jr and Tommy Manzo. Brownstone Restaurant was established by Manzo Sr and still runs today.
Albert “Tiny” Manzo was killed in August 1983. Manzo was linked to the Gambino family.
Manzo and another Gambino family worker, Peter A Campisi, were rumored to have stolen money from a mob casino on Staten Island. It was unclear how Campisi and Manzo skimmed the money but the mob boss knew about it and allegedly was involved in their deaths.
Tiny Manzo was discovered dead inside his parked car trunk. Tiny Manzo was fatally shot 4 times. Manzo’s body was nude and his arms and legs were tied up. Manzo was 350 pounds and a formidable man. It was not easy to overcome a big man.
Manzo’s car was parked outside a supermarket in New Jersey. The murder was unsolved. Campisi was also killed and found in a similar way.
After the Manzo sisters achieved fame on the reality TV show, they tried to distance themselves from the past. There were some denials about being linked to the unsavory mob associations. There were suggestions that the stories were untrue.
Oct 17 2011 – Dina Manzo helped to decorate a couple’s basement for their baby shower party. This was featured in her show, Dina’s Party. Dina and Caroline’s thicker than blood bond has been allegedly destroyed by a fight between Caroline and Teresa Giudice. The sisters did not drag names out in the mud, but their coolness has raised questions about their relationship. Caroline is already being talked about as being left out of the next new season of TRHNJ. Jacqueline Laurita is also allegedly being dismissed. Caroline is trying to take the bite out of the about turn of events. She said she was never really friends wiuth Giudice. Caroline revealed she stopped speaking to Dina, because of theiur disagreements over Giudice. Dina Manzo had long left the Housewives show, after she dsiagreed with Danielle Staub.
Oct 23 2011 – Caroline Manzo said she stopped talking to her sister Dina Manzo, sometime after the latter left the RHNJ show. Now, there are rumors that Caroline may be cut from the show in the next new season. Jacqueline Laurita is another cats member allegedly being axed from the Housewives cast. Caroline blamed Teresa Giudice for destroying her family. Of course, Teresa has denied this.
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Caroline, Don’t let these people get to you. I believe the same way you do. Family is the most important things in our lives. Nobody beter mess with my family either. When life is gives you lemons make lemonade. It’s better to use honey than vinegar. If you were such a “bad” person people wouldn’t keep coming to you for advice. Your family are lovely. Good Job Caroline.
Hmm…the only reason i watch this crappy show is to see how stupid and low class these people act.
The show has high ratings b/c it is a grown up version of Jersey Shore. Very honestly, that’s why I watch it. Because I can never think or even imagine the stuff they do.
It is super clear that from day 1 they had formed their own group against Danielle. What I don’t understand is why BRAVO is giving these characters so much attention. I mean, do you believe this Dina chic has her own show? There are so many more talented decorators, compared to this chic?
It is similar to how ppl in Shakespearn time would watch plays that have crude fighting etc…
It is is clear that Manzos are a lump of artifical jelly. Laurita’s seem to be the only decent ppl that have some class left.
Caroline -
I find that you are very short on “forgiveness”. Whatever Danielle might have done in the past, why do you harp on that, when your own family obviously was involved in mob activity.
Grow up and become a tolerant human being.
I used to live in Wayne, NJ and used to work in the Shell Station on Hamburg Tpke & Ratzer Rd. I was 17 at the time, Tiny Manzo & these 2 gigantic guys used to stop for gas in his big green Lincoln Town Car. I used to wash the windows and offer to check the oil and I am not going to lie I was intimidated for sure. Tiny always gave me a $10.00 tip when I was done which I thought was pretty decent of him. There was also a Wayne cop that used to come in for repairs and this guy used to carry on and be a real pain in the axx. This cop had a landscaping business and one day while Tiny’s driver was leaving the parking lot this kid who worked for the cop blocked the road so they couldn’t pull out. The kid started flipping them off and yelling obsenities at them. At this point this big guy gets out of Tiny’s car and started swinging a baseball bat into the side of the truck denting it up pretty bad. Later on in the day the cop comes in wanting to know if I saw anything to which I replied no I saw nothing. The next time Tiny came in for gas he got out of the car which he never did before. He asked me did you see the kid mouthing off at us, I said no what are you talking about. He patted me on the shoulder and flipped me a $50.00 bill. My sister used to date Tiny’s nephew Vic and he was always decent to me too. I have read and heard a lot about Tiny over the years. I believe he was involved with the mob, but he was always decent to me whereas the Wayne cop treated me like crap and if he didn’t get his way would start flipping out. I treat people the way they treat me.
