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Michael Di Paolo

Michael Di Paolo

Michael Di Paolo (Sr.) is co-owner of DiPaolo's Ristorante Italiano in Penns Grove, New Jersey, a family-run South Jersey restaurant known for traditional Abruzzese Italian cuisine.

Aug 31, 2026

8:28
Yeah.
8:28
So, uh, we then, uh, kind of like fast forward, like 30 years now, the year, like say 1997 and Bruce Willis, uh, who was from Pensgrove, decided to buy property down here, and he wanted to develop the riverfront.
8:53
And so people were coming from out of the area, New York, Pennsylvania, and they were buying property.
9:00
And I had this one building alongside our pizzeria and deli, and it was vacant, and A realtor came by and said, Mike, why don't you buy that? Because Bruce Willis is in the area and people are buying property left and right.
9:19
And that way you won't be boxed in.
9:22
So I said, OK.
9:23
I said, well, what am I going to do with it? And she says, I don't know.

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31:41
And he would

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