No that is not Chris Crocker’s Britney Spears-inspired shrill. It’s me, and I really think people need to lay off these girls. As you are most likely aware at this point, the “Fabulous” Noel sisters, having danced in the social spotlight for the last several years, were thrown into the national spotlight when their father, Walter Noel, and his company Fairfield Greenwich Group (FGG) sent over 7 billion dollars to money heaven via its investment in Bernard Madoff. Making matters worse, four of the five sisters husbands worked at FGG and the family’s recent success was chronicled in several glossy publications over the last few years.
As a result, they have been ripe targets for media pot shots. Interest stories and reporting are fair game, but more recently the coverage has turned to flat out mean, coming to a head with Plant 6 Page 6’s latest hearsay piece. I hate to reprint some of the elements of the piece but feel it necessary to make my point.
1) Four of the Noel sisters dated the same guy in college - Implausible at best. With over a decade separating the girls, whoever this “guy” was would have needed to have been in multiple college campuses during this time period. Moreover, all accounts point to them being studious and continent girls who attended top schools (Harvard, Yale, Brown, and Georgetown) and married on the young side
2) Lisina Noel wore a white mink coat - Highly dubious. Everything seems to point to the fact that these girls know how to dress, and wearing white mink coats doesn’t seem to fit into the equation.
3) In Brazil, the Noel sisters stole many girls boyfriends - Again, highly dubious. The Noel girls may be of Brazilian heritage, but they never lived in Brazil. Furthermore, they don’t appear as the type of girls that need to “steal” boyfriends, but fall more into the category of having to beat Cariocas away with a stick.
White mink coat? I’ve always wondered how I’d look in one?
Am I to confer that they are no longer fashionable.
And yes the world can be a mean place, especially if you had the bad grace to be caught up with Bernie Madoff.
I wonder how Bernie would look in a white mink coat?
Oops I think he’s going to be wearing and orange jumpsuit…now I’m sure that’s the real social faux pas…
omg u guyz marisa SO did not play mouthknuckles under the bleachers after homecoming! like for realz u guyz need to get a life!!!111
Seriously, be adults and let them defend themselves. I’m sure they don’t need or want you folks getting their back on teh intarwebs.
pracgirl December 29, 2008 12:08pm
Hmmmm…aren’t the Noel’s the ones that hired PR firms to get stories like this in the press? Live big on other peoples money…lose big when others lose their hard earned money because Daddy Noel and the sons in law cannot decipher FRAUD. Get a grip girlie. Bet you’d think different if it was your retirement.
ps everytime I see Ariane Noel I think it’s Lizzie Grubman.
? December 29, 2008 2:04pm
How do you know she didn’t wear a coat?
Rational Thinker December 29, 2008 4:07pm
Why should people lay off thes Noel girls when they have lived (and will probably continue to live) a luxurious life built on ill-gotten gains?
Jaime December 29, 2008 4:12pm
Those girls, more like women past their prime, are NOT attractive.
Truth Hurts December 29, 2008 5:10pm
The Noel clan have bigger problems to be concerned with than media scrutiny and castigation. Their father bilked Colombian investors out of millions! If I were them:
1) I’d be in a plastic surgeons chair immediately
3) I’d shut off all contact with family and friends and move to a 3rd world country
2) I’d carry a loaded gun everywhere I went
safadao December 29, 2008 5:26pm
Nossa! You think Cariocas would have to be beaten away with a stick because of these two cavalas? More like Cariocas would beat them with a stick! On a positive note…they do have good teeth.
I think Rachelle’s point is simple. The girls were not involved with Madoff, it was their husbands and father Walter Noel. No one is saying they are above press coverage, but whatever coverage they receive should be above board so to speak.
there should also be more rainbows, kittens should never grow up, and vodka should make me look younger. this family is not backward about being forward. they’ve spent years making sure people talk about them. it’s too late to start dictating what the public is allowed to say at this point.
anonymous December 29, 2008 7:04pm
“the girls were not involved”–are you out of their mind…first, four of their husbands–carefully recruited by the girls–worked at and are partners in FGG, and they (the wives) jet setted around the world and were complicit with if not directly involved with the scam….they sought the spotlight, basked in it, and are now getting their just desserts. I hope to see them on the cover of a hamptons magazine living in an Amana refrigirator box, which, by the way, is better than they deserve. Phony, pretentiois, theiving, criminal scum. They have stolen every dollar they have…I hope they rot.
