Page Six obtained exclusive photos showing Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini together at Tribeca Tavern in New York City on March 11, 2020, and an eyewitness said the two were kissing and “all over each other” while they sat at the bar near midnight. The source said Vrabel had a ring on, Russini’s legs were between his, and the pair stayed for at least an hour in what the witness described as an otherwise empty room where “nobody knew who they were.”
The photos landed as Vrabel, then the head coach of the Tennessee Titans, was already trying to manage a personal crisis that would soon spill into the open. Russini was working as an NFL reporter at and had posted a photo of herself in ’s New York studio with Laura Rutledge hours before the bar outing.
Vrabel was married to Jen at the time, and both he and his wife have two children. Russini later married Shake Shack executive Kevin Goldschmidt six months afterward and now has two kids with him. On Wednesday afternoon, Page Six contacted both Vrabel and Russini about the photos, and later that day Vrabel told he would miss Day 3 of the NFL draft to enter counseling.
He said he had promised his family, his organization and his team that he would give them the best version of himself, and that he had committed to seeking counseling starting that weekend. Vrabel added that he had always wanted to lead by example and believed it was what he had to do to be the best husband, father and coach he could be. He called it difficult to admit, but said it would make him a better person.
The New England Patriots then said Thursday that they fully supported Vrabel’s decision to prioritize his family first and his own well-being. The team said it was confident in the leadership and communication he had established with its personnel staff through the pre-draft process, and that Eliot Wolf and his personnel staff were prepared to execute the draft as planned that weekend even though Vrabel would not be present at the facility on Saturday.
What the photos show, and what the timeline makes hard to ignore, is that the evening in Tribeca sat alongside a period when Vrabel was publicly confronting deeper problems at home and at work. The images date to six years before the later Arizona resort incident that brought the pair back into the news, but the March 2020 encounter now sits at the center of a very different public reckoning.
Russini responded to the attention with a post that read, “A blonde. A brunette. And a red head walk into a bar…”
