Mob Wives star Renee Graziano claims 'snitch' husband's watch collection was FAKE and 'wired for surveillance' after she tried to sell it to pawn shop

Mob Wives star Renee Graziano recalled making a shocking discovery after trying to sell off 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 alleviate financial stress, she took his prized wrist pieces to a pawn shop, only to find that the jewelry was not only counterfeit but also rigged for surveillance. 

'My money's gone, so I take his watch collection and I go 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 they all have wires in them."'

Mob Wives star Renee Graziano recalled a shocking discovery after trying to sell off 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; pictured in 2011

The jeweler also suggested 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.

As it turned out, Pagan had orchestrated a deal with the Feds to evade a longer prison sentence in his murder case. 

He wore a hidden 'wire' recorder and taped Graziano's father, reputed crime boss Anthony 'TG' Graziano, as part of an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration probe.

In 2003, Graziano was indicted on federal racketeering and extortion charges, bookmaking, and murder 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 slammed Hector for his 'disgraceful' choices, calling him a 'snitch.'

'He's a liar. He's a disgrace. He doesn't deserve to breathe,' she added. 

'He put my father... who wanted to give him my last name so he could be the gangster he wanted to be... and you are a rat? You got your son hurt, you beat your wife. You are a p****.'

To alleviate financial stress, she took his prized wrist pieces to a pawn shop, only to find that the jewelry was not only counterfeit but also rigged for surveillance

'My money's gone, so I take his watch collection and I go 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 they all have wires in them."' 

The jeweler also suggested 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 

Pagan was released from prison in 2021. 

The Celebrity Big Brother alum — who shared a meaningful post celebrating 40 days of sobriety just weeks earlier — also opened up about her near-fatal fentanyl overdose in 2023 during the appearance.

She recalled the harrowing incident in September 2023 after consuming an unspecified drug laced with fentanyl.

'I OD'd,' she recalled. 'I just lost my whole life. I couldn't come up for air.'

She noted that at the time her sister Jennifer Graziano 'wasn't talking to me for a year and a half' and her son AJ Pagan, 29, 'didn't want to talk' to her either.

'Everything in my life was falling apart,' she said. 'Nobody wanted to talk to me. Everything just started piling up and piling up and piling up and piling up. I gave up.'

'I just, like, lost my s***, man,' she admitted. 'Someone gave me a bag of fentanyl.'

She said that the next thing she knew was that she 'died in a restaurant in Florida'.

'I was dead, intubated for three days,' she continued before adding that she 'spent nine days there learning how to walk again'. 

'That was it for me,' she said about what motivated her to go to rehab. 'They said I wasn't going to make it.'

Hector wore a hidden 'wire' recorder and taped Graziano's father, reputed crime boss Anthony 'TG' Graziano, as part of an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration probe; seen in 2017

In 2003, Graziano was indicted on federal racketeering and extortion charges, bookmaking, and murder 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 does not 'remember anything as the 'three days were wiped from my brain' — 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 that, however, she said she understood her loved ones' reasoning and 'doesn't blame them' as she put her family 'through hell' in the time leading up to her near-fatal overdose.

Afterwards, she entered a rehab facility before later transferring to Lamar Odom's Southern California wellness center for trauma therapy.