Vooch December 29, 2008 7:14pm
Get real - these horsefaced tramps spent a small fortune w/ PR flacks so people would talk. They participated in a fraud of horrific scale. They gloried in the high life, stealing from widows and orphans.
Anonymous December 29, 2008 7:15pm
I heard they can suck the paint off a fire hydrant
Again we should avoid calling them “horsefaced” or referring to physical features…
I think Rachelle is correct in wanting to stick to the facts, and not degenerate into attacks on physical features or baseless rumors regarding their dating lives, etc.
FYI, Gofg is by no means apologists for the sisters, we have covered the family quite in depth.
But I think we can all agree that kittens shouldn’t grow up. kittens? great stuff right?
anonymous December 29, 2008 7:32pm
Fact,they benefitted directly from the theft and fraud conducted by their husbands, fathers, and possibly themselves. Fact, their wealth is ill-gotten, and their conduct, criminal. They are the epitome of greed and arrogance on a massive scale. They deserve to go broke, to jail, and to somewhere else…Fact, they make me sick to my stomach.
they LOVED the attention. hired a publicist to brag and gloat about money that wasn’t their own. have they worked a day in their lives? no ladies, charity work for your own exposure (pics on style.com, VF, etc.)doesn’t count. oh no someone judged a photo that you worked so hard for everyone to see!! boo hoo hoo someone called a noel sister horse faced!! i dont even want to think about how ugly this family is on the inside, even before the scandal broke. let’s focus our attention on people who truly deserve sympathy. not this tacky tacky family.
Anonymous December 29, 2008 11:14pm
i think defending the sisters is unacceptable as if they didn’t know what was going on. it’s sick that they are living it up while others have lost everything they’ve worked their entire life for
1) These girls are not attractive. You can ride them with a saddle and lose equestrian awards on them.
2) Too many here have no clue. The girls are not criminal, just benefited from wealth. If you gave their father’s firm the opportunity to “not be screwed out of $7.5 billion” versus being screwed out of it, well which do you think they would prefer?
3) Learn the details of the fraud before displaying ones own jealousy or envy of wealthy people, otherwise you cannot possibly correctly place blame.
4) The blame should be placed on Madoff mostly, and on any firm that did not do due diligence in referring money to Madoff. Obviously tons of people fell into that category. Not criminals themselves, per se, just stupid or lacking attention to detail. Like Spielberg or various large banks.
“…but fall more into the category of having to beat Cariocas away with a stick.”
^ Damn. Are dudes in Brazil that hard up? Highly dubious…
Kosta December 30, 2008 10:17am
The Noel sisters will be turned into $50 whores by the time this is over. Investors will have to be made whole. Daddy Noel was Madoff’s bagman. The Noel girls social climbing lifestyle was subsidized by theft and they will learn the hard way that crime doesn’t pay!!!
anon December 30, 2008 10:36am
I highly doubt the face of the girl on the left is real. I have never seen that elongated a face on a human in my entire life. It is a total caricature, perhaps even prohibited by the laws of physics. I suspect photoshop.
---- December 30, 2008 12:13pm
we all know stanley is not a real person, so why use a fake name to defend your position?? it doesn’t make you sound more credible…
Live by the sword, die by the sword, except when you don’t feel like it.
SO the p.r. game turned within itself, capriciousness, fraud, and lack of clarity (on all sides) exposed everyone.
Horse faces, little kitty cats and vodka shots, all sadly true but I wonder if what’s important here is how mad we as a collective society have been of late and how once in a while it’s nice and quite pleasant to walk around the room with a bouquet of make up. After all, from past experiences heavily doused make up is sure to turn to black and blue when the midnight rain (and it has) finally comes.
Now please leave these girls alone and go and get drunk already…
What this saga has brought to my attention is that people need to re-acquaint themselves with the saying “never make fun of a person for things they cannot possibly change.” Someone’s physical features are for the most part out of their control, whereas certain aspects like behavior, etc. are not.
Lets not blur the line between the two. It should never be acceptable to do this no matter what a certain person may or may not have done. It is this distinction that reflects a truly fair and just mind and pure heart.
