MAFIA Associate & Hollywood Godfather GIANNI RUSSO

The Motivation Show

Gianni Russo is known as the Hollywood Godfather, which also happens to be the name of his best selling book. In the book, he candidly talks about his life in the mob as well as his glorious movie career starring in The Godfather 1 & 2 movies. Wait til you hear some of the incredible people he palled around with including some of the infamous ladies he was…well…let’s just say he was associated with.

You will learn:

-Where he grew up and what were the circumstances & motivations that led him to being a Mafia Associate.

-What...ahem..."activities" did being a mafia associate actually entail?

-What is different about Little Italy today vs. in the old days when Mob boss John Gotti ruled the roost at the infamous Ravenite Social Club?

-What inspired him to do a tell-all memoir, or should I say…ALMOST all, called: Hollywood Godfather: My Life in the Movies and the Mob

-What was his relationship with notorious gangster Frank Costello, former crime boss of the Luciano crime family.

-At the age of 25, you came out of nowhere and was cast in the original Godfather movie as Sonny Corleone’s brother-in-law Carlo Rizzi. How did he get that plum role?

-The famous nightclub he owned in Sin City, and the night where he shot and killed someone in self defense and what notorious affiliation the person he killed had.

-The mafia code of silence and how it began to disintegrate and why wise guys started singing like canary's

-His relationship with Marilyn Monroe

-His second book The 6th Family: A Gianni Russo Novel – Book 1., the first in a series of books where there is much truth in the fiction.

-Does he have any regrets & what he would do differently?

-What positive and inspiring messages can my listeners learn from your 80 years of a roller coaster life?

-How he would like Gianni Russo to be remembered?