Deputy Inspector James Grant’s wife, who was supposed to receive his ill-gotten diamonds, is a raven-haired, “filthy-mouthed” “Big Ang” wannabe who took time out from her law career to seek reality-show fame.
Staten Island spitfire Michele Sileo, 42, describes herself on her legal-business website as part-Tony Soprano, part-dominatrix.
“Michele is a fat, hairy, bald man with a filthy mouth and a bad attitude,” declares her profile on the site for Lawyer Up, an operation that provides legal education to law students.
It adds, “In 2002, Michele gave up the lipstick ghetto … to bring her unique blend of whip-cracking and therapy to law students nationwide.”
Grant allegedly took hundreds of dollars in cash and diamonds from a local businessman at the center of a federal probe, and was told to give the gems to Sileo.
She might have been in a better position to afford her own baubles if her short-lived reality-TV show, “Staten Island Law,” had been as big a hit as other shows based in the borough, like the late Angela “Big Ang” Raiola’s “Mob Wives” on VH1.
Airing on Oprah’s OWN Network in 2013, “Staten Island Law” centered around Sileo’s mediation practice and took place mostly inside her home.
It never gained a following and was quickly canceled.
“I loved being able to show off mediation and how it is an alternative [to lawsuits],” Sileo said at the time.