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Victoria Gotti’s million-dollar New York mansion, made famous by her debut on the reality show ‘Growing Up Gotti’, has been repossessed by a bank.
The $2.65 million Old Westbury home was once owned by Victoria’s mob father John Gotti and has been abandoned since the FBI raided the mansion in 2016 as part of a tax fraud investigation involving the daughter of the mafia and their children, according to Page six.
Now JP Morgan Chase National Bank snapped up the house in October for $2.65 million when it went up for auction.
The Long Island mansion looks like it could use some work as seaweed fills the partially empty pool and weeds poke through the cement.
Victoria Gotti’s million-dollar home was bought by JP Morgan in October. The house was seen on the reality show ‘Growing Up Gotti’ from 2004 to 2007 on A&E with Victoria and her children. In the photo: the mansion before the raid.
Victoria Gotti left the house in 2016 after the FBI raided the house in connection with a tax fraud investigation against her family. Family: Victoria and her children (left to right) John, Frankie and Carmine starred on the reality show ‘Growing Up Gotti.’ The family is shown here in 2004.
The Gotti family auto parts store, run by Victoria’s sons Carmine, John and Frank Gotti Agnello, was also raided by the FBI in 2016.
Carmine Agnello, Victoria’s ex-husband, ran the store until he handed it over to his children.
Victoria Gotti left Agnello about 19 years ago after he was caught cheating on her with his Queens secretary, and was also convicted of extortion.
The family appeared on ‘Growing Up Gotti’, which ran from 2004 to 2007 on A&E.
It was canceled due to low ratings, according to NBC.
It appears that Victoria has had a long foreclosure battle with JP Morgan for nearly two decades.
Victoria became the sole owner of the house in 2004.
He reportedly owed JP Morgan $650,000 in mortgage payments in 2009 after not paying for two years.
At the time, Gotti had a plan to use her ex-husband’s money from the land he lost when he was convicted to pay for the house.
But it’s not clear if he ever did.
“I’m never going to lose that house,” Gotti previously told The New York Daily News.
Victoria previously attempted to sell the home for $4.8 million even though it was worth $3.2 million at the time, the news outlet reported.
Victoria’s rise to fame began with her father John, who became known in the late 1980s when he was given the nickname ‘The Teflon Don’ due to his ability to beat multiple rap sheets.
JP Morgan Chase National Bank snapped up the house in October for $2.65 million when it went up for auction. In the photo: the house before the raid.
The Long Island mansion looks like it could use some work as seaweed fills the partially empty pool and weeds poke through the cement. In the photo: the house recently
The house seems to have an abandoned look since the family moved.
Victoria became the sole owner of the house in 2004. In the photo: the house before the raid
The house has marble countertops and white cabinets.
The house appeared to be vandalized in some areas following the FBI raid.
It appears that construction was being done on the house. It is not clear if the construction is recent.
The bushes seemed to be growing over a stake on the property.
The work of the FBI seemed to be intact in the living room since 2016
The books remained on the shelves in the house after years of being abandoned.
He was also known as the ‘Dapper Don’ because he always appeared immaculately dressed in expensive suits in public.
John became head of the Gambino family, one of the five traditionally dominant mob families in New York, in 1985 after ordering a hit on its boss, Paul ‘Big Paul’ Castellano.
Castellano and his driver were shot and killed in front of the Sparks steakhouse in midtown Manhattan. Gotti apparently saw the hit fall from a car parked across the street.
Gotti was never brought to trial for Castellano’s murder and was acquitted of other crimes in two separate trials, both surrounded by rumors of jury rigging and intimidation.
Finally, in 1992, Gotti was convicted under the new RICO laws, designed to target mob bosses, and jailed for life without the possibility of parole for racketeering and murder.
Despite Victoria’s connection to her mobster father, she previously stated that she is not associated with the family business.
John Gotti was the boss of the Gambino crime family. He died in prison in 2002.
Despite Victoria’s connection to her mobster father, she previously stated that she is not associated with the family business.
“The preconceived notions about my life that I would like to change or make people more aware of, right, is that I think the whole aura that life was so easy and I was this princess all my life. It was anything but that,’ she told Page Six in 2019.
She then went on to debunk the myth that she was merely a ‘mob princess’.
“Through the grace of God, I have had the great opportunity to live an amazing life, an amazing, amazing life,” Victoria said. ‘I grew up very poor. I don’t know what this whole princess business is about.
Before launching her reality show, Victoria also wrote a series of thrillers in the 2000s.