It is only a matter of time before the truth is revealed on whether or not the Noel family were malefactors or simply inept. Until then, lets continue the discussion but make sure it maintains a level of civility. I say this not for their sake but rather your own.
While those are lovely sentiments for a guidence counselor to tell the popular girls after they pants a fatty, fairness and polite exchange make for a boring site. A for effort, though!
I’d say leave the girls alone as well, if the family hadn’t hired people to get their names out there for their class, good taste, and well breeding. Turns out their family is either stupid or criminal. I guess with their losses and the lack of time before bernie’s arrest they couldn’t buy the PR this time.
Am I jealous? Nope, my daddy looks terrible in orange.
anonymous December 31, 2008 8:18am
Systematically spending ill gotten money solely for the apotheosis of ones own name will engender bad blood on a number of levels. Personally, I could care less what the Noel girls look like, but spending for the sake of ones own glorification is wrong, it is compounded when it is part of a larger systemic fraud. As for “incompetence” on the part of the Noel family and FGG, simply go to the FGG website and read the alleged due dilligence the firm carried out, then read Harry Markopolos’ letter to the SEC in 2005….the two cannot coexist without one being a fraud. The cat is out as to which one was, and, unfortunately for the Noel’s it has them in the spotlight they craved, but for the wrong reasons. They deserve all of the retribution get.
Hoya January 1, 2009 6:41pm
1. The name of the 4 out of 5 sisters paramour has initials SB. He was at Univ. w 2/4 and visited weekends and vacations in Greenwich
2. The coat was White Fox, want pictures?
3. The N sisters VISITED w/ their mother’s family in Rio every year and gave Rio society girls “headaches”, which is why they were referred to as the “Aspirina” sisters, as in CorINA, LisINA, and AlINA
You really have pictures? Send them to our tips mailbox. Ruff!
Hoya January 3, 2009 1:57am
BINGO in case anyone is looking to sue FGG for Fraud - this was found in the marketing materials for the private Swiss bank FGG was buying. Philip Toub was nothing more than a party promoter prior to marrying Alix Noel, and while he may have arranged parties for these institutions, I’m sure that their employee files will show that he never was employed by them… While he lived in Rio marketing FGG, he was to ne found at the golf/country club daily - to the extent that Rio retirees wondered how he had managed to retire so young. Read on—
Philip ToubPartnerA member of the Group’s Executive Committee, Philip Toub is responsible for the development of the Brazilian and Middle-Eastern markets. Thanks to over 15 years of experience in the investment sector at institutions that include Moore Capital, Goldman Sachs, and Bear Stearns & Co, he plays an active role in creat-ing new products and marketing funds
anonymous January 3, 2009 9:24am
“creating new products”….Ha! This firm has to be sued, they represent fraud on a level tantamount to Madoff himself. What alternate reality can one be living in to feel they deserve 250 million a year for doing absolutely nothing other than giving money to a broker dealer (which is all Madoff was until 2006)…crazy. FGG had to be implicitly, if not explicitly involved. On another note, seemed like all of these clowns excelled at attending parties and hanging out at country clubs, i’d like to sign up for one of those jobs, let me know where to apply. I will need the same base salary as the boys, which, by the way was 5 million per annum, before bonus. My, my, my….
TRUTH SAID January 8, 2009 8:05pm
BEWARE: That’s what happens when you put yourself in the limelight…it’s an OPEN INVITATION to the press and public…..regardless. Nouveau riche folks tend to always fall into this trap and learn it the hard way eventually….
Payback January 9, 2009 1:04pm
I heard the girls at Attica like Rio girls……….
“Do you wanna be da husband o da wif?”
ASousiere January 11, 2009 10:38pm
Ugh, the article said four sisters had slept with the same guy. It didn’t say anything about him being in the same college as the sisters. And I’ve seen Marisa wearing fur. Why wouldn’t one of her sisters wear another kind of fur?
If you want to defend the sisters, you really need to try harder.
muhammed atta April 6, 2009 2:00pm
Its so not right in one sense, but “horsefaced” is actually a very good descriptor to describe them…. it really really fits. That plus the vacant eyes gives a window to their soul which tells me they know they are frauds. It is a shame that they are so late in life and will now need to start over, or live life on the run.
