Story Of Tony Delvecchio example essay topic

'THE STORY OF TONY DELVECCHIO " by: Gayle Kendall and Tony Delvecchio " This is the story of a man who grew up, lived, worked with, and became friends with some of the most famous and infamous people of our time and he lived to tell the tale. ' A father angrily picks up his son from jail who was arrested with a couple of local wise guys. As they leave the prison, the son is confused by his father's behavior. He thought his father would be proud since he heard all the stories of his father's past, being best friends with John Gotti and Frank Sinatra. The father takes him up to the cabin to tell him the story of his life. The father's name is Tony Delvecchio.

He begins telling his son the story of his life as a wise guy. Tony used to take beatings from his father, after his father got through beating his mother. Tony grew up in the poor town of Newark, New Jersey. To escape the beating Tony became a fighter working out in the local gym.

That is where he caught the eye of the local wise guys. It was his first fight and Tony was killing his opponent. He took the rage of his father out on the other fighter. This is when the two local wise guys thought that he could be useful.

Smudgie and Dem us ran Newark for the Mafia. They invited Tony to dinner and brought him to Jilly's, the hottest nightclub in New York at the time. Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe and Peter Lawford were there. From the day on, he knew that this was the life he wanted. Smudgie started liking him and became like a father figure. This took him in to a life of collecting debts and running numbers for the mob.

He had everything he thought he ever wanted. He had money and could do what ever he wanted. He learned quickly the rules and the most important rule of them all never to rat. After a while, the big boss's son wanted to make an example of Smudgie, mostly because he was getting too much power. Therefore, they put a hit out on Smudgie. The hit went bad and Smudgie took out most of them but Smudgie, himself was hit.

They were still after him and Tony helped the only father he really knew escape. That meant he had to lay low for a while. He just could not live the life. Therefore, he opened a bar with an old gangster in middle of nowhere. It was a cover up for gambling operation and a number of rackets.

This is when he finds out that his new partner is stealing money from the new top lieutenant, a man by the name of John Gotti. Therefore, he decided to make amends and take some money to give it to Gotti himself. Gotti was impressed by the balls on this guy and became his friend. This took him to the big time. Tony reopens Jilly and it becomes once again the hottest spot in New York. But this time he did not trust his partners.

Everything was going beautifully so his partner persuades him to open a casino in Cuba. That becomes the hottest club. Things are wonderful and they are living like kings. He misses the States and sets up a meeting with Gotti to discuss opening the Poconos as a resort for the wise guys. Gotti says he will sleep on it. When he gets back things are going OK, until one night the Cuban mob comes in and starts winning the house.

He finds out that one of his partner's rats him out and all hell breaks loose. He escapes back to the States. Just when he thinks, he is safe. His partner on the advice of Frank Sinatra rats him out he spends some time in jail, does it quietly and released to live a life with his wife and family. Through it all, he was around the men who started it all. They put Kennedy in the White House and watched him take the fall.

He saw Marilyn leave Frank for Jack. He saw the power, the money, the fame and the control these people had on the whole world. So the advice he gives to his son is stay away. Once you go too far you can never go back and a life like that is no life at all.