of Sicilian family emigrated to New Jersey, according to one of the smugglers in their neighborhood, "always wanted to be a gangster."
Acted in a sort of strike rompeghuelgas recordings from August 1, 1942 until November 1944 conducted the musicians organized around the American Federation of Musicians (AFM).
After leaving the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in breach of his contract, send the bully Willie Moretti to say four things to Dorsey. "Willie put his finger on the trigger of the gun and said he was delighted to learn that Frank was going to leave to break the contract. I understood the message," Dorsey recalled, according to an excerpt from the book published in the latest issue of Vanity Fair.
However, the relationship with the godfather Luigi Luciano Luciano interesante.Lucky as he reached the highest levels of power personally mafia after killing twenty people and settle in the operations center Mob in Havana and later, in Las Vegas. Sinatra, according to Summers and Swan, helped both directly and indirectly. A year after Luciano came to Havana in 1946, Sinatra, 31 years old, brought him $ 3.5 million in bills of 50-according to various sources cited by the authors, including Jerry Lewis, used to build the rule of Luciano in Cuba.
Sinatra was intercepted in a routine check at the office and was forced to open the briefcase to conceal dirty money.
But the crowd that began to surround it and push it as was recognized, saved and made the customs officer let him go knowing money whose amount and source, according to Lewis, could have seriously compromised.
Sinatra sang with the mob gathered at the Hotel Nacional in Havana in 1947, convened by Luciano.
At that meeting it was agreed the murder of Bugsy Siegel, the Mafia boss of the West, strong man in Las Vegas, whose new Tropicana hotel was undergoing a financial crisis.
Consortium Luciano took over the Flamingo hotel and managed the conversion of Las Vegas in the gambling mecca and entertainment. Frank was the main attraction. Sinatra became the greatest asset of the next big investment operation in Las Vegas, the Sands Hotel, where Sinatra played every year until the late sixties.
to have Sinatra's voice in their casinos and to further popularize the American mafia has done everything necessary so that the singer had his chance to shine as an actor in film. As in the story of the casting of "From Here to Eternity," Sinatra film that launched to stardom in Hollywood. In 1952, Sinatra, on the verge of bankruptcy emotionally and financially, after a destructive relationship with Ava Gardner, tried to get the role of the soldier Angelo Maggio vacated by Eli Wallach in the famous film about American soldiers stationed in Honolulu before the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
The director, Fred Zinnemann, Sinatra was interested in, but producer Harry Cohn refused and crossed to Sinatra's mediocre. Just hours later, Cohn received a call from the killer Jimmy "Blue Eyes" Alo, Luciano collaborator.
Sinatra later won an Oscar for his portrayal of the young Maggio.
is also rumored Sinatra indirect involvement in the murder of Marilyn Monroe
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