Hoya 2 May 15, 2009 3:45pm
Hey Hoya!!! I went to Gtown and knew both Lisina and Arianna. Yes, Lisina DID wear a fur coat. However, I don’t know who SB is. I know that Lisina dated MA but I didn’t know Arianna that well so I have no idea who she dated.
Anonymous June 1, 2009 12:53am
Hey Hoya 2 - Massimo A was the official beau, but she cheated right left and center
Small Spender July 6, 2009 12:03pm
Whatever..
You know what they say about tall trees in storms..
hoya July 11, 2009 3:40am
OK Hoya 2 and anonymous, Yes Massimo A was the official neai but she craved Manny S (not a Hoya but an Eagle) and definitely partook of SB, who used to brag about his working his way down the list, but has since redeemed himself so let’s leave him alone. And Manny S was TERRIFIED once he found out about Massimo A so Lisina stalked him.
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December 29, 2008 11:03am
what the f is a social spotlight? you mean YOUR social spotlight. get a grip.
and those girls are nasty looking.
White mink coat? I’ve always wondered how I’d look in one?
Am I to confer that they are no longer fashionable.
And yes the world can be a mean place, especially if you had the bad grace to be caught up with Bernie Madoff.
I wonder how Bernie would look in a white mink coat?
Oops I think he’s going to be wearing and orange jumpsuit…now I’m sure that’s the real social faux pas…
omg u guyz marisa SO did not play mouthknuckles under the bleachers after homecoming! like for realz u guyz need to get a life!!!111
Seriously, be adults and let them defend themselves. I’m sure they don’t need or want you folks getting their back on teh intarwebs.
December 29, 2008 12:08pm
Hmmmm…aren’t the Noel’s the ones that hired PR firms to get stories like this in the press? Live big on other peoples money…lose big when others lose their hard earned money because Daddy Noel and the sons in law cannot decipher FRAUD. Get a grip girlie. Bet you’d think different if it was your retirement.
ps everytime I see Ariane Noel I think it’s Lizzie Grubman.
December 29, 2008 2:04pm
How do you know she didn’t wear a coat?
December 29, 2008 4:07pm
Why should people lay off thes Noel girls when they have lived (and will probably continue to live) a luxurious life built on ill-gotten gains?
December 29, 2008 4:12pm
Those girls, more like women past their prime, are NOT attractive.
December 29, 2008 5:10pm
The Noel clan have bigger problems to be concerned with than media scrutiny and castigation. Their father bilked Colombian investors out of millions! If I were them:
1) I’d be in a plastic surgeons chair immediately
3) I’d shut off all contact with family and friends and move to a 3rd world country
2) I’d carry a loaded gun everywhere I went
December 29, 2008 5:26pm
Nossa! You think Cariocas would have to be beaten away with a stick because of these two cavalas? More like Cariocas would beat them with a stick! On a positive note…they do have good teeth.
I think Rachelle’s point is simple. The girls were not involved with Madoff, it was their husbands and father Walter Noel. No one is saying they are above press coverage, but whatever coverage they receive should be above board so to speak.
there should also be more rainbows, kittens should never grow up, and vodka should make me look younger. this family is not backward about being forward. they’ve spent years making sure people talk about them. it’s too late to start dictating what the public is allowed to say at this point.
December 29, 2008 7:04pm
“the girls were not involved”–are you out of their mind…first, four of their husbands–carefully recruited by the girls–worked at and are partners in FGG, and they (the wives) jet setted around the world and were complicit with if not directly involved with the scam….they sought the spotlight, basked in it, and are now getting their just desserts. I hope to see them on the cover of a hamptons magazine living in an Amana refrigirator box, which, by the way, is better than they deserve. Phony, pretentiois, theiving, criminal scum. They have stolen every dollar they have…I hope they rot.
December 29, 2008 7:14pm
Get real - these horsefaced tramps spent a small fortune w/ PR flacks so people would talk. They participated in a fraud of horrific scale. They gloried in the high life, stealing from widows and orphans.
December 29, 2008 7:15pm
I heard they can suck the paint off a fire hydrant
Again we should avoid calling them “horsefaced” or referring to physical features…
I think Rachelle is correct in wanting to stick to the facts, and not degenerate into attacks on physical features or baseless rumors regarding their dating lives, etc.
FYI, Gofg is by no means apologists for the sisters, we have covered the family quite in depth.