I live in New Orleans with an unusual veiw of a mob family in my past (childhood friend.) These ladies are simply lying. They fit the stereotypes so well it’s astounding. They are not “connected” anymore–the family got the MESSAGE, but everything they have was built on crime. Teresa’s spewing of cash is a rather conspicous, she should be careful. Danielle-dried up coke whore. The looks on her kids faces sometimes breaks my heart. I hope they can overcome her being their mother.
I think it’s disgusting that the Manzo’s flaunt their wealth gained originaly through illegal Mob activity, as if it was all earned honestly. No shame what so ever!!! I find it amusing that Caroline & scary looking Dina tag team on Danielle claiming to be so concerned with her character, when they are just as moraly questionable. Pathetic!!! It’s so funny the Manzo’s claim to be tough and upstanding people, the minute their family history is brought to the forefront, they put their tails between their legs and cry about how unfair it is to talk about becuase it causes pain for thier family. I agree with everyone else….they are SCUM who give the good people of New Jersey a bad name.
They are all mobbed up,way to funny……….scum,all of them,take it off the air,look into them…..sooooo arrogant…..
that show is the pits….1st of all they all are not jersey housewives-some have no husbands… they also are not any way a symbol of what JERSEY is all about…so what if they were born into the mob–every one of those women-i use the term loosly.should be ashamed of what they have done to hurt ther Manzo name as well as what positions they have put thier children in..they apparently do not need $$–they say The Brownstone is always busy..
WHY THEN?? they are camera hounds WHO ABSOLUTLY NO TALENT FOR ANYTHING.. at least they married people
who are successful BUSINESS OWNERS AND INVESTORS..
WHAT HAVE THEY ACCOMPLISHED IN THIER LIVES..GOSSIP
STUPID JUGEMENT CALLS ON A GREAT FAMIY NAME…
I know the Manzo’s all my life…I had a key position at Tommy’s wedding…I can care less for those who they are married to and what they have done to defame a great name….but The Manzo Family are great people….they help people who need help
and Tommy especially IS AN AMAZING BUSINESS MAN
AND AN AMZING HUMAN BEING AND A KIND HUMANITARIAN. Don’t let this creapy show and a bunch of no talented women who only know nothing but gossip–RUIN AN IMAGE OF A WONDERFULE FAMILY. Whatever Tiny was or was not..has nothing to do of what The Manzo Family represents today. I am proud to call Tommy Albert ..i will leavve the other 2 family names out of this..but bros 3 and sister 1
you all HAVE MY LOVE AND KNOW YOUR NAME DESERVES MORE THAN THESE NON MANZOS ARE DOING FOR IT..TY
Tiny was who he was. I always found him to be a friend to me and my family. Although he was unable to fulfill a promise to me, his word still remains his bond to me. He left his family a great legacy. His family has every right to be proud of him. They should left in peace. REST IN PEACE TINY MANZO. A friend forever!!!!!!
so what If caroline’s father wasin the mob ? It wasent her or her husband who was involved. You cant help the family your are born to.
But Danielle is some nasty pieace of work, she kidnaped a child years ago, she tried to hurt dina daughter.she was rotten and is still rotten now.
Caroline had every right to defend her family.
Obviously Tiny’s “skimmed money” is now sitting pretty in Franklin Lakes, NJ. You can’t buy class, New Jersey. Caroline Manzo is the scummiest of them all….OK…it’s pretty much a tie, for sure.
Why doesn’t the government investigate Caroline and her family!! Obviously, it’s blood money that supports their lavish lifestyles. There’s no way that the family’s business would bring in the type of money that’s needed to own and maintain these mansions, clothing, etc. The corruption goes all the way up to the government, that’s why they’re not investigated!! Everyone knows that the Mafia is not just something of the past but that it is still currently active in this country today. And they have the nerve to say that they’re people of “integrity” Bullshit!!!!
who cares. I love watching the drama..and i would love to have moffia money and live in those big houses.
