Everything You Need to Know About Karina Seabrook From 'Families of the Mafia'

Who is Karina Seabrook? 'Families of the Mafia' features the Gravanos, together with 'Mob Wives' megastar Karen Gravano and her daughter, Karina.

The Gravanos are laying it all naked on MTV's The Families of the Mafia. And the perfect part? It's in truth now not a carbon replica of the arguable Made in Staten Island. 

Along with 4 different households, Karen Gravano and her daughter, Karina Seabrook, are documenting what it is like to live with ties to the mafia. And in their case, it's Salvatore Gravano (aka "Sammy The Bull"), former underboss of the Gambino crime circle of relatives. But in spite of the Gravanos' dark historical past, something is already transparent: They're made up our minds to transfer on with their lives and keep on the proper path. 

But how a lot do we actually know about Karen's daughter, Karina? And how does she stand with her maternal grandfather post-Made in Staten Island? Here's what we know.

Who is Karina Seabrook from 'Families of the Mafia'?

Karina used to be born to Mob Wives big name Karen Gravano and David Seabrook in Arizona in 1999. But only a 12 months after she used to be born, her father and grandfather Sammy (who labored together) have been sent to prison for selling ecstasy tablets. It was once round this time when her oldsters had been engaged and planning to get married, but they could not change vows because of the lengthy jail sentence. Eventually, her oldsters separated when she was once 10 years previous. 

Karina, who's of combined ethnicity (Italian-American and African-American), lived along with her father in Arizona for four years after the split, then moved to New York to reside with her mom. 

She said: "I first moved from Arizona to New York when I was 14 years old, and I was a little nervous because I knew that when I came to New York, I would have to start all over again. But I started to get comfortable, I met people, I was going out, I got a boyfriend."

She lately is living in New York and is enrolled in faculty. However, she did a lot more than get settled in her new home. 

'The Families of the Mafia' is not Karina's first truth sequence.

You might acknowledge her from VH1's Mob Wives and particularly MTV's controversial Made in Staten Island, the place she spread out about existence in New York and shared her desire to tell her personal story, in spite of her circle of relatives's previous.  

In an interview, she said: "I would never ever turn my back on [my grandfather] or my family, but I live a completely different life, to be honest I probably know the least about the mob than anyone."

Made in Staten Island was once met with tons of backlash, with claims that it misrepresented Staten Island and perpetuated damaging stereotypes about Italian-Americans. A petition used to be additionally launched on Change.org, calling for the series to take away Staten Island from their display because they portrayed the borough as "a cesspool of gangsters, meatheads, and low lives." Yikes.

Karina defended to sequence, claiming that individuals have been best "judging a book by its cover." But MTV simplest aired 3 episodes in 2019 prior to quietly pulling the plug. It wasn't until March 2020 when the community introduced their plans to remake the display as Families of the Mafia. 

Who is Karina Seabrook's boyfriend?

Speaking of Made in Staten Island, Karina debuted her romantic relationship with her boyfriend and former co-star, Paulie Fuscos, on the collection. They've reportedly been courting for years, but many have labeled their relationship as toxic as a result of of the fights they'd on the short-lived series. However, Paulie insisted that they had been simply tremendous.

He said: "We have an up and down relationship, but we never lose sight of each other. It's just like anybody else's relationship. Everybody fights, [it's] just that not everybody sees it. We are not shy to show you the real meat of our relationship." 

Paulie additionally unfolded about the positive have an effect on that Karina had on his existence, announcing that he used to be a "lost cause" sooner than she came into his lifestyles and "whipped him up into shape."

Is Karina nonetheless shut along with her grandfather?

Back when she starred in Made in Staten Island, she printed that she stayed in conversation together with her grandfather by calling him on a weekly basis. But being so restricted proved to be a problem for her. She said:  "All my memories [of my grandfather] were of going to visit him in jail. It was hard for me." 

But on a brighter observe, Sammy used to be launched early from prison in 2017, and Karina isn't passing up the opportunity to attach along with her grandfather.

On The Families of the Mafia, she said: "I haven't always had the relationship with my grandfather that I could've because he has been in prison for practically my whole life, but I'm older now, so maybe I can understand a little more of who he is and make up for all the years that he did miss of my life."

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