But I think we can all agree that kittens shouldn’t grow up. kittens? great stuff right?
December 29, 2008 7:32pm
Fact,they benefitted directly from the theft and fraud conducted by their husbands, fathers, and possibly themselves. Fact, their wealth is ill-gotten, and their conduct, criminal. They are the epitome of greed and arrogance on a massive scale. They deserve to go broke, to jail, and to somewhere else…Fact, they make me sick to my stomach.
they LOVED the attention. hired a publicist to brag and gloat about money that wasn’t their own. have they worked a day in their lives? no ladies, charity work for your own exposure (pics on style.com, VF, etc.)doesn’t count. oh no someone judged a photo that you worked so hard for everyone to see!! boo hoo hoo someone called a noel sister horse faced!! i dont even want to think about how ugly this family is on the inside, even before the scandal broke. let’s focus our attention on people who truly deserve sympathy. not this tacky tacky family.
December 29, 2008 11:14pm
i think defending the sisters is unacceptable as if they didn’t know what was going on. it’s sick that they are living it up while others have lost everything they’ve worked their entire life for
1) These girls are not attractive. You can ride them with a saddle and lose equestrian awards on them.
2) Too many here have no clue. The girls are not criminal, just benefited from wealth. If you gave their father’s firm the opportunity to “not be screwed out of $7.5 billion” versus being screwed out of it, well which do you think they would prefer?
3) Learn the details of the fraud before displaying ones own jealousy or envy of wealthy people, otherwise you cannot possibly correctly place blame.
4) The blame should be placed on Madoff mostly, and on any firm that did not do due diligence in referring money to Madoff. Obviously tons of people fell into that category. Not criminals themselves, per se, just stupid or lacking attention to detail. Like Spielberg or various large banks.
Sucks to be them.
December 30, 2008 9:12am
“…but fall more into the category of having to beat Cariocas away with a stick.”
^ Damn. Are dudes in Brazil that hard up? Highly dubious…
December 30, 2008 10:17am
The Noel sisters will be turned into $50 whores by the time this is over. Investors will have to be made whole. Daddy Noel was Madoff’s bagman. The Noel girls social climbing lifestyle was subsidized by theft and they will learn the hard way that crime doesn’t pay!!!
December 30, 2008 10:36am
I highly doubt the face of the girl on the left is real. I have never seen that elongated a face on a human in my entire life. It is a total caricature, perhaps even prohibited by the laws of physics. I suspect photoshop.
December 30, 2008 12:13pm
we all know stanley is not a real person, so why use a fake name to defend your position?? it doesn’t make you sound more credible…
Live by the sword, die by the sword, except when you don’t feel like it.
SO the p.r. game turned within itself, capriciousness, fraud, and lack of clarity (on all sides) exposed everyone.
Horse faces, little kitty cats and vodka shots, all sadly true but I wonder if what’s important here is how mad we as a collective society have been of late and how once in a while it’s nice and quite pleasant to walk around the room with a bouquet of make up. After all, from past experiences heavily doused make up is sure to turn to black and blue when the midnight rain (and it has) finally comes.
Now please leave these girls alone and go and get drunk already…
get drunk and hug a puppy. happy new year
December 30, 2008 8:31pm
What this saga has brought to my attention is that people need to re-acquaint themselves with the saying “never make fun of a person for things they cannot possibly change.” Someone’s physical features are for the most part out of their control, whereas certain aspects like behavior, etc. are not.
Lets not blur the line between the two. It should never be acceptable to do this no matter what a certain person may or may not have done. It is this distinction that reflects a truly fair and just mind and pure heart.
It is only a matter of time before the truth is revealed on whether or not the Noel family were malefactors or simply inept. Until then, lets continue the discussion but make sure it maintains a level of civility. I say this not for their sake but rather your own.
While those are lovely sentiments for a guidence counselor to tell the popular girls after they pants a fatty, fairness and polite exchange make for a boring site. A for effort, though!
Ruff!
December 30, 2008 11:20pm
I’d say leave the girls alone as well, if the family hadn’t hired people to get their names out there for their class, good taste, and well breeding. Turns out their family is either stupid or criminal. I guess with their losses and the lack of time before bernie’s arrest they couldn’t buy the PR this time.
Am I jealous? Nope, my daddy looks terrible in orange.
