"The actor who portrayed the gay lover of a closeted mobster on "The Sopranos" has died of a self-flicted gunshot wound New York, police said. Police
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- GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
- SOPRANOS‘ GAY CHARACTER ‘JOHNNY CAK’ KILLS HIMSELF
- THE GAY MOBSTER ‘SOPRANOS’ WRERS USED AS THE BASIS FOR VO SPATAFORE
- JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
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”Drsed appropriate leather bar attire, Vo Spatafore — the heretofore closeted gay mobster — was sighted by a uple wiseguys who me by the sweaty S&M jot to llect their protectn money.
)Now that the gay story le is heatg up, the 47-year-old Brooklyn-born actor is immensely pleased, part bee was his ia to make Vo homosexual. “I wanted to make him sort of self-nial, self-loathg, a real gay hater. ”Gannasli’s suggtn was spired by the book “Murr Mache, ” about the Gambo fay, which had an openly gay member also named Vo.
But even amid all the recent gay buzz, Gannasli knows the reactn to Vo won’t be all posive. In 2004, the Season 5 episo "Unintified Black Mal", is disclosed to viewers Vo is fact homosexual after he is seen performg fellat on a secury guard early one morng at the Esplana nstctn se by Meadow's boyiend, Fn De Trol.
SOPRANOS‘ GAY CHARACTER ‘JOHNNY CAK’ KILLS HIMSELF
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Vo at the gay bar. Later, that eveng while makg a llectn at a gay bar, two Lupertazzi Fay associat, one named Sal Iaccuzzo, saw Vo dancg provotively wh a gay man. The Iaccuzzo character was based on real-life Gambo Crime Fay po Matthew Lanniello, who was known to extort and own several nightclubs New York Cy that tered to homosexual clientele.
Vo claimed that his homosexual behavr had been ed by meditn.
THE GAY MOBSTER ‘SOPRANOS’ WRERS USED AS THE BASIS FOR VO SPATAFORE
Lupertazzi crime fay boss Phil Leotardo, a vilent homophobe, mand Vo's ath, so Tony quietly arranged for Carlo Gervasi to make a h on Vo. It was later revealed that Vo was found wh a pool cue stick his rectum, a msage that he was killed bee of his homosexualy.
Phil Leotardo later told Vo's wife, Marie, that her hband was probably killed by two homosexual transients Vo had picked up at a bar. “The actor who portrayed the gay lover of a closeted mobster on “The Sopranos” has died of a self-flicted gunshot wound New York, police said.
JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
The 47-year-old former New York Cy firefighter gaed fame 2006 when he was st as short-orr ok Jim “Johnny Cak” Wowski oppose Joseph Gannasli, who played gay mobster Vo Spatafore on the h HBO show.
Gannasli had read a book about a gay mobster who was an associate of New York’s Gambo crime fay.
Gambo associate Vo Arena had survived as a gay mobster the ’80s.