De Niro Double Arrested For Scamming Women

Posted Monday, November 19, 2001 at 12:45 PM Central

by Heather Koehler

He used to make his living as a stunt double for Robert De Niro but now Joseph Manuella is paying for his impersonating.

The sleazy actor was caught posing as Bobby in order to get women into bed with him. Bobby found out after he read a newspaper article where a woman claimed she slept with the star. His camp tracked her down and discovered Manuella had been "practicing" playing De Niro.

Authorities found and arrested the lookalike. "Bobby was outraged that someone was taking advantage of people, pretending to be him. It has got progressively worse and he has grown more and more annoyed. This is the final straw," said his attorney Tom Harvey.

Manuella might have thought it was The Score, but Bobby shot down those Great Expectations.