When Gianquinto was arrested, he seemed to be living like a pauper, far from the high-roller life that he boasted about on the Jersey shore. He had a New York state food coupon and a state benefit card, indicating that he was on public assistance.
Sally Osgood, owner of a flower shop in Cranford, N.J., said Gianquinto was a regular customer who once bought flowers for rock star Jon Bon Jovi and who would sometimes pull cash from a blue bag. "He would carry so much cash that I would say to him, as a mother would say to a child: 'You really should not carry that much cash. Somebody is going to bop you in the head,' " Osgood said.
Eventually, Osgood said, Gianquinto ran out of money. He purchased flowers on credit and hasn't paid all his bills, she said.
The Mazzantis said they noticed that Gianquinto seemed obsessed with appearing youthful. "He loved surf and beach clothes. He liked to dress like a younger person. He looked like a beach boy," Guy Mazzanti said. "Every day, he would dress in a Hawaiian shirt and a blue cap and blue sunglasses and go to the beach. He was very tanned."
Toward the end of his stay at the apartment, Guy Mazzanti said, Gianquinto befriended five Russian students who were living in one of the apartments. The Russians eventually moved but kept spending a lot of time with Gianquinto, prompting the Mazzantis to ask him if he was putting them up. The relationship with their tenant soured after that, they said.
Toward the end of his stay at the apartment, Guy Mazzanti said, Gianquinto befriended five Russian students who were living in one of the apartments. The Russians eventually moved but kept spending a lot of time with Gianquinto, prompting the Mazzantis to ask him if he was putting them up. The relationship with their tenant soured after that, they said.
Before he moved out, Gianquinto stole the kitchen table and curtain rods, among other items, Guy Mazzanti said. He sprayed black paint on a wall, ripped the thermostat off the wall and apparently used a box cutter to carve up the linoleum flooring in the kitchen and bathroom, the landlord said.
At the Windjammer Motor Inn in Seaside Park, the owners said Gianquinto had stayed at the motel off and on for about a week at a time during the last year or so, always during the off-season.
Local police visited the Windjammer and took one of Gianquinto's registration cards and information about a credit card he had used to pay for rooms and other hotel charges, including large telephone bills, said the motel's general manager, Joseph DeFilippis.
DeFilippis said Gianquinto was polite, neat and private. He also offered to give DeFilippis concert tickets and said that if he ever wanted to meet Bruce Springsteen, he could arrange it because he was "great friends" with the rock star, DeFilippis said.
"He told me he had access to concert tickets and that he could get them for me. He asked me if I wanted to go to Britney Spears last year in Philadelphia. He asked me if I needed tickets," DeFilippis said.
He said he had declined Gianquinto's offers.
In even more Stones news, two men posing as members of the Rolling Stones' entourage have been charged with scheming to defraud, criminal possession of stolen property and criminal impersonation after securing free stuff in the guise of being with the band. Peter Giaquinto, 48, and Jaime Reyes, 22, used stolen credit cards to scam people into providing free meals and rooms, concert tickets and limo rides. Prosecutors say that Giaquinto has previously pretended to be an associate of comedian/actor Robin Williams.