At 15, it was hard for Oksana Marafioti to adjust to American life and find normalcy while her family dabbled in ghost hunting, conducted seances and owned a psychic shop in the middle of Hollywood.

When Lynbrook gymnastics named the team’s first-ever captains this winter, there were few more obvious picks than the athletes responsible for the program’s existence. Meet junior Gianna Marafioti and ...

Oksana Marafioti explained that for many people, writing a memoir is a form of revenge. Or at least it can begin that way. Her first version of "American Gypsy" started like that, a memoir of her ...

Oksana Marafioti’s family moved to the United States from the Soviet Union when she was 15 years old, settling in LA. But Marafioti isn’t your usual immigrant; she is also Gypsy, a race of people ...

Author Oksana Marafioti's new memoir, American Gypsy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), is two success stories in one: one of an immigrant making her way in America, the other of a Gypsy. At 15, Marafioti ...

A 33-year-old poker pro died last week after he allegedly jumped off the 28th floor of a New Jersey high-rise. According to a report from the Daily Voice, Matt Marafioti dove off the balcony of his ...