The real-life mobster who orred a h on a gay mob boss, and whose story spired an entire season of spense surroundg gay mobster Vo Spatafore (Joe Gannasli) TV seri' The Sopranos, has been sentenced to life prison.Stefano Vabile, 71, was sentenced to life prison for orrg the 1992 slayg of actg DeCavalnte crime boss John (Johnny Boy) D'Amato, who was killed when he was outed by his fellow mobsters, acrdg to New York's Daily News.
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- GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
- JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
- THE GAY MOBSTER ‘SOPRANOS’ WRERS USED AS THE BASIS FOR VO SPATAFORE
- MOBSTER WHO SPIRED GAY SOPRANOS’ STAR IS JAILED
- GAY 'SOPRANOS' MOBSTER GLAD FOR EXPOSURE
- THAT GAY MOBSTER TOTALLY DID NOT MEAN TO COME OUT
- SOPRANOS‘ GAY CHARACTER ‘JOHNNY CAK’ KILLS HIMSELF
- MAFIA BOSS BBED OUT 'FOR BEG GAY'
- MAFIA BOSS BBED OUT 'FOR BEG GAY'
GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
The man who played Vo Spatafore on beg the butt of fat jok, gay jok, and the star of a famo gif. * gay sopranos mobster finds big game *
”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.
JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
* gay sopranos mobster finds big game *
But even amid all the recent gay buzz, Gannasli knows the reactn to Vo won’t be all posive. The Sopranos was a show wh some wild twists, but arguably s most shockg revelatn was that Vo Spatafore, the portly po of the Aprile crew and one of Tony’s bt earners, was actually a closeted homosexual. He’d pched to one of the wrers after learng about a real-life gay mobster om a book he was readg, lled Murr Mache.
Sce fdg fame on The Sopranos, Gannasli has published a novel, gotten married (“I got married late, and I said ‘I gotta get married quick here bee people are really gog to thk that I’m gay, ’ so was a sh job. You talked about them rporatg real-life thgs wh the actors to the show, but the whole Vo arc where he’s gay, that was your ia, right? And one of the characters was gay and I thought that was… I was like, “Wow, was a gay mobster.
They’re so homophobic that even the portrayal of a gay man on TV they’re like, “I don’t like .
THE GAY MOBSTER ‘SOPRANOS’ WRERS USED AS THE BASIS FOR VO SPATAFORE
Everybody's havg fun wh Robert Mormando, the gay mafia hman the world learned about today. It's like The Sopranos! Except he only meant to e out ont of the judge, not a bunch of newspaper reporters. * gay sopranos mobster finds big game *
I worked a gay rtrant. If you have a problem wh gays you shouldn’t be the rtrant bs. In the episo where they disver that Vo’s gay at the leather bar, do you remember what you were thkg the first time that they me and showed you the wardrobe that you were gog to have for that?
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.
MOBSTER WHO SPIRED GAY SOPRANOS’ STAR IS JAILED
"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 * gay sopranos mobster finds big game *
There’s a mobster who’s gay and you don’t really see that. Though Green sound terted, Gannasli didn’t hear anythg more about until the murr of a gay Jersey mobster splashed across headl. A gay Jersey mobster’s murr ma ‘Sopranos’ wrers rensir.
Durg the trial of Jersey mobsters, a DeCavalnte soldier scribed murrg DeCavalnte boss Johnny Boy D’Amato for beg gay. “Nobody’s gonna rpect if we have a gay homosexual boss, ” the killer said urt.
GAY 'SOPRANOS' MOBSTER GLAD FOR EXPOSURE
The boss of the mafia fay on which the Sopranos seri is believed to be based was executed by one of his own soldiers bee he was gay and they feared that if news got out the fay would be ridiculed by the rt of the unrworld, a Manhattan urt has been told. * gay sopranos mobster finds big game *
heretofore closeted gay mobster--was sighted by. ) Now that the gay. to make Vo gay.
self-loathg, a real gay hater. about the Gambo fay, which had an openly gay member. amid all the recent gay buzz, Gannasli knows the reactn.
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.
THAT GAY MOBSTER TOTALLY DID NOT MEAN TO COME OUT
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. 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.
SOPRANOS‘ GAY CHARACTER ‘JOHNNY CAK’ KILLS HIMSELF
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 real-life mobster who orred a h on a gay mob boss, and whose story spired an entire season of spense surroundg gay mobster Vo Spatafore (Joe Gannasli) TV seri’ The Sopranos, has been sentenced to life prison. It was after Sopranos wrers read about Vabile’s 2003 trial feral urt that Gannasli urged them to make his Vo Spatafore character gay. On this season’s Sopranos, Spatafore left his wife and kids when two mobsters spotted him a gay bar.
MAFIA BOSS BBED OUT 'FOR BEG GAY'
Gannasli did the gay prs circu leadg up to this season’s killg, and told the prs he felt the wrers of the show treated his character wh the rpect he served. “Nobody’s gog to rpect if we have a gay homosexual boss stg down discsg bs wh other fai, ” DeCavalnte turnat Anthony Capo told jurors 2003, acrdg to the Associated Prs.
© 2006 GayWired; All Rights Rerved. Wearg appropriate leather-bar attire, Vo Spatafore — the heretofore closeted gay mobster — was sighted Sunday night's episo (stop readg now if you want to watch later) by a uple of wiseguys who me by the sweaty S&M jot to llect their protectn money. )Now that the gay story le is heatg up, Gannasli is immensely pleased, part bee was his ia to make Vo homosexual.
MAFIA BOSS BBED OUT 'FOR BEG GAY'
"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. Everybody's havg fun wh Robert Mormando, the gay mafia hman the world learned about today.
Mormando's attorney announced that her client was gay at a feral urt hearg Brooklyn on Monday. Mormando began operatg wh the feds shortly after the shootg, which wasn't fatal, and has left the mob to live "a peaceful workg life" wh his he me out open urt, and "gay mob hman" is a crazy story, and naturally newspapers ran wh . "In other words, even though he apparently nsented to his homosexualy beg discsed the public fom of a feral urt, Mormando took numero affirmative steps to keep om beg discsed the prs—he thought the hearg would be effectively secret.