Tommy DeVito’s popularity over the last few weeks has grown exponentially but it also may have gotten him in some trouble with a New Jersey pizzeria.
Coniglio’s Old Fashioned pizzeria clams DeVito’s agent doubled the price for a two-hour visit after the New York Giants win over the Packers on Monday Night Football two weeks ago.
On Monday, the pizzeria posted on Instagram that DeVito would no longer be making an appearance at the restaurant for an autograph signing after his agent, Sean Stellato, increased the appearance free from $10,000 to $20,000. The pizzeria claimed it couldn’t afford to host DeVito at that price, so the event had to be canceled.
No @tommydevito will NOT be @coniglios this Tuesday as originally planned. After last week’s win we received word from his agent that his appearance fee would be doubling (went from 10k to 20); We are a small family run business & decided $20,000 was a bit steep for 2 hours 🤷♀️
Apologies to anyone who had already purchased a ticket 🎫
Stellato did dispute the allegation of a last-minute price increase, telling The Action Network’s Darren Rovell that there was never a formal agreement between the two parties:
Nino Coniglio, the owner of the pizzeria, clapped back with a screenshot of messages with Stellato. In the screenshots Coniglio sent to Rovell, it appears that there was at least a tentative agreement at $10,000 for DeVito’s visit:
The DeVito hype train slowed down a bit following the 24-6 loss to the New Orleans Saints on Sunday. He was sacked seven times in that game.
