John Franzese

John "Sonny" Franzese, Sr. (February 6, 1917Bureau of Narcotics, Sam Giancana Mafia: The Governments Secret File on Organized Crime.(pg. 454) – February 24, 2020) was an Italian-American longtime member and underboss of the Colombo crime family. Franzese was famous as the oldest active member of the American Mafia. Franzese was an associate producer of the 2002 movie This Thing of Ours."LAW AND ORDER; In the Can" New York Times November 3, 2002

Franzese was born in Naples and raised in New York City.

He also helped pay the $22,000 budget of the 1972 pornographic movie Deep Throat and the 1974 slasher movie The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which earned over $30 million from a $80,000–140,000 investment.

Franzese was released from the Federal Medical Center in Devens, Massachusetts on June 23, 2017, at the age of 100.

Franzese died on February 24, 2020, in a New York City hospital at the age of 103.

References

Other websites
La Cosa Nostra – State of New Jersey Commission of Investigation 1989 Report- The Colombo/Persico/Orena Family

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