Did Sonny Franzese meet Capone and Luciano?

[aleksandrored]

Michael always says that his father met Capone and Luciano, he even goes so far as to say that the NYC guys thought Capone badly, to what extent is all this true? did he really know them? I say this because Capone was arrested in 1931 and Luciano in 1936. At that time Franzese was not even 20 years old, he should be a member only.

[Antiliar]

I think Michael got his chronology confused.

[TommyGambino]

Michael says a lot of things

[Rocco]

Michael makes a living doing speeches. So he throws allot of bullshit fillers in there....lol

[aleksandrored]

Lansky I think he probably even met, more Luciano and Capone I think he only heard about it, at most he saw Luciano in the mid-30s when he was an associate. Sonny was very old and met a lot of people, but guys like Luciano and Capone I think are very unlikely.

[aleksandrored]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNlR3lfnLR8

He says that in this podcast, besides saying that Sonny said that the guys from NYC said that Capone ran away from there, the guys from NYC thought badly of Capone? even though Sonny didn't know Capone he may have heard something like that.

[Dave65827]

I think Michael is lying or his dad was fucking with him lol

[Pogo The Clown]

Don't think so. Capone left NY in 1919 and I believe only returned briefly in 1925 when Franzese was only a little kid.


Pogo

[furiofromnaples]

Sonny Franzese was born in 1917 and Capone went to jail in 1931 and Luciano in 1936. In both cases he was too young.

[Extortion]

I think it’s likely he met Lucky.

[aleksandrored]

I think it’s likely he met Lucky.

The problem was that he was very young, it is difficult to believe that a 19 year old associate of the Profaci family would meet the head of the Lucianio family, at most I believe he only saw Luciano and heard about him.

[Lupara]

The more important question: did he ever met up with Marilyn Monroe?

[aleksandrored]

The more important question: did he ever met up with Marilyn Monroe?

He said that?

[dack2001]

Historically speaking, in the 20s and 30s a guy being in his teens would not disqualify him from participating in gangland action. May of these kids grew up in the streets. I'm not saying Sonny met Capone and Luciano but he was already near a legend in the street when he went to the can in the 60's. Do you think he became a legend by waiting until he turned 20 to start committing crimes? Do you think he became a legend with 50 bodies to his name because he was clipping nobodies for the thrill of it? I wouldn't be surprised for one minute that Sonny's career started very, very early and involved formative figures from the early years of OC.

[MightyDR]

https://www.newsday.com/long-island/inv ... 1.29009986
Haven't checked out what Michael said about his father meeting Luciano, but Sonny said himself that he was running the largest craps game in New York in 1935 when he was 18. if that's true it's plausible he could have met Luciano.