He routinely refers to his father’s high position in “the life.” In one stretch, Michael Franzese tells the audience that his dad usually showed up at his baseball games in a big black Cadillac, emerging impeccably dressed in a black suit, always surrounded by his guys. His lengthy history with the mob relates to Las Vegas (inevitably) through the new musical “A Mob Story” at the Plaza Showroom.įranzese’s son Michael is the show’s executive producer, inspiration and narrator. He was largely confined to a wheelchair at the time.īut the centenarian overlord finally paid his debt to society, simply outliving his sentence and is a free man residing in Brooklyn. He spent 40 of the past 50 years in prison, released just last year at age 100.Īt 93, Franzese was convicted of extorting two Manhattan strip clubs and a pizzeria in Long Island, New York. He’s the former underboss of the Colombo crime family, the John Gotti of organized crime in the U.S. John “Sonny” Franzese is 101 years old and wants to visit his boy in downtown Las Vegas.įranzese is an old-school mob boss, in every calculable way. Celine Dion, seen in 2017 (Denise Truscello)
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