Yesterday we saw Snooki of Jersey Shore’s new boyfriend, Jeff Miranda, propose to the squat drunken reality star while shirtless and wearing fatigues with combat boots on the cover of a magazine. Jeff has only been going out with Snooki for a few weeks but he’s apparently serious about her and ready to make it legal. (For publicity and cash.) Radar Online has a couple of stories that shed light onto Jeff’s motivations and personality. First off is an interview with an ex girlfriend who claims that the guy is a controlling psycho creep who also proposed to her after just a couple of weeks, freaking out her family and leading her to break it off:

“We only hung out for about two weeks before he proposed to me,” Giana Gerardo told RadarOnline.com exclusively. I had just graduated from High School. He came to meet my parents in a full suit! He’s psycho.”

The New Jersey native says she met Miranda in the fall of 2006. The pair was hot and heavy for a couple weeks before Gerardo says Miranda popped the question, and then things started to go sour.

“I broke it off with him because he was too controlling and way too possessive,” Gerardo told RadarOnline.com. “He always needed to know where I was, who I was with, what I was wearing out.”

In his interview with Steppin’ Out, Miranda told editor Chaunce Hayden that he wants to marry Snooki because “I love her and I want to be with her.”

But Gerardo says she doesn’t buy it.

“Jeff says he’s ‘in love with her’ and that he’s not in it for the fame, but if that were true, he wouldn’t be doing magazine shoots,” Gerardo told RadarOnline.com.

[From Radar Online]

And Radar has another story about how Jeff used to be a club promoter who regularly partied with swingers. They have a whole series of photos featuring him macking on scantily-dressed women along with quotes about what a liar and a scam artist he is. “He loved to try and impress people and would tell them that he was ‘in the mob’ and that he was ‘a made guy’ with the mafia but nobody believed a word that came-out of his mouth… [he] was always obsessed with becoming famous and was mad when his audition for Jersey Shore was not successful.”

This guy sure is getting a lot of publicity for someone who tried out for Jersey Shore and was turned down. He may not be able to spin it into a multi-million dollar career like The Situation, but he’ll be able to charge for event appearances after he hits the scene as Snooki’s would-be fiance. Snooki hasn’t given an official response to Jeff’s proposal yet, as that might require being sober longer than she’s willing to tolerate. I hope she breaks it off with him. I doubt she could do much better at this point, though.

Update: Snooki has sort-of responded to this guy’s proposal. She tweeted “Just want to set the record straight. I’m single and I’m not going to get married!” I’m sure someone sober and with more sense wrote that for her.