I mostly agree with all posters at to Caroline’s double standard. I pegged her for a trouble maker from the very beginning. Forcing Jacqueline to chose between family and Danielle – always pushing her opinions on everyone else and it’s her way or the highway! She can dish it out but can’t take it. She promised her family she wouldn’t raise her voice at Danielle and would be civilized, etc. but funny she had to apologize on her blog for her behavior and name calling, as being childish and cruel. Really? And Albert, sitting behind his desk at the Brownstone during the banquet where Danielle raised a ruckus…didn’t he just look like a mob boss, sitting there, rubbing his hands together, looking out the corner of his eye? And Jacqueline even sounds mobish sometimes, like when she made “rules” for Ashley to live by if she came back home and said, “Are these rules you can live by?” I swear, I thought – MOB!! Not that this generation is in the mob, but they definitely still act the part. Caroline, “we’re think as theives”, “when you hurt my family, you hurt me” blah blah blah. She wants to come off like a mob wife so why does she deny, deny, deny and hold Danielle to a different standard than her own family? Anyway, Caroline, chill out. We’ve all got your number that you’re a liar and a hypocrit. Just like a common criminal, you think you’re so much smarter than everyone else…..but you’re not.
I don’t really like any of the nj hws but I can respect Danielle for being real and standing up to that phony red haired clown Caroline. It’s funny to me!
Well Caroline and the others are going to say they aren’t mob connected the females that are married or sleeping with one have to be quite they have to be seen and not heard .Just like Tresea shes in labor and her husband(Joe) is texting someone when he first got up I think he was texting his girlfriend . The resturant her and Caroline and Jac went to was owned by Joe cause he was standing at the bar when they walked in.And Tresea(You stupid DRAG QUEEN ) how can you say your house is not in foreclourse don’t you know that is made public so anyone can look at it?I seen the court papers thats why she got so mad at D FOR SAYING IT .So all of you wanna be high class bimbos take a long hard look at yourself and if he was in the mob(Tiny)who cares just stop saying he wasn’t
Funny ,Right from the beginning of the shows, I felt strongly that Calines family were mob connectd, After watching the lst get together , I when Caroline denied, the Mob , stories, I was convinced, After reading all the above , i too agree with all that was said, The show should be called “Housewives of New Jersey! Get a real Life”
It’s not okay in Caroline’s eyes for Danielle to have been a stripper 20 years ago.
But it’s okay for her son to open a strip club.
Caroline Manzo is a joke. God I can’t stand how she acts so tough. “We are thick as thieves” “Head to head, and toe to toe…” bullshit.
Christ, she’s a walking talking cliché.
Caroline Manzo also tries to justify her son’s association with a notorious mob-connected strip joint (excuse me, “strip parlor”), and his hiring a bunch of sleazy, half-naked young girls to flag down (and then “soap down”) “customers” at a local car wash but then expresses disgust at Danielle’s stripper past. Meanwhile, the other “good girls” look past Danielle’s sleazy, greasy ex-boyfriend’s role in sex tapes, texts (whatever), and their husbands’ secret gun and cash money stash. Danielle is so obviously a hypocrite, but Caroline and the others are just as bad with their sanctimonious “holier than thou” pretensions.
He was killed because he could not leave women and young girls alone. He tried to “phisical” with me in my highschool years on more than 1 occasion. The fact that he is dead and found in the trunk of his car, hog tied, naked, and possibly with his “member” in his mouth is justice! I also heard that the “mob” kills this way when a member “disrespects” there wives, children and girlfriends. I am 1 who would not allow him near me without others around because of this. But how many others did not!!!
Caroline, you ruin the show for me, with all your “I’m better than you” attitudes. The old stinky Brownstone (in which I have attended a ceremony years ago) was purchased in the 1970′s with MOB MONEY HONEY! And by the way, you organized the marriage of your sister Dina to your brother in law to get her on the show and get her PAID! We all know they are not really together and he is not in Dina’s daughters life. Keep shaving the hair off your face and encourage your children to further their educations, as they all sound immature when they speak. Hope your husband is doing better, i never wish anyone illness.
