You can't possibly really believe this....

So his $2,000 dollar suits, daily haircuts, never making even the slightest attempt to avoid publicity, huge smiles everytime cameras were on him, responding with a smart remark to as many questions from reporters as he could, was all THEIR doing and not Gotti clearly drawing attention to himself, welcoming them at his home, the Ravenite, the grocery store and whenever else and fueling them to keep the cameras on him? Ok.

Funny how cameras never chased Paul Castellano everywhere he went...or Tony Corallo...or Funzi Tieri.....or Carmine Persico....shall I keep going?

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They went crazy with Gotti. They had cases that stuck against Corello and Tieri, ad by the way, they had them all on tapes too. So Gotti was not the only one recorded. He got daily haircuts? So what? He did try to avoid publicity's s I said he tried to avoid them but the reporters were tipped off to where he would be.


As for you saying this:

"..responding with a smart remark to as many questions from reporters as he could,"

you are wrong again. He might give a comment, but he would keep walking to avoid them . Look at every video of him , he never stopped for reporters. If you have one of him giving an interview, show it.


What is this:

"...welcoming them at his home.."

Huh??? Are you mixed up? He never welcomed them into his home, A video him and his family once took was put out by the feds, but not him. You have everything wrong.

Iceviens, you now crossed over to being full of it. Plus saying I was "an egotistical attention whore," was uncalled for.

This sounds like BS:

"I was able to get private access to perhaps the biggest archive of network news footage of mobsters available on the internet."

If you looked through more footage than anyone, as you claim, and saw nothing but Gotti's face---well, there is my point. They focused on him, not the other way around.

They made him a celebrity/posterboy the Mafia sells in particular in those crazy days. Now much less ofcourse only online on socials maybe but not for NY Post or NYDN.

He made himself the poster boy. Before Gotti, the only boss who garnered anywhere near the media attention that he did was Albert Anastasia and the fact that Anastasia also seemed to welcome the attention instead of avoiding it was one of several reasons that lead to his demise.

I've never seen any news footage of any other mob boss outside of courts or arrests and never seen a boss speak to reporters. If you put a little effort to avoid news coverage, you can, but Gotti made no such effort.

Capone, Anastasia, Gotti you can compare them, the press/media made them stars but they also put themselves in the limelight.

I would also include Joe Colombo among the most "flashy" bosses who weren't low-profile and sought attention (or at least acted like it).

Manna could have but he was caught on a wire. There is also a possibility that Gotti got wind of it prior to the fbi telling him and gotti having Manna killed. We will never know.

The reason why the Media paid so much attention to John was because he was marketable and likeable by the general public. He had that charisma about him that is portrayed in movies such as Goodfellas, which is popular for a reason. Simply put, he made a Mob boss cool to follow. He had good looks, dressed really well and just had that IT factor. Guys like the Chin were ugly as fuck and not marketable. Lets be honest, most mob bosses do not look like Hollywood movie stars but John did. That is why he was who he was.

The reason why the Media paid so much attention to John was because he was marketable and likeable by the general public. He had that charisma about him that is portrayed in movies such as Goodfellas, which is popular for a reason. Simply put, he made a Mob boss cool to follow. He had good looks, dressed really well and just had that IT factor. Guys like the Chin were ugly as fuck and not marketable. Lets be honest, most mob bosses do not look like Hollywood movie stars but John did. That is why he was who he was.

Bobby Manna would have killed him he was the son of a mafioso going back to the early days of cosa nostra.

I grew up with the “son of a mafioso” and he was a ballet dancer. What does that have to do with it ?