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The Bull Of The Bronx: Sonny Franzese and the Long Life of a Mafia Survivor

The Bull Of The Bronx: Sonny Franzese and the Long Life of a Mafia Survivor

Bellarosa, Luca

Paperback

Biographies GeneralTrue Crime

ISBN13: 9798176441833
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 22 2026
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

He was already a made man when Frank Sinatra ruled the Copacabana. He was still running rackets when his own great-grandchildren were being born.

John Sonny Franzese's career in the American Mafia began in 1938, when he was arrested for assault at twenty-one, and it did not end until 2011, when he was sentenced to eight years in federal prison at the age of ninety-four - still an active underboss, still collecting extortion payments from Manhattan strip clubs, seventy-three years after his first arrest. In between, he survived a wartime Army discharge citing pronounced homicidal tendencies, helped bankroll two of the most commercially significant films of the early 1970s, and beat a fifty-year federal sentence down to a decade, only to spend the next several decades cycling in and out of custody rather than ever fully walking away.

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