Mob Wives star Renee Graziano recalled making a shocking discovery after trying to sell her ex-husband’s watch collection.
The 55-year-old reality TV star said she was left with a mountain of bills after her former partner Hector Pagan was sentenced to prison for murder in 2014.
To ease the financial stress, she took his prized wrist pieces to a pawn shop, only to discover that the jewelry was not only counterfeit, but had been rigged for surveillance.
“I’m out of money, so I’m taking his watch collection and going to the jeweler,” she explained during her stop at the Dumb Blonde podcast on Wednesday.
“The jeweler comes and says, ‘Renee, sit down.’” she continued. ‘The watches are all fake and have all kinds of wires in them.’
Mob Wives star Renee Graziano recalled a shocking discovery after she tried to sell her ex-husband’s watch collection
The 55-year-old reality TV star said she was left with a mountain of bills after her former partner Hector Pagan was sentenced to prison for murder in 2014; in the photo in 2011
The jeweler also suggested that Renee take off the watch she was wearing at the time, a Rolex that Hector had given her while she was sick in a hospital.
It turned out that Pagan had made a deal with the FBI to avoid a longer prison sentence in his murder case.
Wearing a hidden “wire” recorder, he recorded Graziano’s father, noted crime boss Anthony “TG” Graziano, as part of an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration investigation.
In 2003, Graziano was indicted on federal racketeering and racketeering, book-making and murder charges based on the recorded conversations with his son-in-law.
He was released from prison in 2011 and died in 2019.
On the Dumb Blonde podcast, Renee lambasted Hector for his “shameful” choices and called him a “traitor.”
‘He’s a liar. He’s a disgrace. He doesn’t deserve to breathe,” she added.
“He has my father… who wanted to give him my last name so he could be the gangster he wanted to be… and you’re a rat? Your son got hurt, you hit your wife. You are a ****.’
To ease the financial stress, she took his prized wrist pieces to a pawn shop, only to discover that the jewelry was not only counterfeit, but had been rigged for surveillance.
“I’m out of money, so I’m taking his watch collection and going to the jeweler,” she explained during her stop on the Dumb Blonde podcast on Wednesday. “The jeweler comes and says, ‘Renee, sit down.’” she continued. ‘The watches are all fake and have all kinds of wires in them.’
The jeweler also suggested that Renee take off the watch she was wearing at the time, a Rolex that Hector had given her when she was sick in a hospital.
Pagan was released from prison in 2021.
The Celebrity Big Brother alum — who just weeks earlier shared a meaningful post celebrating 40 days of sobriety — also opened up about her near-fatal fentanyl overdose in 2023 during the appearance.
She recalled the harrowing incident in September 2023 after taking an unspecified drug laced with fentanyl.
“I had an overdose,” she recalled. “I just lost my entire life. I couldn’t come up for air.’
She noted that at the time, her sister Jennifer Graziano “hadn’t talked to me in a year and a half” and her son AJ Pagan, 29, “wouldn’t talk to her either.”
“Everything in my life fell apart,” she said. ‘Nobody wanted to talk to me. Everything started piling up and piling up and piling up and piling up. I gave up.’
“I just lost my dick, man,” she admitted. “Someone gave me a bag of fentanyl.”
She said the next thing she knew she was “dying in a restaurant in Florida.”
“I was dead, intubated for three days,” she continued, before adding that she “spent nine days there learning to walk again.”
“That was it for me,” she said of what motivated her to go to rehab. “They said I wouldn’t make it.”
Wearing a hidden “wire” recorder, Hector recorded Graziano’s father, noted crime boss Anthony “TG” Graziano, as part of an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration investigation; seen in 2017
In 2003, Graziano was indicted on federal racketeering and racketeering, book-making and murder charges based on the recorded conversations with his son-in-law. He was released from prison in 2011 and died in 2019
During that time, Graziano — who said she “doesn’t remember anything” because the “three days were wiped from my mind” — said “no one in my family came to the hospital.”
She said they simply “didn’t want” to see her and “they just couldn’t do it.”
Despite this, she said she understood her loved ones’ reasoning and “didn’t blame them” when she put her family “through hell” in the time leading up to her near-fatal overdose.
She then went to a drug rehabilitation center before later being transferred to Lamar Odom’s Wellness Center in Southern California for trauma therapy.
