"Princesses: Long Island" continued to stir up trouble, this time offending the family of a firefighter who died in the 9/11 attacks. In the June 30 episode, Amanda Bertoncini had a photo shoot for her product, The Drink Hanky (fabric that wraps around drinks), at a park in Great Neck, New York where the Jonathan Ielpi Memorial Park is located. During the shoot (above), Amanda told the model joining her to hang off an FDNY memorial statue of Ielpi and put a beer bottle up to its mouth. Melissa Ielpi-Brengel, sister to the fallen firefighter, was outraged. "Pretending I’m drinking with this man who was killed, it may not be against the law to do it, but it is the most disrespectful and...
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