Mob boss's daughter stars in series

The bottle blonde is a divorced single mom with three teenagers.
By FRAZIER MOORE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
"People make a lot of stupid assumptions about me when they hear my name," says Victoria Gotti. No kidding.
But that's the whole point of "Growing Up Gotti," A & amp;E's new unscripted series: to knock down certain obvious assumptions about the daughter of deceased mob boss John Gotti.
And to reinforce others: The vulgar extravagance of this full-figured bottle blonde and her three full-of-'tude teens is also part of the appeal.
It's part "Sopranos," part "One Day at a Time" ("This is life, the one you get, so go and have a ball"), and opens with this divorced single mom deciding to put up for sale her 6-acre estate and also to start dating again.
The boys aren't happy about either plan. "I wanna go out on a blind date, too: the biggest slut in New York," sneers 14-year-old Frank, Victoria's youngest.
The first date arranged by her high-end matchmaker isn't exactly a success: He's mostly hairless and charmless.
Victoria's brother Peter drops by for dinner. But absent from the opener: John A. "Junior" Gotti, indicted last week for plotting to kidnap and attempting to murder talk-show host Curtis Sliwa in 1992.
"The only mob I run is the one I have at home," Victoria declares in a voiceover. Got it.
"Growing Up Gotti" premieres Monday at 9:30 p.m.
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