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Michael Franzese Sr. (/ f r æ n ˈ z iː s /) [2] (né Grillo; born May 27, 1951) is an American former mobster who was a caporegime in the Colombo crime family in New York City, and son of former underboss Sonny Franzese.
Michael "Mikey Muscles" DiCarlo (died May 16, 1978) was an associate from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. A small-time associate of an unidentified Lucchese family caporegime in Brooklyn, DiCarlo was also named as a gay pimp in "The Rothstein Files", documents on the sex industry in Manhattan compiled by former New York City Police Department (NYPD ...
Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical gangster film [5] directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is a film adaptation of Pileggi's 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy .
Michael "Yuppie Don" Franzese – son of John Franzese. Michael organized a highly lucrative gasoline scam racket with the Russian mafia. Franzese was promoted to caporegime in 1980 and retired in 1995 after he was released from prison. [233] [234] [235] Richard "Richie Nerves" Fusco – former consigliere.
James Burke (July 5, 1931 – April 13, 1996), also known as "Jimmy the Gent", was an American gangster and Lucchese crime family associate who is believed to have organized the 1978 Lufthansa heist, the largest cash robbery in American history at the time.
Michael Imperioli sat down with CNN’s Chris Wallace to discuss the iconic actors he met working on the sets of “Goodfellas” and “The Sopranos” – and the scene that sent him to the ...
Thomas DeSimone was born in New York City, New York, on June 6, 1946.He had two sisters, Dolores and Phyllis, and two brothers, Robert and Anthony. Both of his brothers were associates of the Gambino crime family; Anthony was murdered by mobster Thomas Agro in 1979.
Franzese was married to a woman with whom he had three children. [34] While married, John had gotten Cristina Capobianco, a 16-year-old cigarette girl at the Stork Club in Manhattan, pregnant with his son Michael Franzese. Capobianco then married Frank Grillo, to avoid having a scandal surrounding having a child out of wedlock. [34]