December 31, 2008 8:18am
Systematically spending ill gotten money solely for the apotheosis of ones own name will engender bad blood on a number of levels. Personally, I could care less what the Noel girls look like, but spending for the sake of ones own glorification is wrong, it is compounded when it is part of a larger systemic fraud. As for “incompetence” on the part of the Noel family and FGG, simply go to the FGG website and read the alleged due dilligence the firm carried out, then read Harry Markopolos’ letter to the SEC in 2005….the two cannot coexist without one being a fraud. The cat is out as to which one was, and, unfortunately for the Noel’s it has them in the spotlight they craved, but for the wrong reasons. They deserve all of the retribution get.
January 1, 2009 6:41pm
1. The name of the 4 out of 5 sisters paramour has initials SB. He was at Univ. w 2/4 and visited weekends and vacations in Greenwich
2. The coat was White Fox, want pictures?
3. The N sisters VISITED w/ their mother’s family in Rio every year and gave Rio society girls “headaches”, which is why they were referred to as the “Aspirina” sisters, as in CorINA, LisINA, and AlINA
oh snap
You really have pictures? Send them to our tips mailbox. Ruff!
January 3, 2009 1:57am
BINGO in case anyone is looking to sue FGG for Fraud - this was found in the marketing materials for the private Swiss bank FGG was buying. Philip Toub was nothing more than a party promoter prior to marrying Alix Noel, and while he may have arranged parties for these institutions, I’m sure that their employee files will show that he never was employed by them… While he lived in Rio marketing FGG, he was to ne found at the golf/country club daily - to the extent that Rio retirees wondered how he had managed to retire so young. Read on—
Philip ToubPartnerA member of the Group’s Executive Committee, Philip Toub is responsible for the development of the Brazilian and Middle-Eastern markets. Thanks to over 15 years of experience in the investment sector at institutions that include Moore Capital, Goldman Sachs, and Bear Stearns & Co, he plays an active role in creat-ing new products and marketing funds
January 3, 2009 9:24am
“creating new products”….Ha! This firm has to be sued, they represent fraud on a level tantamount to Madoff himself. What alternate reality can one be living in to feel they deserve 250 million a year for doing absolutely nothing other than giving money to a broker dealer (which is all Madoff was until 2006)…crazy. FGG had to be implicitly, if not explicitly involved. On another note, seemed like all of these clowns excelled at attending parties and hanging out at country clubs, i’d like to sign up for one of those jobs, let me know where to apply. I will need the same base salary as the boys, which, by the way was 5 million per annum, before bonus. My, my, my….
January 8, 2009 8:05pm
BEWARE: That’s what happens when you put yourself in the limelight…it’s an OPEN INVITATION to the press and public…..regardless. Nouveau riche folks tend to always fall into this trap and learn it the hard way eventually….
January 9, 2009 1:04pm
I heard the girls at Attica like Rio girls……….
“Do you wanna be da husband o da wif?”
January 11, 2009 10:38pm
Ugh, the article said four sisters had slept with the same guy. It didn’t say anything about him being in the same college as the sisters. And I’ve seen Marisa wearing fur. Why wouldn’t one of her sisters wear another kind of fur?
If you want to defend the sisters, you really need to try harder.
April 6, 2009 2:00pm
Its so not right in one sense, but “horsefaced” is actually a very good descriptor to describe them…. it really really fits. That plus the vacant eyes gives a window to their soul which tells me they know they are frauds. It is a shame that they are so late in life and will now need to start over, or live life on the run.
May 15, 2009 3:45pm
Hey Hoya!!! I went to Gtown and knew both Lisina and Arianna. Yes, Lisina DID wear a fur coat. However, I don’t know who SB is. I know that Lisina dated MA but I didn’t know Arianna that well so I have no idea who she dated.
June 1, 2009 12:53am
Hey Hoya 2 - Massimo A was the official beau, but she cheated right left and center
July 6, 2009 12:03pm
Whatever..
You know what they say about tall trees in storms..
July 11, 2009 3:40am
OK Hoya 2 and anonymous, Yes Massimo A was the official neai but she craved Manny S (not a Hoya but an Eagle) and definitely partook of SB, who used to brag about his working his way down the list, but has since redeemed himself so let’s leave him alone. And Manny S was TERRIFIED once he found out about Massimo A so Lisina stalked him.