Adriana La Cerva

Adriana La Cerva, played by Drea de Matteo, is the long-time girlfriend and, later, fiancée of Tony Soprano's right-hand man, Christopher Moltisanti, on the fictional HBO TV series, The Sopranos.

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Drea de Matteo - Tony Soprano - Christopher Moltisanti - Fictional - HBO - TV - The Sopranos

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Adriana was initially portrayed as shallow and materialistic, interested in the things that Christopher's money could buy: expensive cars, jewelry, designer clothing and furs. However, as the couple became closer, she always seemed to have Christopher's best interests (as well as hers) in mind. She was very ambitious and wanted to have a business of her own. She was eventually set up as the manager of Christopher's Crazy Horse club in Long Branch, which became quite successful.

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The FBI had been targeting Adriana as a potential weakness in the family's organization. Upon the death of Sal "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero, the FBI looked to Adriana as a close relation to a rising star in the crime family and sent Special Agent Deborah Ciccerone to befriend her. The tactic backfired, but the FBI were able to learn of Christopher's heroin problem, which they knew would enrage Tony Soprano.

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FBI - Sal "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero - Heroin

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Adriana, loyal to Christopher and his family, avoided giving up any serious information on the family and did her best to avoid the Soprano family house in order to have nothing to give back to the Feds. Her deception caught up with her after the FBI learned of her involvement in a murder and threatened to press charges against her unless she offered full cooperation. She chose to reveal the truth to Christopher, hoping they could run away together and start new lives. Christopher's loyalty to his crime family turned out to be greater than his love for her as he revealed Adriana's status as an informant to Tony Soprano. Tony had Silvio Dante, under the pretense that he was taking her to Christopher, execute her

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Some Sopranos fans have argued that Adriana might not, in fact, have been killed. The primary reasoning for this was that her death was not actually seen, which was unique in the course of the series—the camera panned upward, away from Silvio and the crawling Adriana, before two gunshots are heard. De Matteo is also reportedly under contract to appear in the sixth and final season. However, in her audio commentary on the fifth season DVD, de Matteo confirmed that Adriana is indeed deceased. The show's frequent use of dream imagery in which Tony Soprano has been confronted by the dead may explain why de Matteo may still be contractually obliged to appear in the final season.

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