‘Sopranos’ star Drea de Matteo caught carrying brass knuckles in Paris on way to OnlyFans show, ‘they didn’t find the knives’
Drea de Matteo had a run-in with the law on her way to the runway!
“The Sopranos” star got deeper into bed with OnlyFans at London Fashion Week — but she had a delay on the way to appear in a collab with the platform when she was stopped by Paris police.
De Matteo appeared in the collaboration between designer Natasha Zinko and OnlyFans, which continues to make inroads in the worlds of edgy haute couture and merch. Page Six Hollywood caught up with the Emmy winner, who famously joined the creator-led giant to stave off foreclosure on her home after becoming a Covid-era pariah due to her un-vaxxed status.
Ahead of the show, de Matteo made a quick pit stop in Paris — where the renegade actress best known for playing the tragic Adriana La Cerva on “The Sopranos” ran afoul of authorities for packing brass knuckles.
“I got detained in customs. They brought me up to a nice little jail cell area,” she says. “But if you were to get semi-arrested or detained anywhere in the world, I’d have to say that Paris is the place to do it because they were lovely. They were actually very apologetic because they felt like it was ridiculous. They had to do it. It’s the law. But they didn’t catch any of the knives in the bags, which was even more f–king insane.”
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The show, which also featured Kelly Osbourne on the catwalk, marked OnlyFans’ debut at London Fashion Week. (The company has already made a showing at Paris and New York Fashion Week.)
Naturally, de Matteo appeared on “OnlyFans Fashion Files,” hosted by former “Real Housewives of New York” Leah McSweeney.
“Leah is my friend and how I got involved in this. All these extra cool designers are collab-ing with OF because I think it represents independence and freedom. And Leah was like, ‘Well, Drea’s perfect for this because she’s all about independence and her freedom,’” de Matteo explains. “‘She should walk in the fashion show and be here with us.’ So, that’s how I ended up here.”
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De Matteo didn’t merely walk in the show. The way she describes it, she also sat provocatively in a chair smoking a cigarette as a small peephole opened. Zinko’s 18-piece capsule collection was aptly titled “Pay Per View.”
“It speaks to the whole OnlyFans immensely, but it also speaks to how society is right now with their social media and everyone’s controlling their own narratives all day long and then selling it and making a buck off of it,” she says. “And that is the world we’re living in right now, and OnlyFans takes that to the next level, obviously.”
Fashion and the multibillion platform are a natural fit, says de Matteo.
“Fashion designers are real free thinkers, independent artists, always bending the rules,” she says. “OnlyFans speaks to that. It’s the ultimate freedom.”
OnlyFans has also afforded de Matteo enough financial freedom that she is willing to re-enter the acting fray after a five-year hiatus.
“I just did a TV show that I can talk about a little bit with everyone’s favorite mom,” she says. “I can’t say who it is. Me as her daughter. It’s extremely wild. And then I just did a movie with [John] Travolta, which was really, really fun. I’m ready, but it’s gotta be the right stuff. It can’t just be bulls–t.”
Still, de Matteo has no plans to quit OnlyFans. The company is in a transition following the unexpected death of billionaire owner Leonid Radvinsky in March. Before his death, Radvinsky was in talks to sell the platform that generated $1.4 billion in revenue in 2024. But it appears that the company is staying in the hands of his family. At least for now.
De Matteo hasn’t given much thought to who, if anyone, would be her preferred steward. She says things are running as smooth as ever. “I don’t know enough about the business of it,” she notes. “I only know about the business of it when I get my 80%.”