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GOTTI EX MARRIES TERROR PRINCESS
By PERRY CHIARAMONTE and STEFANIE COHEN
July 14, 2008 —
Carmine Agnello has a thing for dangerous women – or at least dangerous fathers-in-law.
The man who married and divorced Victoria Gotti, daughter of the late “Dapper Don” John Gotti, has a new bride – the daughter of a terrorist, The Post has learned.
Agnello, 48, quietly married the beautiful, raven-haired daughter of Mourad “Moose” Topalian, a former leader in the world of Armenian terrorism.
Agnello, nicknamed “The Bull,” wed Danielle Vangar, nee Topalian, on Feb. 19, according to court documents obtained by The Post.
The lovebirds met about five years ago while Danielle, 35, was visiting her father in the same Ohio federal pen where Agnello was doing time on racketeering and tax-evasion raps.
Topalian was convicted of weapons and explosives possession after authorities in 1996 found a locker filled with more than 100 pounds of dynamite and a cache of guns that they traced back to the high-profile Armenian nationalist from Cleveland.
The feds claim Topalian helped plot the 1980 car bombing of the Turkish Mission to the United Nations in New York, which badly injured three passers-by.
He has maintained his innocence, saying in published reports that he copped a plea only to keep his family from the ordeal of a trial.
But a source told The Post that Topalian was the leader of a militant Armenian terrorist group dedicated to avenging his people’s genocide at the hands of Ottoman Turks in 1915.
His daughter and Agnello are now the picture of suburban bliss, living in a trim white colonial at the end of a cul-de-sac in the posh Cleveland suburb of Bentleyville.
Agnello has even opened a new business, Charity Towing, which hauls vehicles donated to nonprofit groups.
But while he’s busy playing house with his new bride, Agnello’s three sons by Victoria – Carmine, John and Frank – weren’t even told about the nuptials, said his ex-wife, Victoria Gotti.
“I wish him the best,” said Victoria, 46, when The Post broke the news to her. “But I can’t believe he didn’t tell the kids himself.”
She said Agnello, who is still on supervised release, has only visited the three boys once since he’s been out of jail.
“Like my mother always says, the government did me the biggest favor of my life,” Victoria said, referring to both Agnello’s arrest and the secret government recordings that revealed he’d been having a steamy affair with his bookkeeper, which led to the couple’s divorce in 2002.
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