Sonny Franzese
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John "Sonny" Franzese Sr. was an American mobster who was a longtime member and former underboss of the Colombo crime family.
Undated mugshot of Franzese
Franzese (left) with boxer Rocky Graziano (center) and Sebastian Aloi (right) in the 1940s
FBI surveillance photo of Franzese and his son John Franzese Jr. in 2005
Michael Franzese
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Michael Franzese Sr. is an American former mobster who was a caporegime in the Colombo crime family in New York City, and son of former underboss Sonny Franzese. Franzese was enrolled in a pre-med pro
Sonny Franzese
…three children. While married, John had gotten Cristina Capobianco, a 16-year-old cigarette girl at the Stork Club in Manhattan, pregnant with his son Michael Franzese. Capobianco then married Frank Grillo, to avoid having a scandal surrounding having a child out of wedlock. After the mob allowed John to divorce his…
Franzese in 2009