Artie Lange has experienced it all — fame, fortune, drug addiction and two suicide attempts. When you break it down, though, he's just a regular Italian guy from with a very colorful past — and a beautiful bayfront mansion.

Lange, who grew up in New Jersey before moving to Los Angeles, struck gold with a gig on "The Howard Stern Show" from 2001 to 2009 — but that's not how his story began.

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