Gotti: Rise and Fall

GOTTI: Rise and Fall shows John Gotti to be a ruthless manipulator, a Machiavellian master of intrigue and the double cross -- and an ardent womanizer. His rise to the head of one of America's most powerful crime family was marked by corpses, lies and betrayals. In GOTTI:Rise and Fall we use FBI tapes of Gotti and his cohorts, thousands of documents, and a host of sources on both sides of the law to tell the whole uncensored story of John Gotti, who still runs the powerful Gambino crime family from a maximum security federal prison cell in Marion, Illinois.

GOTTI: Rise and Fall also tells the story of Salvatore (Sammy Bull) Gravano, (right) an equally violent mobster who was at Gotti's right hand from the night Castellano was killed until Gravano made a deal with the FBI and federal prosecutors in Brooklyn and became the first Mafia underboss to testify against his boss. Read about Gravano's first crime at the age of eight, his induction into the Gambino crime family, and of the 19 gangland style slayings he was involved in from his first on Feb. 28, 1970 until his last on Oct. 4, 1990. Read about his dramatic courtroom confrontation with Gotti and how Gotti's pals did their damnedest to rattle him on the witness stand.

GOTTI will also take you into the prison cell that Gotti and Gravano shared after their arrest on

Dec. 11, 1990. Read about the jailhouse confrontation between the two men after Gravano learned from an FBI tape recording that Gotti had been badmouthing him behind his back. And read how Gotti revealed in that confrontation that it wasn't the first time he had talked behind Gravano's back, and how that played in Gravano's decision to turn on his boss.

GOTTI will take you into the Dapper Don's downtown Manhattan headquarters, the Ravenite Social club, where, under pictures of himself and his mentor, long time family underboss Neil Dellacroce, Gotti held court at the table pictured below,

and into a widow's apartment two flights up where Gotti held meetings he thought were secret with Sammy Bull Gravano and Frank LoCascio:

GOTTI: Rise and Fall also reveals how the Gambino family boss was betrayed by two trusted capos, Daniel Marino (left) and James (Jimmy Brown) Failla (right). The duo had been part of the Castellano wing of the family, but both became part of Gotti's inner circle as the Dapper Don moved to consolidate his power. Unbeknownst to Gotti, however, both joined in a plot by rival Mafia boss Vincent (Chin) Gigante to avenge Castellano's killing by assassinating Gotti and placing Marino and Failla atop the Gambino crime family. Read the first account of Gotti's relationship with model Lisa Gastineau, ex-wife of former New York Jets former All Pro defensive end Mark Gastineau, and how they were planning to celebrate her 30th birthday by attending Frank Sinatra's 75th birthday concert the night Gotti was pinched in the case that finally brought him down. And much, much more.

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Also see The HBO Original Movie, based on our book.