The Rise and Fall of Tony Spilotro

Denny Griffin, true crime author

Former Mobster Frank Cullotta

Tony Spilotro

When Frank Cullotta and I began writing this manuscript we used the working title, Tony Spilotro- How the Chicago Mob Lost Las Vegas. It was true that Tony had made some bad decisions while functioning as the boss of Las Vegas. Those decisions helped cost the Mob control of Las Vegas and they also cost Tony his life.

As we proceeded with the story we knew the original title didn’t exactly capture what we wanted to say. We wanted to talk about Tony and what made him tick; about the chinks in the armor of the otherwise perfect Mob enforcer that made him expendable. We wanted to explain how Tony came to be the Mob’s man in Vegas, Arizona and Southern California and then lose it all and his life along with it. We changed the title, but included the Chicago Outfit’s ouster from Sin City with the story of Tony’s personal demise.

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True Crime/History

Note: Fans of the movie Casino and/or Las Vegas will be interested in The Battle for Las Vegas or CULLOTTA. Surviving The Mob is a true story from the streets of New York.

The Battle for Las Vegas–The Law vs. the Mob. The real story of the era dramatized in the 1995 blockbuster movie Casino.

CULLOTTA–Chicago Criminal, Las Vegas Mobster and Government Witness. The biography of Chicago Outfit associate Frank Cullotta and his decades-long career as a master thief and Mob killer.

Surviving The Mob. The story of Gambino crime family associate Andrew DiDonato.

La Bella Mafia is the inspiring true story of a girl who overcame years of verbal, physical and sexual abuse at the hands of her own family.

Policing Las Vegas. A history of law enforcement in Las Vegas and Southern Nevada.

Fiction

The Morgue. My very first published book is a fact-based story of a medical examiner run amok.

A three-book series featuring a male/female team of Las Vegas Metro homicide detectives Steve Garneau and Terry Bolton in the order published: Killer In Pair-A-Dice, One-Armed Bandit and Vegas Vixen.

Bumping Off Fat Vinny: A tongue-in-cheek story of three writers who want to murder their publisher.

The Rise and Fall of Tony Spilotro

Former mobster Frank Cullotta and I have completed our third manuscript together and it is currently at the publisher. I’ll post the release date as soon as I know the production schedule.

This book will revisit some of Tony’s greatest hits because they are a part of his history. It will also  provide previously undisclosed insight into Tony the man, as well as Tony the enforcer; and Frank will name the killers in several Mob murders that have remained officially unsolved.

Denny Griffin, true crime author