Robert Gearty at Foxnews.com reports that Sonny Franzese, the former Cosa Nostra Colombo organized crime family underboss, has died.
Legendary New York
mobster John “Sonny” Franzese, the former underboss of the Colombo Crime
Family, has died at 103, TMZ reported.
As a younger man, according to
Mafia lore, Franzese was a big spender and a regular at New
York's Copacabana nightclub, where he hobnobbed with Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr.
He also provided financing for the classic 1972 porn film "Deep Throat.”
Franzese died of natural causes at a nursing home in New York, Fox News confirmed.
Franzese died of natural causes at a nursing home in New York, Fox News confirmed.
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