Renee Graziano: Mobster Dad, Rat Ex-Husband & Mob Wives

Locked In with Ian Bick

Ian Bick

Society & Culture

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Renee Graziano joins Ian Bick for a conversation about growing up in a powerful mob family, marrying her ex-husband Hector Pagan, discovering he was a rat, and navigating the chaos that came with her father Anthony Graziano’s prison time. Known for her breakout role on Mob Wives, Renee opens up about the reality of being raised in organized crime, the emotional toll of betrayal, her battles with addiction, and how fame magnified everything she was already struggling with. She breaks down what viewers never saw on Mob Wives, how the show changed her life, what it was really like being one of the most recognizable faces on reality TV, and how she’s been rebuilding her life with honesty and strength. #ReneeGraziano #MobWives #MafiaStories #OrganizedCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #MobLife #CrimeDocumentary #ianbick Thank you to AURA FRAMES & PRIZEPICKS for sponsoring this episode: Aura Frames: Exclusive $35 off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/LOCKEDIN. Promo Code LOCKEDIN Prizepicks: Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/IANBICK and use code IANBICK and get $50 in lineups when you play your first $5 lineup! Connect with Renee Graziano: https://www.instagram.com/reneegraziano/?hl=en Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ Shop Locked In Merch: http://www.ianbick.com/shop Timestamps: 00:00 Renee Introduces Her Early Life & Childhood Roots 03:30 Staten Island Memories, Family Stories & Growing Up Mob-Adjacent 10:30 Realizing Her Life Was Different: Early Signs & Family Secrets 18:20 Mob Life Up Close: First Arrests, Loyalty & Family Dynamics 27:00 Marriage, Betrayal & Iconic Mob Weddings 34:30 Motherhood: Raising Her Son & Navigating Hard Conversations 41:10 Losing Loved Ones: Family in Jail, Grief & Coping Mechanisms 46:20 Addiction, Recovery & Holding a Family Together 52:20 Mob Wives: How the Show Started, Drama, Reactions & Behind-the-Scenes Truths 01:01:50 The Betrayal: The Watch, the Wire & the Fallout That Changed Everything 01:15:30 Mob Wives Finale, More Loss & Reinventing Herself After the Show 01:25:30 Recovery, Public Perception & Fighting for Personal Growth 01:34:50 Family, Regret & the Biggest Lessons Renee Learned Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.8	It was about 13 or 14 because I had my first boyfriend
0:32.6	And unfortunately he was abusive and I remember my father making that phone call like meet me in the parking lot with your son
0:38.3	Did you know what the mob was growing up before you ever before you got older?
0:42.3	That was a scary experience. I was like, let me read that. You can't take him. Who am I calling?
0:47.3	And I'm trying to call somebody in the middle of the night. It's like two in the morning on a Thursday when the feds come.
0:53.3	And him just saying I'll be back before the morning. What's a mob-related wedding like? I want to be a mob wife. How does mob wives come around? The best way for you to explain is Goodfellas. That was a real thing. Now, during mob wives, you and your ex, were you guys together? Because he wasn't a lot of the first couple
1:11.6	seasons, like before the incident happened. People were like, oh, she must know what she must
1:15.2	done on. I didn't know fucking anything. Under no way, shape, or form. I probably would have smothered
1:20.0	I'm dead ass. I don't even, that's my father and my son's. That's my son. So it's, my father
1:27.2	belonged to a life that he knew consequences.
1:29.8	My son did not deserve any.
1:31.1	Everyone knows Renee Graziano from Mob Wives,
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