Talk:Vincent D'Onofrio

message: is it me or does he and stephen dorff look similar? like they could be brothers. I just find it interesting.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.194.148.155 (talk) 17:37, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  (Dorff resemblance) 

message: :Rumors circulated that D'Onofrio had collapsed due to learning that George W. Bush won the election. As D'Onofrio later explained, it was his 16 hour days filming Law and Order: Criminal Intent coupled with the filming of his short film, Five Minutes, Mr. Welles as the reason for his exhaustion.http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/story/donofrio-laughs-off-collapse-story
The link is dead, and it's a raw link, with no author, title, date, publisher, etc. citation information.  Therefore I have removed it until someone can locate an article that affirms both the rumor and his explanation. hbdragon88 (talk) 23:57, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reason for collapse 

message: In the article's summary of personal information (upper right), Greta Scacchi is described as his first spouse. 
Under the section Personal life it states (referring to D'Onofrio and Scacchi): "The couple were in a relationship from 1991 until 1993."
Meanwhile, the Wikipedia article on Scacchi says: "A marriage to American actor Vincent D'Onofrio (1989–1993) produced a daughter Leila (born March 1992)."
Someone knowledgeable about this situation needs to straighten out the inconsistency between a "relationship from 1991 until 1993" and a "marriage . . . (1983-1993)".
By the way, the passage from the article on Greta Scacchi includes a source for the marriage information.Daqu (talk) 14:20, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  First marriage described contradictorily 

message: Didn't D'Onofrio play a role in Weinergate in June 2011 when he coaxed Andrew Breitbart while they were both guests on Opie & Anthony to leak the first picture of Anthony Weiner's erect penis on-air? http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/06/how_vincent_donofrio_is_to_bla.html Cowbert (talk) 12:17, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Role in Weinergate? 

message: There has been past discussion (Talk:Vincent_D'Onofrio/Archive2#Marital_Status) and it needs to be sorted out to match current and previous sources.
We have another series of edits about D'Onofrio's second marriage (or first, or second, third...), feel free to add refs to these lists:
;Scacchi
*Never married:
#This much I know: Greta Scacchi, actor, 48, Sussex. Interview by Hephzibah Anderson The Observer, 20 July 2008 "I've never been married and I don't think I'll ever get married." and "Only recently have I realised that that cynicism might have put the dampers on my finding the right sort of situation for marriage."(obviously same source as next one ...)
#Greta Scacchi: 'I'm done with taking off my clothes on screen', No interviewer or writer credited, The Telegraph, 25 Jul 2008 "She had a four-year relationship with the American actor, Vincent D'Onofrio ... D'Onofrio changed his mind about family life and walked away." and "Though she calls Carlo her husband, they are not married. 'I learnt in my early teens that if you got married, as my parents did, then you'd have to get divorced and that was a huge rigmarole'." and "Only recently have I realised that cynicism might have put the dampers on my finding the right sort of situation for marriage."
*Married, divorced:
#Greta Scacchi: glad to be back, interview with Marianne Macdonald, The Telegraph, 28 September 2008 "1991, the year she met and married her now ex-husband, Vincent D'Onofrio"
#Criminal Intent's Vincent D'Onofrio Welcomes a Son, People magazine, 21 February 2008 "D'Onofrio also has a teenage daughter, Leila, from his previous marriage to actress Greta Scacchi." & "Leila George, with his ex-wife, GretaScacchi." (15 October 2007)
#"married Greta Scacchi (an actress), 1991 (divorced 1993)" Encyclopedia.com owned by HighBeam Research
;van der Donk
There have been conflicting statements from D'Onofrio himself, some saying he was divorced, some saying he remarried, some saying he never divorced and has been married for 16 years to her:
*Divorced, remarried:
*Separated, not divorced:
*Not divorced: "IMDB ... they still have us as not being married, there's some thing about us getting divorced or something its ridiculous, i'm married to my wife almost sixteen years now" interview for blogtalkradio.com at time-stamp 15:10 (13 Jan 2012)
Chaosdruid (talk) 03:08, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marriages 