CAROLINE: I agree w/the rest of the ppl here. I’m tired of ur double standard. U want 2 crucify Danielle for her “alleged” past written in a book by an ex boyfriend, not even giving her a chance to explain herself. What a bunch of hypocrites u & ur sister r! Ur father-in-law not only was involved in organized crime, but was a majr CRIMINAL & that’s why he got killed! In 1 of the reunions Dina didn’t want u to talk about it. U were both downplaying it & at same time mkg f-i-l sound lk a great faml man. BS! Its called PROJECTION! Ev thg u r callg Danielle is what u really see & feel x urself! That’s what u really know u R! & u use aggression toward her. ALSO, why don’t u just come out of the closet already! Instead of pretending to be the matriarch & telling ev.1 what to do. U R DISGUSTING! U & Luann (from RHNY) r the WORST, most conniving, trouble-makers, twisted women, EVER. U shouldn’t be allowed to be on TV!
Oh the hypocrisy! From JFK to Hoover & the FBI the crimes of the Italian mafia and their various associates (Jewish & Russian mobsters, Japanese yakuza) have always been allowed to operate by US authorities. Rudy Giuliani prosecuted the mobsters that didn’t continue the payola to the authorities but mob influence and control continues unabated in NYC construction contracts for traffic lights (Petrocelli) and garbage-carting (Genovese)and wholesale food markets, restaurants, schools construction, Atlantic City gambling, etc ad nauseam while tens of thousands of petty drug offenders are serving multi-decade sentences in NYS prisons, most of whom being African- and Latin-Americans. Great country: built on crime; theft of land from the Indians and all the free labor that could be performed by innocent African slaves imprisoned, sold and brought to the Western Hemisphere by 16th-18th century organized criminals – the slave traders whose fortunes founded Brown University, Fleet Bank of Boston and many many other venerable US institutions and families still extant today. Great country, isn’t it? The Manzo’s are just a tip of the iceberg and the REal HW’s of NJ are just the latest glamorization of white people committing crimes and getting AWAY with it!
Great fuckin’ country, isn’t it?????
Caroline – regardless of your husband’s family ties to ‘Organized Crime’ in the past and me-thinks, we all know that is FACT. Probably, currently, the Brownstone is a legit family business. But when living in a glass house (with history) – STOP throwing rocks at others domicile. Unforgiveness of others is such a PATHETIC trait. Life is too short to NOT trust others @ first blush of meeting. Or is that the norm?…………………….
Theresa, can ya show us how to grow that money tree?
I knew Albert Tiny Manzo. I played at the casino on Staten Island that he was associated with.It was a known fact that he was rubbed out by the mob for skimming money from the casino. Caroline can deny it all she wants but its a known fact. Its funny how she refuses to believe Danielle about her past but she expects people to believe her when she says that her father in law wasnt associated with the mob.Well Caroline, I know first hand that he was, now you cant say that you know first hand about Danielle , can you ????
Interesting…..Everyone is so very worried and concerned about Danielle’s past yet Caroline and Dina are connected to the Mob. You’ve got to love the hypocrites! It’s Danielle who should be “checking” you out. Please! We didn’t need a “book”. It’s all over the internet and part of crime history.
I think that those Manzo girls should quit being such hypocrits. their fatherinlaw was rubbed out by the mom. Maybe Tiny had a big mouth and the mob had enough of it, but Dina an Caroline know very well that he had a big mouth and he was a snitch. Too bad you all accepted these parts on tv for you ten minutes of fame at the cost of elderly parents who have to relive this and children that have to find out this way. don’t we have enough $$$ that we don’t kneed the 50$ bravo may be paying you????You peopel are pathetic money hungry…..you know whats…….
Caroline, you are just too fake to evern try and be real. You place yourself as the matriarich of the family,but in factyou are the trouble maker with the family.. I can see it with your sister /sister in law and the others. You are too old to act like trailer trash. your husband has a nice business and for you to give it a bad name cause of you is wrong. Oh when is it going to come out that your sister and brotherinlaw are NOT togerther?
I find it interesting that Caroline Manzo on The Real Housewives of NJ dug up Danielle’s lurid history but her own family’s lurid history is not only denied but she cries and refuses to talk about it.
Hey, Caroline, the pit bull of the group………you’re always bragging about how tough you are. Apparently, you can’t deal with the facts about your own family’s criminal history.
Your tears were amusing given how you enjoyed trying to bring Danielle down.
You are the stereotyped mob wife. Your husband’s family’s mob ties are facts and if you want to out others on the show, then you should be a big enough person to deal with it honestly or get the hell off the show.