Lauren Manzo and ex Vito Scalia attend Albie Manzo’s second wedding
Lauren Manzo and estranged husband Vito Scalia apparently paths crossed with her brother Albie Manzoweekend wedding ceremony.
Albie, 37, and wife Chelsea DeMonaco held a second wedding party on Saturday, November 25. According to Instagram Story footage, both Lauren, 35, and Scalia, 37, were in attendance.
Lauren posted several photos from the celebration to her Instagram Story on Sunday, November 26, showing off her black guest dress as she posed with other attendees. Scalia was a guest Joe Desposati‘s Story post, which Albie reshared. Saturday’s wedding also included a special cameo from actors dressed as Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus.
Albie and DeMonaco were married for the first time in October in Piegaro, Italy. Albie and Lauren’s parents, Albert And Caroline Manzowere also in attendance, as were Lauren and their brother Chris Manzo.
“Congratulations to my brother @albiemanzo and sister @chelseajmanzo on their wedding,” Lauren gushed via Instagram at the time. “What a perfect few days. 🤍 I love you both. I wish we could stay here forever!”
Days before the wedding, news broke that Scalia had filed for divorce from Lauren.
‘By now you have seen the news that has broken out. I just want to let you know that we are doing well,” she said in an Instagram video on October 24. “This has been happening for a long time. The final part of the process was filing. We were on the same page. This is something we did together.”
Lauren noted that she and Scalia, who married in July 2015, planned to co-parent their 6-year-old daughter, Markie.
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“All that matters to us is that our daughter is happy and healthy,” Lauren added. “Our privacy is important to us. We haven’t been on TV for seven years so we didn’t need a dramatic announcement. And we continue to move forward with love and respect for each other. And we’ll always be a family, and that’s all. It is about our daughter and her privacy, because she did not ask to be on TV, we did.”
Lauren and Scalia were initially introduced by Albie, who had been friends with Scalia for a long time. Lauren and her estranged husband dated for four years before getting engaged in November 2013.
In 2019, Lauren and Scalia weathered speculation of a split after they stopped posting photos together on social media.
“We just don’t put our relationship on social media and people don’t seem to understand that,” he wrote via Facebook in January 2019. “We are perfect!!!!!”