message: All good then if she's contacted the site. (and the records ARE/WERE available, although that's not important. And we all know that he has used the word divorce in interviews... but again not important - just making sure people don't think I'm making this stuff up. I obviously had no way of knowing that she had clarified things). In that case, I will not add anything about the divorce again, and will return to to the version Van der donk would have been happy with (relationship/separated). However I do want to edit other areas of the wiki - but will wait until I'm sure that it wont simply be undone.
::==Reply==
::The thing is, I don't doubt that someone else will come along in a few days and change it again. It's just the way it is. 
::Vincent doesn't have a publicist because he's said he doesn't really care much for what's said/debated about him on the Internet. It was his wife's issue that the information wasn't accurate. If he did have a publicist, there might not be so much speculation about his current marriage. 
::As for his relationship with Greta. I've never seen either one of them refer to each other as "ex-" or use the "d" word, rather it's implied in the articles by the interviewer, but never seen it quoted from either of them. The only quote I've ever found is from Greta in this article http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2008/jul/20/15 in which she says "I've never been married and I don't think I'll ever get married."
::Vdofan (talk) 00:11, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Response

message: I have noticed that the page hasnt been updated since the refs were removed so I have gone ahead and sourced new references to add. In these, donofrio not only says that he was married/divorced from Scacchi, but also van der Donk. I don't know his reasoning for wanting to make people believe otherwise, but the sources are definitely there and at one point or another he was happy to discuss them. In fact his divorce details are available to the public on the NYstate records site as has been discovered by fans in the past.
In addition to this, Ive cleaned up some of the reference list (adding quotes/titles instead of raw links) and have changed 'lives in gramercy park in the east village' to the more accurate 'gramercy in manhattan' as the area discussed is only in the gramercy neighborhood (not gramercy park itself) and this area is not actually in the east village!! the first link was also outdated, from 2008, so Ive removed that but kept the more recent one. Hopefully this is all ok. Im not aware of any reason not to edit it.
Vincentfan1972 17:39, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Added References

message: This reference http://www.nypost.com/seven/12012006/gossip/pagesix/sightings_page was provided by Cvanderdonk (Vincent's wife) back in December of 2006 as proof of the marriage still being intact. However, the posting is no longer available to be seen on their website.
I was able to find though, that this is what had been there: "VINCENT D'Onofrio ("Law & Order: Criminal Intent") at the Marni store on Mercer Street buying Christmas gifts for his wife, Carin van der Donk . . . " 
 
I got it from this website: http://entertainment.uk.myway.com/celebgossip/pgsix/id/12_01_2006_9.html (Not a fan site or blog)
You'll see that the date in the NY Post link "12012006" is the same in the uk.myway.com "12_01_2006". Also, "pgsix" is included in the address and the logo for the NY Post is also in the header on this new site. There's also this, © copyright 2005 The New York Post
Vdofan (talk) 05:44, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The Wayback Machine has an entry, though somewhat shorter as NYT sells their archive access ... it will at least show that the text came from there  Chaosdruid (talk) 11:50, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Acceptable Reference? 

message: Gennaro "Gene" D'onofrio was my high school drama teacher at Gill/St. Bernard's school in New Jersey in 1989. According to the recent WTF podcast with Marc Maron, Vincent describes his father as a "community theater actor/director" and just generally involved in community theater.  
http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1008-vincent-donofrio (Vincent discusses his father at around 30:00).
I also know that he is a founding member of the RiverRun International Film Festival in North Carolina since North Carolina which is mentioned on the page.
Now when I google my old teacher, he is described as an "interior designer". The only source I can find for that claim is here on Wikipedia, but there are no citations. I haven't seen him in 30 years, but this is surprising, just knowing what I know of the man. The way it is written now is complicated because it combines the names and occupations of his parents (with the use of respectively) but according to the  podcast linked above they were divorced when Vincent was very young. 
This definitely needs to be edited some. Even if his father was an interior designer, I don't think that would be particularly notable for this page, but Vincent growing up with a theater director father is notable. Anyway, it is a bit of a mess. I'm hesitant to change anything because I'm just a bit overwhelmed and confused. I'm also thinking I might be biased because of my personal relationship with Mr. D. So this is a request for an edit from someone else. Please bear in mind that the WTF pod source will be hidden behind a paywall after a couple of months. 
Here is a twitter bio listing Gene as director of RRFF. https://twitter.com/genedonofrio
Here is a history page for RRFF that claims it was founded by "Vincent and Gennaro D'onofrio."  https://riverrunfilm.com/history/
I hope this helps. Kire1975 (talk) 10:46, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Parent's Occupations

message: In this video, Vincent D'onofrio is asked about his advocacy regarding autism, and he mentions being dyslexic, and mentions autism being common in his family, and that he believes he's autistic. I am not sure about the appropriate way to integrate this into the article, but it seems very relevant and like it should be referenced within the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvI6pMyAMHk&t=65s Theedgeofoblivious (talk) 03:24, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Autism and Dyslexia