A Hollywood movie producer whose next project is a Reese Witherspoon flick called “Gangsta Bitches” may be one herself.
Award-winning Paramount Pictures veep and producer Pamela Abdy has been identified as the girlfriend of a married New Jersey mobster nabbed this week on charges he helped run a multibillion-dollar illegal gambling ring with ties to the Bloods gang, court documents show.
Abdy – whose credits include “Garden State,” “Babel,” “World Trade Center” and “Freedom Writers” – was captured on wiretaps talking with her beau, reputed Luchese made man Joseph Perna, just minutes before she headed to a June movie screening, according to New Jersey authorities.
During their conversation, Abdy, who investigators said had a “personal dating relationship” with Perna, discusses their jobs, likening some film business execs to “made guys.”
Perna also tells his paramour how much he cares about her, and says he felt “very disrespected” one day when, during a rendezvous with Abdy, other men looked at her.
“I had to be focused today,” Perna tells Abdy, “and I f- – -ing didn’t get it done.”
The conversations took place shortly after Perna had tried to collect a $105,738 gambling debt – and whined to Abdy that he’d gotten only $25,000.
Perna lives with his wife, Rosanna, in homes in Wyckoff and Toms River, NJ
The conversations were part of an arrest affidavit that preceded New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgrim’s roundup Tuesday of Perna, 38, and more than two dozen other reputed Luchese associates and members.
Abdy’s uncle, former Luchese Jersey boss Martin Taccetta, 58, was also arrested, as were Perna’s two brothers and his father, reputed capo Ralph Perna.
The group was charged with running a gambling ring that raked in $2.2 billion in 15 months and used violent tactics to collect gaming debts.
Members of the group were also accused of striking up an “alarming alliance” with members of the Bloods to smuggle cellphones, iPods and drugs into East Jersey State Prison in Woodbridge.
During the taped conversations, Perna gave specific examples of the differences between his line of work and his girlfriend’s, noting that in the movie biz, there’s “no gun and there’s no sword,” and they “don’t prick the finger” – both describing established traditions of a Mafia induction ceremony.
Abdy responded her business “is worse.”
“Let me tell you,” she said. “There’s something called the press. And people kill you in the press.”
Abdy is currently executive vice president of production. She did not respond to messages left with assistants at her Los Angeles office.