Joseph Gannascoli plays Vito Spatafore on the Sorpranos and once praised Stacker 2 for helping him shed 140 pounds.  Gannascoli and the makers of Stacker 2 aren’t the best of friends anymore. NVE Pharmaceuticals, the maker of the Stacker 2 diet pill, filed a lawsuit in New Jersey on Thursday against Gannascoli.  NVE is accusing him of not doing enough to promote the diet-pill after receiving $316,000 over the last 2 1/2 years.

Gannascoli character on The Soprano’s was a closet gay mobster.  Gannascoli accuses the makers of the diet-drug of hating homosexuals.  He said to the New York Post that NVE stopped wanting to use him after his character was outed. “That was their problem. They were anti-gay,” Gannascoli told The Post. The diet company spoke out today in the New York Post…The president of NVE, Robert Occhifinto, strongly disagreed. He said the lawsuit had “nothing to do with the gay role,” but was launched because Gannascoli was so difficult to work with before he was ever outed on the show.

Gannascoli’s character was recently whacked on the show for being gay.

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