Michael Franzese
speaker
1,097 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
Michael Franzese’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We met everybody from Sinatra on down and they all had respect for my dad and the owner, Julie Padel, loved my father.
and we got that kind of treatment my dad was also in the music business i let him i met a lot of artists when i was younger so he carried himself in that way where people were attracted to him and he was a a tremendous influence on me in that regard i watched him i observed him and uh but it wasn't i didn't want to be a gangster that's not what my life was all about you know i uh
I was heading the legitimate way.
And then I got drawn in because I just felt, you know, it was incumbent upon me to help my dad.
I was also the oldest of the kids, you know, and there's a myth in that life that, you know, once you're part of that life, you go to prison, they take care of you forever.
That's not true.
Whatever my dad had on the street at the time, you know, it ran out after about two years and then we were on our own.
So I had to help support the family and do all the things that, you know, an older son would do.
Well, my dad sent word, you know, downtown to the to the officials.
About two weeks later, a cop regime or captain in a family picked me up and he took me to see the boss.
Now, Joe Colombo had been shot seriously wounded at a big rally we had for the Italian American Civil Rights League at Columbus Circle.
And I was like 12 steps away from him when that happened.
So a new boss had taken over.
He's passed on now, Tom DiBella.
And I sat with Tom.
He says, Mike, I got a message from your father.
He said, you want to become a member of our life.
Is that true?
And I said, yes.
He said, well, here's the deal.
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