The Chicago Syndicate: Frank Sinatra
Showing posts with label Frank Sinatra. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frank Sinatra. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin'

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In The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin' , author Bill Zehme presents a masterful assembly of the most per...
Friday, September 24, 2021

Deconstructing the Rat Pack: Joey, The Mob, and the Summit #LasVegas

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In celebration of the Rat Pack's 60th anniversary comes an amazing, historical, and wild ride of a tome called " Deconstructing The...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Sonny Franzese, the Legendary Mob Boss and Pal of Frank Sinatra Dies at 103

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Legendary Colombo crime family mobster John “Sonny” Franzese , who hung out with Frank Sinatra and befriended Marilyn Monroe before a bank ...
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Monday, December 30, 2019

Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro

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From bestselling author and the producer of the hit cable series Masters of Sex , Thomas Maier, comes a true story of espionage and mobsters...
Tuesday, May 07, 2019

Nick Bosa and Joey Bosa are the Great-Grandsons of the Most Powerful American Mob Boss of the 20th century

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In the first round of the 1987 draft, the Dolphins used the 16th pick to select John Bosa, a defensive end from Boston College. Miami again ...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

The Legitimate Wiseguy Movie to be Directed by Roland Joffe' Featuring the Story of Chicago Outfit Mobster Tony Spilotro and The Kid He Mentored

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He was one of the most ruthless, feared and notorious criminals ever to come out of the Chicago Outfit: Anthony ‘Tony the Ant’ Spilotro . No...
Friday, January 11, 2019

THE OUTFIT'S GREATEST HITS

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The Chicago Outfit's Greatest Hits from 1920 to 2001. 1920: Big Jim Colosimo is slain in his popular Wabash Avenue restaurant, making...
Thursday, November 15, 2018

How "Handsome Johnny" Roselli Infiltrated Hollywood for the Mob, Pulled Off a Major Scam, and Got Whacked

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On July 28, 1976, “Handsome Johnny” Rosselli , a mobster who rose up through the ranks with Al Capone , had brunch with his sister in Miami ...
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

HANDSOME JOHNNY—The Life and Death of Johnny Rosselli: Gentleman Gangster, Hollywood Producer, CIA Assassin

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A rich biography of the legendary figure at the center of the century’s darkest secrets: an untold story of golden age Hollywood, modern Las...

Hollywood and the Mafia

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Bollywood's connections with the underworld are common knowledge. There is a certain level of romanticism attached to the lives of the m...
Monday, October 08, 2018

Frank Sinatra and the Mob

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"Sinatra and the Mob" Frank Sinatra always denied his ties to the Mafia , and neither government investigators nor the press c...
Thursday, April 26, 2018

Chicago Brothers Discover their Father's Friends were #Mobsters. So, They Wrote a Book #MobAdjacent

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Childhood is, or should be, a time of innocence, and for a while that is the way it was for brothers Michael Jr. and Jeffrey Gentile. And th...

Mob Adjacent: A Family Memoir

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Mob Adjacent: A Family Memoir , takes an acid trip down memory lane as brothers Jeffrey and Michael Gentile , Jr. discover a parallel world ...
Monday, October 02, 2017

When the Mob Ran Vegas: Stories of Money. Mayhem and Murder

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When the Mob Ran Vegas: Stories of Money. Mayhem and Murder . What is it about Las Vegas that captivates us ? Is it how the skim worked at...
Monday, March 20, 2017

The Sinatra Club: My Life Inside the New York Mafia

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The Mob was the biggest , richest business in America . . . until it was destroyed from within by drugs, greed, and the decline of its tradi...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

How Al Capone's Successors Built a National Syndicate & Controlled America

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He was dubbed with one of the all-time greatest gangland nicknames, The Fixer. The tag fit Sidney Korshak like a calfskin glove. Born to i...
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Monday, January 04, 2016

Did Frank Sinatra Try to Have Woody Allen Whacked Over Treatment of Mia Farrow?

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Few people ever saw Frank Sinatra’s sensitive side, complained his ex-wife Mia Farrow. She called it the ‘wounding tenderness’ — so deeply f...