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Mafia links to showbiz success? #927710
01/26/18 10:50 AM 01/26/18 10:50 AM
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Apart from Sinatra, did anyone else have their showbiz career/success launched by the Mafia? I heard that the rock band Kiss had LCN help, but I'm skeptical about that...

"It was all crap, right up to the moment he died" - an investigator's opinion - and epitaph - of John Holmes (Johnny Wadd)

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Tony Danza, Mickey Rourke,Steven Seagal..
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Jerry Blavat
Re: Mafia links to showbiz success? [Re: flamingokid123] #927749
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Originally Posted by flamingokid123
Jerry Blavat

Good choice,practically made almost in the closeness way...but Tony Danza?, didn't know about that one.

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Re: Mafia links to showbiz success? [Re: night_timer] #927759
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Many Jazz musicians like Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Fletcher Henderson and Benny Goodman.

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Was James Caan helped? How did the mafia help Mickey Rourke?

"It was all crap, right up to the moment he died" - an investigator's opinion - and epitaph - of John Holmes (Johnny Wadd)

"Drunk words are sober thoughts" - Anon.
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Roulette Records ran by Morris Levy was a front for the Genovese family. They had a few hits from artists like Tommy James & The Shondells,Count Basie,Bill Haley and His Comets and Louis Armstrong
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Hesh on the Sopranos is based on Levy.

Scorsese is still considering making a movie about Levy and Tommy James.

"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
Re: Mafia links to showbiz success? [Re: OakAsFan] #927778
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Originally Posted by OakAsFan
Hesh on the Sopranos is based on Levy.

Scorsese is still considering making a movie about Levy and Tommy James.

That might be pretty good He was around for a long time

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