{"id":7636,"date":"2022-04-20T01:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=7636"},"modified":"2022-04-23T01:34:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T01:34:02","slug":"hollywood-godfather-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=7636","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Godfather, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_4206.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7638 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_4206-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><em>Hollywood Godfather: My Life in the Movies and the Mob<\/em>, by Gianni Russo (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gianni_Russo\">1943<\/a>-), published on March 12, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a mobster and actor in <em>The Godfather<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Godfather\">1972<\/a>), playing Rizzi, the son in law who betrayed the family and killed by Al Pacino &#8211; Sunny.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of today&#8217;s news, A New Jersey Catholic diocese agrees to pay $87.5M to settle sex abuse lawsuits by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/04\/20\/1093740385\/catholic-church-new-jersey-sex-abuse-settlement\">NPR<\/a>. My first question is, where did they get that type of money? Business insurance? Then, I laughed at myself softly, Russo wrote about laundering money in details in the book.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>he and an associate (Nick) made trips to Roma couple of times a month, \u00a0carrying uncirculated, crispy $100 bills, stuffed into 24&#8242; wide engineering bag that could contain unto $2m each, depositing into the Vatican Bank. The archbishop\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Paul Marcinkus (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Marcinkus\">1922<\/a>-2006), an\u00a0<\/span>American, would help them to invest the money, paying them 5%; keeping 15% for the church (the norm was 6%). At the time &#8211; 1978, the Swiss banks were the first choose in the world of money laundering\/transfers, and commending 1% fee from the depositors. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Russo asked, &#8220;If we were gagsters, what was the church?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A very good question.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are many other stories as well.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Marilyn Monroe (<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marilyn_Monroe\">1926<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1em;\">-62) de-flowered him; the food fight (Alfredo ) with\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Liza Minnelli \u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liza_Minnelli\">1946<\/a>-) <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1em;\">at \u00a0Warwick&#8217;s apartment; the\u00a0<\/span>engagement<span style=\"font-size: 1em;\">\u00a0to\u00a0<\/span>Zsa Zsa Gabor (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zsa_Zsa_Gabor\">1917<\/a>-2016)\u00a0and subsequent sex encounter with a pro &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Easy listen and entertaining.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood Godfather: My Life in the Movies and the Mob, by Gianni Russo (1943-), published on March 12, 2019. 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