Louis Giovanni "Gianni" Russo is an American actor and singer. Russo was raised in Rosebank, Staten Island. He claims that he has mob connections and that his uncle was a soldier in the Gambino crime family. There are claims that the Gambinos persuaded Francis Ford Coppola to cast Russo as Carlo Rizzi in the 1972 movie The Godfather.
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- Louis Giovanni "Gianni" Russo is an American actor and singer. Russo was raised in Rosebank, Staten Island. He claims that he has mob connections and that his uncle was a soldier in the Gambino crime family. There are claims that the Gambinos persuaded Francis Ford Coppola to cast Russo as Carlo Rizzi in the 1972 movie The Godfather. According to Russo, his father was a longshoreman and a musician who worked at the Brooklyn waterfront who was ashamed his only son was crippled from polio and refused to acknowledge him during his early childhood. He suffered from a "gimp arm" as a result of the disease. After reprising the Rizzi character in a brief flashback scene at the end of The Godfather Part II, Russo went on to act in more than 35 movies including The Freshman, Super Mario Bros. , Any Given Sunday, and Seabiscuit. Russo claims that he started a fledgling career in organized crime working as an errand boy and mob associate for Frank Costello as an adolescent but later abandoned the dangerous and volatile lifestyle of organized crime. In his 2006 book Supermob, investigative reporter Gus Russo (no relation mentioned) writes that Gianni Russo secured his role in The Godfather by acting as an intermediary between Paramount Studios and NYC Mafia don Joe Colombo Sr. , whose Italian American Anti-Defamation League had shut down early production of the film in Manhattan. Colombo met with the film executives who then hired Russo to play Carlo. Russo claims that he has personally known three popes, five United States presidents and every mafia boss in the United States. He also claims to have had romantic trysts with Marilyn Monroe, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Liza Minnelli. Over the years since the beginning of his stardom he has owned a Las Vegas restaurant called Gianni Russo's State Street, dated Dionne Warwick for more than a decade and has successfully defeated twenty-three federal criminal indictments on a variety of charges stemming from alleged organized crime associations. Russo is also an accomplished singer. In 2004, he released a CD called Reflections that pays homage to Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra.
- Louis Giovanni "Gianni" Russo (12 de diciembre de 1943) es un actor y cantante estadounidense Russo fue criado en Rosebank, Staten Island. Asegura tener conexiones con la mafia y que su tío fue soldado en la familia criminal Gambino. Algunos rumores dicen que los Gambino convencieron a Francis Ford Coppola para que le diera a Russo el papel de Carlo Rizzi en El Padrino a Russo. Comenta también que su padre era un estibador y músico que trabajaba en el muelle de Brooklyn, y se sentía avergonzado de que su único hijo estuviese lisiado por una enfermedad y se negó a reconocerlo durante su niñez. Tenia un brazo tullido como resultado de la enfermedad. Es conocido por su interpretación de Carlo Rizzi en El padrino (1972). Después de repetir su papel de Rizzi brevemente durante una escena flashback al final de El padrino II, Russo trabajaría en más de 35 películas, incluyendo The Freshman, Super Mario Bros. , Any Given Sunday y Seabiscuit. Russo asegura haber comenzado una carrera en el crimen organizado trabajando como recadero y asociado de la mafia para Frank Costello de adolescente, pero más tarde abandonó ese estílo de vida peligroso y volátil. En su libro Supermob, el periodista Gus Russo (sin parentesco aparente) escribió que Gianni Russo consiguió su papel en El padrino actuando como intermediario entre el estudio Paramount y el don de la mafia de Nueva York, Joe Colombo Sr. , cuya Liga anti difamación italiana había impedido el comienzo de la producción de la película en Manhattan. Colombo se reunió con los productores ejecutivos de la película quienes más tarde contrataron a Russo para interpretar a Carlo. Russo asegura haber conocido personalmente a tres papas, cinco presidentes de Estados Unidos y todos los jefes de la mafia del país. También dice haber tenido citas con Marilyn Monroe, Zsa Zsa Gabor y Liza Minnelli. Los años siguientes después del comienzo de su estrellato abrió un restaurante en Las Vegas llamado Gianni Russo' State Street, ha salido con Dionne Warwick por más de una década y ha vencido exitosamente 23 acusaciones de crímenes federales en una variedad de cargos relacionados a asociaciones del crimen organizado. También es un consumado cantante. En 2004 lanzó un álbum llamado Reflections donde homenajea a Dino Paul Crocetti (Dean Martin) y Frank Sinatra.
- Gianni Russo est un acteur, scénariste et producteur né le 17 avril 1944.
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- Louis Giovanni "Gianni" Russo (12 de diciembre de 1943) es un actor y cantante estadounidense Russo fue criado en Rosebank, Staten Island. Asegura tener conexiones con la mafia y que su tío fue soldado en la familia criminal Gambino. Algunos rumores dicen que los Gambino convencieron a Francis Ford Coppola para que le diera a Russo el papel de Carlo Rizzi en El Padrino a Russo.
- Louis Giovanni "Gianni" Russo is an American actor and singer. Russo was raised in Rosebank, Staten Island. He claims that he has mob connections and that his uncle was a soldier in the Gambino crime family. There are claims that the Gambinos persuaded Francis Ford Coppola to cast Russo as Carlo Rizzi in the 1972 movie The Godfather.
- Gianni Russo est un acteur, scénariste et producteur né le 17 avril 1944.
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