Made in Staten Island is the new MTV reality show that follows a handful of young people who grew up in the borough of New York City “with family ties to the street life.” Karina Seabrook is dubbed “The Mob Princess” as her grandfather is Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano, former underboss of the Gambino crime family, who worked with the Feds and testified against John Gotti in the 1990s. Gravano was recently released from prison after serving 18 years for operating an Ecstasy drug ring in Arizona. (Karina’s mother, Karen Gravano of Mob Wives, is the executive producer of Made In Staten Island.)
While Karina considers college, her co-star Christian “C.P.” Patterson is considering prison. On the show, C.P. visits his father, Mack “Butter” Patterson, “up top” — that’s street slang for prison. Patterson is serving five years at the Marcy Correctional Facility in Utica, New York. He was the ringleader of the Staten Island heroin ring that sold a deadly dose of heroin — under the street name “Passion” — to a 24-year-old woman. Patterson and six accomplices were arrested under “Operation Smack Down.” (Smack is street terminology for heroin.)
While filming Made In Staten Island, C.P. faces his own potential prison sentence for attempted murder. C.P. was at a house party in Staten Island in 2017 when an 18-year-old was stabbed multiple times with a box cutter. C.P. says “I didn’t stab nobody but I was involved in the fight so they indicted me on attempted murder, assault one, assault two, assault three, assault with a deadly weapon.” He says, “I was just at the wrong place at the wrong time, honestly.”
In 2018, Daniel Milton pleaded guilty to first-degree assault in the case and was sentenced to five years in prison and five years post-release supervision. C.P. pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault for attacking the same victim and got three years’ probation. Made in Staten Island airs Mondays at 10 pm on MTV, right after Teen Mom 2.
