{"id":207426,"date":"2026-04-23T17:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207426\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:27:07","slug":"newly-surfaced-photos-reportedly-show-mike-vrabel-dianna-russini-at-nyc-bar-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207426\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly surfaced photos reportedly show Mike Vrabel, Dianna Russini at NYC bar in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More photos of <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/teams\/new-england\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:New England Patriots;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New England Patriots&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New England Patriots<\/a> head coach and NFL insider Dianna Russini were published on Thursday by <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/23\/celebrity-news\/dianna-russini-and-married-mike-vrabel-caught-kissing-at-nyc-bar-taken-6-years-before-scandal\/?utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the New York Post\u2019s Page Six;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;the New York Post\u2019s Page Six&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\">the New York Post\u2019s Page Six<\/a>. The images reportedly are from 2020, six years before Vrabel and Russini were photographed holding hands, hugging and hanging poolside at a luxury hotel in <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/teams\/arizona\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Arizona;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Arizona&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The newly surfaced pictures show Vrabel and Russini sitting closely together, reportedly at a New York City bar. Vrabel was the head coach of the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/teams\/tennessee\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tennessee Titans;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Tennessee Titans&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tennessee Titans<\/a>, and Russini was working for ESPN at the time the photos were reportedly taken.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In those images, Vrabel is shown touching Russini\u2019s arm and even leaning in toward her.<\/p>\n<p>Vrabel and Russini were at New York\u2019s Tribeca Tavern for at least an hour in the early hours of March 11, 2020, according to Page Six.<\/p>\n<p>Russini <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/breaking-news\/article\/dianna-russini-resigns-from-the-athletic-after-photos-with-patriots-head-coach-mike-vrabel-investigation-194430562.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:resigned from her post at The Athletic on April 14;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;resigned from her post at The Athletic on April 14&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" target=\"_blank\">resigned from her post at The Athletic on April 14<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/article\/patriots-coach-mike-vrabel-to-miss-day-3-of-nfl-draft-to-seek-counseling-after-dianna-russini-photos-043427098.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:Vrabel is skipping Day 3 of the NFL Draft to seek counseling;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;3&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Vrabel is skipping Day 3 of the NFL Draft to seek counseling&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" target=\"_blank\">Vrabel is skipping Day 3 of the NFL Draft to seek counseling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This story is being updated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More photos of New England Patriots head coach and NFL insider Dianna Russini were published on Thursday by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1458,77321,837,9,4330,56,63,65,64,771,82251],"class_list":{"0":"post-207426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-dianna-russini","10":"tag-new-england-patriots","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-post","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-tennessee-titans","18":"tag-vrabel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}