Danny Provenzano has spent decades pushing an alleged “mafia” image, but the former Real Housewives of New Jersey associate is now on the other side of a debt-collection fight. Newly filed federal court documents show Provenzano was personally served by a Bergen County sheriff's deputy last month as his ex-girlfriend Patricia O'Neil continues pursuing a $222,978 judgment she won against him following allegations of assault, harassment, and defamation.

O'Neil told the Southern District of New York on Nov. 4 that Provenzano had avoided service and threatened her representatives "for a period of five years since the judgment has been finalized."

According to O’Neil’s filing, authorities finally caught up with him on Oct. 7 while he was working on an alleged documentary project at Goodfellas Restaurant in Garfield, New Jersey.…