Sopranos alum Drea De Matteo’s real estate portfolio has depleted significantly in recent years – with the TV star revealing this week that she had no choice but to join OnlyFans amid her flagging fortunes.
The 51-year-old actress, who rose to fame as Adriana La Cerva on the HBO drama series, announced her foray into the adult subscription site, known for its explicit content, last month and charges $15 to users to access its racy downloads.
De Matteo has since claimed that she was forced to join because her refusal to get the COVID vaccine prevented her from finding work in Hollywood.
“I guess you could say I was a bad girl because I didn’t follow the rules a few years ago,” she said in a recent interview with Fox News as she s opened with his registration on the site.
“So I never want to be at the mercy of mandates or strikes or anything like that ever again.
“I used to have a lot of money. And then, all of a sudden, I went from being allowed to work to never being allowed to work again. I was never the type of actor who would take a job just to stay in the business. I literally took a job to feed my family.
She also revealed that her 15-year-old daughter, Alabama Gypsyrose, even helped her edit her steamy images.
De Matteo’s launch of OnlyFans follows the listing of his four-bedroom Los Angeles property for $3.6 million – years after his New York apartment burned down.
Here, DailyMail.com takes a look at De Matteo’s spiraling real estate portfolio as the actress alleges her stance on COVID-19 mandates worked against her.
The Sopranos star Drea De Matteo has launched an OnlyFans account that will cost fans of the mafia drama $15 a month.
Her OnlyFans bio simply says “The Sopranos” and her profile picture is of her sitting naked on a bed with a cigarette in her hand.
Drea De Matteo New York City was destroyed by a devastating gas explosion in 2015.
De Matteo’s New York apartment at 123 Second Avenue was destroyed in a 2015 explosion.
Three buildings in the city’s East Village collapsed following a gas-related explosion, which left 22 people injured – four of them seriously – and two people missing at the time.
The actress lived there with other celebrities, including designer Charlotte Ronson, for almost 22 years.
“New York’s finest are trying to put out the flames in mine and many other apartments. Speechless…” she wrote in a post shared on her Instagram and Facebook pages at the time. “(Praying) for those who are hurt.”
De Matteo’s New York apartment at 123 Second Avenue was destroyed in a 2015 explosion.
His East Village home burned to the ground after a gas explosion
Paying tribute: De Matteo expressed his sadness over losing his apartment of 22 years on social media
In another photo, she added: “A hole where my NYC home used to be for the last 22 years…RIP 123 2nd Avenue.”
She spoke about the tragedy two years after the fire, admitting that she hoped to receive money in damages because she could not cope with the skyrocketing cost of living in New York.
“I lived most of my life in that apartment — I made some beautiful memories there,” she said in a 2017 interview. “I was a real girl from the East Village.”
“I want to be reimbursed, mainly because of my grief, my stress and (my inability) to cover the cost of living in New York,” she continued to the New York Post.
“People think, ‘She’s on a TV show, she’ll be fine.’ I’m not one of those actors who rolls with money.
The star sold the Hamptons family home her parents built to developers in 2022
Last year, De Matteo parted ways with the Hamptons home that her parents Albert and Donna De Matteo built together in the ’90s.
The TV star sold the sprawling waterfront property to interior designer Whitney Noelle and tech founder Damian Mogavero for $3.1 million – with the couple then spending most of 12 months of struggling for a complete renovation.
Following its revamp, the impressive getaway, described as an “artist’s paradise”, benefited from luxury additions such as a swimming pool and wine cellar.
It also has its own private beach on Three Mile Harbor.
De Matteo sold his parents’ house in the Hamptons to interior designer Whitney Noelle and tech founder Damian Mogavero last year.
The sprawling waterfront property, which was built by her mother and father in the 1990s, has been listed for $3.1 million.
Following its sale, new owners Noelle and Mogavero spent several months renovating it.
The renovated home hit the market in June and was listed for sale at $5.99 million.
Following its revamp, the impressive getaway, described as an “artist’s paradise”, benefited from luxury additions such as a swimming pool and wine cellar.
De Matteo listed his Hollywood Hills home for sale in June after shaving $200,000 off the original asking price.
According to Zillow, De Matteo’s four-bedroom, three-bathroom Spanish turret in Los Angeles, which features an outdoor pool with a separate spa and a huge fireplace, was listed for sale for the first time in 20 years in FEBRUARY.
The 3,439 square foot home was initially valued at $3.8 million before the price dropped by $200,000 to $3.6 million just a month later.
The listing was completely removed in May before finally being reinstated in June for $3.6 million.
De Matteo purchased her Los Angeles residence, nestled in the Hollywood Hills, in 2004 – but according to property records, she partnered on and off with Amanda Cavallacci to co-own the property over the past seven years. last years.
Cavallacci’s name first appeared on deeds in 2016, with the couple remortgaging the house in 2018 and 2019.
More recently, De Matteo became sole owner again, having taken out a mortgage herself in February 2022.
De Matteo’s Hollywood career exploded before the turn of the century due to her role as the longtime girlfriend of Tony Soprano’s protégé Christopher Moltisanti.
De Matteo played Adriana La Cerva on The Sopranos for seven years and her character was the longtime girlfriend, then fiancée, of Tony Soprano protégé Christopher Moltisanti.
She won an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2004 for her performance in the hit series.
De Matteo played Gina, Joey Tribbiani’s sister, on the Friends spin-off Joey from 2004 to 2006.
Her performance in the HBO series earned her an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2004.
Since her exit from the drama in 2006, De Matteo has appeared in Desperate Housewives and the ABC series A Million Little Things.
Most recently, she was part of the main cast of the Prime Video musical drama Paradise City and was invited as a guest star in Mayans MC.
On film, she last appeared in the 2022 crime thriller One Way alongside Colson Baker and Kevin Bacon.
