Lebanon Levi Stoltzfus

What is the true story behind The Discovery Channel's Amish Mafia? Lebanon Levi has been identified as being a modern day Matt Dillion. A man that doesn't sell out to laws being broken. Now he's written a book that puts the truth of the Amish out there for all to see. From the iHeart Radio Studio I'm Unplugged and Totally Uncut with Lebanon Levi Stoltzfus In AMISH CONFIDENTIAL, (Gallery Books; March 31, 2015; Hardcover; $24.99) the star of the hit Discovery Channel reality show Amish Mafia, Lebanon” Levi Stoltzfus, delivers a sizzling tell-all about Amish life today. Entering its fourth season, and with an average of 2.5 million viewers per episode, Amish Mafia is Discovery Channel’s #1 show. AMISH CONFIDENTIAL’s publication will coincide with the reunion episode and will be a key storyline throughout the season. The public has been consistently fascinated with this enigmatic, mysterious, and closed-off group. With 20 million people visiting Amish communities every year, and the Amish tourism business making over $2 billion a year, interest in the Amish has never been greater. The Amish are one of the fastest growing religious populations in America today, with a total population approaching three hundred thousand, and it’s doubling every twenty years with a nearly unheard of 5% growth rate. AMISH CONFIDENTIAL takes readers beyond the buggies, bonnets, and beards. In his book, Levi Stoltzfus exposes: • The prohibited automobiles, cell phones, electricity, illicit Wi-Fi, swimming pools, and other modern conveniences that have slowly but surely crept into Amish life. • Illicit drug use of Amish teenagers, especially cocaine and marijuana, and their all-night field parties filled with alcohol, drugs, and dancing. • Amish-owned puppy mills and vicious animal cruelty within the community. • The cruelness and vicious gossiping that occurs within the Amish community, particularly among the women at their quilting parties. • Fighting within the Amish community, including physical beard attacks as revenge for disobeying Amish rules. • The hypocrisy and cruelty of Amish shunnings, and why some Amish get shunned and others do not, even when breaking the same rules. Weaving his own never-before-told personal story of his relationship with the Amish faith, Stoltzfus also discusses high-profile Amish episodes including the Nickel Mines shooting massacre, the Amish sisters’ farm-stand kidnapping, and the Amish-Pagan drug gang. Despite his frustrations with the Amish faith, and the backlash to his reality show, Stoltzfus also highlights the kindness found within the community and how the faithful are genuinely there for each other in times of need. As America’s most famous Amish tough guy makes clear on every page, there is nothing plain or simple about the plain-and-simple life ABOUT “LEBANON” LEVI STOLZFUS "Lebanon" Levi Stoltzfus is the star of the #1 Discovery Channel reality show Amish Mafia, which follows a small group of men who self-assume the duty of preserving order in the Amish community of Lancaster, PA. In distrust of the local police force, the "Amish Mafia" exist above the law, serving as police, judge, and jury, with Levi as their leader. Levi lives in Richland, PA, a borough of Lebanon County.