The love affair between Hollywood and the Mafia
“Dapper Don” John Gotti was a flamboyant, jury-tampering assassin who loved the adulation of Hollywood. Each Anthony Quinn and Mickey Rourke made sympathetic appearances on behalf of Gotti throughout his 1992 trial for the mob-related hit of gangster boss Paul Castellano. Rourke even took pointers from Gotti about play the right mobster for a job…
“Dapper Don” John Gotti was a flamboyant, jury-tampering assassin who loved the adulation of Hollywood.
Each Anthony Quinn and Mickey Rourke made sympathetic appearances on behalf of Gotti throughout his 1992 trial for the mob-related hit of gangster boss Paul Castellano. Rourke even took pointers from Gotti about play the right mobster for a job he’d accepted. Satirically, Quinn was later forged within the 1996 HBO film Gotti because the mob chieftain’s mentor Neil Dellacroce. Armand Assante, who performed Gotti within the flick, truly sought mob permission earlier than taking the title function. John Travolta later performed Gotti in a 2018 film in regards to the gangster.
In 1998, Gotti – arguably the best-known American gangster since Al Capone – was recognized with throat most cancers. Although he had the tumor eliminated, the most cancers took Gotti’s life on June 10, 2002. He was 61.
