None of Luigi Mangione’s family members have come to visit him in jail since he was arrested and accused of assassinating United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Inside sources revealed to Fox News that the 26-year-old has had several meetings with his lawyer at the Blair County, Pennsylvania jail, but none with relatives.
Mangione reportedly met with his attorney, Karen Agnifilo, and her husband, Marc Agnifilo – the lawyer representing disgraced hip-hop mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs – on Friday
The Maryland native has also met with Pennsylvania attorney Thomas Dickey, but Agnifilo is set to represent him on his second-degree murder charge, according to a spokesperson.
Agnifilo previously served as the chief assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office for seven years.
Dickey has worked as a trial attorney in Pennsylvania for more than 40 years.
Mangione was denied bail from Huntingdon State Correctional Institution last week.
None of the alleged assassin’s family appeared at his court hearing last week. He had strayed away from them at some point last year and seemingly went into an isolated mental health spiral due to his severe back pain.
After Mangione was arrested on December 9 at a McDdonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, his prominent Maryland family issued a somber statement.
‘Our family is shocked and devastated by Luigi’s arrest,’ it read.
‘We offer our prayers to the family of Brian Thompson and we ask people to pray for all involved.’
Before Mangione was arrested for allegedly shooting Thompson in front of a New York City Hilton on December 4, his mother made a solemn church visit.
Kathleen Mangione was seen with her husband, Louis, at a church ceremony in Baltimore’s Little Italy honoring one of her brothers, just a day before their son was arrested.
‘Less than 24 hours later, their lives completely did a flip flop,’ Santo Grasso, a longtime family friend who was at the event, told the Wall Street Journal.
Those close to the family said that Kathy was doing everything she could for the better half of the year to search for her son, after he ‘went off the grid’ and ‘wasn’t communicating with anybody,’ the WSJ reported.
The distraught family even hired a private investigator to track down the estranged University of Pennsylvania graduate after he ‘cut everyone off.’
A friend from Mangione’s all-boys private high school, The Gilman School in Baltimore, said his family became increasingly worried for his well-being after he disappeared last year.
The anonymous source told DailyMail.com: ‘I did know he was having some issues. He wasn’t talking with his family, and nobody could find him.
‘They hired a private investigator, they were so worried.’
Mangione’s influential Italian-American family is known in their community for their real estate fortune and nursing home empire.
His cousin, Nino Mangione, is a Republican member of Maryland’s House of Delegates. Luigi also has two sisters, artist Lucia and doctor MariaSanta.
Mangione’s philanthropist grandmother Mary C. Mangione, left a fortune estimated to be worth at least $30 million to her family when she died last year.
The money was put into a trust where the trustees, one of whom is Mangione’s father, have the power to make distributions.
One of the trust’s conditions is that anyone charged with a crime may not see any of the money, meaning Mangione may never get his share of the funds.