De Niro's Double Strikes Again

Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2001 at 10:55 AM Central

by Heather Koehler

Bad-boy Robert DeNiro has a lookalike who is taking his one claim to fame way too far. Joseph Manuella, who was recently arrested for posing as Bobby to get women into bed with him is now facing more charges for impersonating the star.

The conman convinced Julius Leonard, a veteran and owner of a veteran's musuem, to round up a group of American veterans to build a set for his "upcoming movie." the group of men worked on the project for nearly six months until the police caught up with Manuella. The set was a base camp for a fictitious war movie, complete with barracks, underground tunnels, tanks and barbed wire.

This is definitely the end to Joe's 15 Minutes of fame...