Karen Gravano is going to star on Families of the Mafia! Know about her family, boyfriend, mob background

Updated On March 18, 2024 | Published By: Brandy Stratton | In Child , Relationship

The new TV show Families of the Mafia aired on 9th April 2020 on MTV.
The four Staten Island women, formerly associated with La Cosa Nostra, try to prevent their children from making the same mistakes they did in this show.
Karen Gravano is one of the cast members of the show.

Karen is the daughter of Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano, a former underboss in the Gambino crime family who helped take down the Teflon Don, John Gotti.

Her father pleaded guilty to running a 50-person ecstasy ring and served over 17 years in prison. He was released early in September 2017.

Karen and Karina travel back to Arizona in the first episode of Families of the Mafia, where Sammy is released from prison and lives under supervised custody. However, her parents are divorced.

Karen’s mom lives out West. But they are unsure of who is still holding grudges against them in New York, Karen’s family urges her to leave New York to be with them where it’s safer.

Karina Seabrook with her mother Karen Gravano (Source: Wikibioage)

Sammy thinks that his daughter Karen and granddaughter Karina are in danger. Sammy said,

“There’s so much you don’t know,”

He added,

“In New York, there could be problems for you. If there’s a problem, call me.”

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Karen Gravano’s boyfriend Giovan “Storm”

It is not sure whether Karen is still in a relationship with Giovan or not. They don’t have pictures of each other on their social media pages, nor did they state whether or not they were still dating.

Karen Gravano with boyfriend Giovan (Source: Gossip Gist)

They appeared together on Mob Wives and Marriage Bootcamps. Karen wanted to go to the reality show to make their relationship healthy.

She said,

“I think a big thing in our relationship is he was misunderstood. He’s very guarded because of television … he’s not a reality star; he didn’t want to be one,”

She added,

“So on Mob Wives he didn’t want to talk about the relationship and it came across like he was just rude and that’s very different than the way our relationship is at home.”

Karen’s mob family background

In the past, Karen was not happy with her family and was ashamed of her mob family background. Despite her desire to protect her daughter from mafia involvement, Gravano acknowledges and claims the notable history of her family.

Previously, she followed her father’s footsteps, and the entire Gravano family was charged with mastermind[ing] an ecstasy ring that sold the drug from Arizona to New York in 2001.

Karen Gravano previous family background — Karen Gravano’s previous family background (Source: Radar Online)

She was 29 years old at that time and was responsible for the wire transfers of their drug-related transactions.

Likewise, she was also despised for her father’s decision to help authorities takedown “Dapper Don” John Gotti in 1991 in exchange for a plea deal.

After that, she avoided using the term mob in her life but now things have changed. She and her cousin opened a mob-themed Staten Island pizza joint called Pizza Nostra.

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Source: Cheatsheet, Heavy, New York Post

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