A Main Line restaurateur has been charged with unlawfully sharing intimate photos of his ex-girlfriend
Alessandro “Alex” Fiorello, of Conshohocken, is the chef/owner of Alessandro’s Wood Fired Italian & Bar in Wayne and Alessandro’s Pizzeria in West Chester.
A prominent Main Line restaurateur will face a Montgomery County judge on charges of unlawful dissemination of images and disorderly conduct after prosecutors said he copied intimate photos of his ex-girlfriend without her consent and sent them to her new boyfriend.
Alessandro “Alex” Fiorello told his ex she was “just mad [she] got exposed” after she confronted him and likened him to a “[expletive] serial killer,” according to the affidavit of probable cause for his Sept. 2 arrest.
Fiorello, 29, of Conshohocken, is the chef/owner of two suburban Italian restaurants — Alessandro’s Wood Fired Italian & Bar in Wayne, which opened in 2020, and Alessandro’s Pizzeria in West Chester, which opened last year. Fiorello’s third restaurant, Alessandro’s Enoteca, is set to open in Bryn Mawr this month.
He waived his preliminary hearing last week during an appearance before a district judge. During that proceeding, prosecutors dropped two counts of harassment that Fiorello faced, as well as one count of stalking, court records show.
His attorney, Michael Kotik, declined to comment on the case Tuesday.
Whitemarsh police said Fiorello’s ex-girlfriend contacted them in August to report that Fiorello had sent her new boyfriend intimate and explicit photos of her that he had taken from her cell phone without her permission while she and Fiorello were dating, the affidavit said.
The woman told police Fiorello had gone through her cell phone in January while she was sleeping and duplicated the photos by taking pictures of them with his phone.
She knew he had done this, she said, because Fiorello confronted her about the photos when she woke up. The couple broke up in May.
Later, when the woman began dating someone else, Fiorello found her boyfriend on Instagram and sent him the images, the affidavit said.
The criminal charges come at a time when Fiorello’s profile is on the rise as a young chef in a competitive restaurant scene.
Workers’ compensation law firm Pond Lehocky Giordano invested around $1 million in Fiorello’s restaurant group earlier this year, according to the Philadelphia Business Journal. The law firm’s investment was set to fund the opening of Fiorello’s Bryn Mawr restaurant. Pond Lehocky Giordano did not immediately respond to request for comment.
Fiorello was raised in Brooklyn and moved to Chester County as a teenager. He worked in kitchens from a young age, and at one point led his father’s restaurant, Fiorello’s Café in West Chester, as executive chef, according to his website.
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