Various allegations of misbehavior with masseurs are swirling around John Travolta. So the Daily News decided to ask Victoria Gotti, John Gotti's widow, what she thinks, since Travolta may be playing the Teflon Don. To which she said, "What difference does it make if he were gay? Who the f--k really cares? Does it make him less of a beautiful human being? No.... Leave him the f--k alone. Whatever the true story is, leave him with his dignity. In the grand scheme of things, it really does not matter." more ›

Remember when Victoria Gotti had a reality show about her life with her three sons called Growing Up Gotti? Yeah, we barely do, too. But we bring this up because one of her boys, Carmine Agnello Jr., got arrested yesterday for allegedly driving with a suspended license. Oops! more ›

John Gotti Sr.'s ex-BFF is opening up a big bottle of Haterade all over the upcoming Gotti biopic, aka the Greatest Movie Never Made , calling out producers for casting it wrong, all wrong. more ›

The continuing saga of the John Gotti biopic, aka best movie never made, gets one degree weirder today, with the news that John Travolta flew to Queens to kiss John Gotti's ring in preparation for his role as the titular gangster. more ›

The best quote of the day is from the Daily News' mob law enforcement source, who discusses the appointment of the new Gambino crime family boss. The ascension of Domenico Cefalu, a 64-year-old convicted drug trafficker who was born in Sicily and lives with his mother, "marks a stunning break with the late John Gotti's infamous era," according to the News. And the source says, "I think they picked a Sicilian because they're tired of the old, fat, lazy American Italians who turn into rats." more ›

The upcoming John Gotti biopic Gotti: In The Shadow Of My Father is shaping up to be one of the greatest trainwrecks of all time, with enough casting shuffles coming to light this week to make filming Apocalypse Now look like a dream vacation. more ›

Every week, it seems, we're hearing about some new development with the upcoming Gotti biopic and its ever-evolving cast and crew—Lindsay Lohan this, Kelly Preston that. But today comes some news that the flick's producer, Marc Fiore, has somehow snagged the Godfather of them all, Al Pacino, to co-star in the flick alongside John Travolta. Just when he thought he was out...they pull him back in! more ›

Talk about keeping it in the family! The seemingly endless saga of upcoming mob biopic "Gotti: Three Generations", which hasn't even started filming yet, takes two more strange turns this week, as more details about the cast and crew come to light. more ›

Just when we were getting psyched to see Linds go all blond and brassy for her role as Victoria Gotti in the upcoming mob biopic Gotti: Three Generations, producer Marc Fiore announced yesterday that he had dropped La Lohan from the project due to "the various demands of her management team getting out of control." We were bummed, because this seemed like the perfect opportunity for Lindsay to return to her Long Island roots; plus we were kind of curious to see her play daddy's little girl to John Travolta, who's been cast as the Dapper Don, John Gotti. But a few hours later, hope returned! more ›

The best part of waking up is Rudy in your cup: Mayor of 9/11 Town Rudy Giuliani joined Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa on his radio show earlier this morning. Giuliani was there to chit-chat and lend support to Sliwa, who is taking a hiatus from his many jobs in order to undergo prostate surgery. Giuliani, who has been on a bit of a storytelling kick of late, ripped into two of his favorite targets during the visit: Eliot Spitzer and the Gambinos. "This is like having Hitler as a hero," he said of the upcoming Gotti movie. more ›

John Travolta has officially signed on to star as John "Teflon Don" Gotti Sr. in the upcoming indie film Gotti: Three Generations (which was better than the working title: Gabagool Lasagna Bang Bang). The movie has been the passion project of John "Deadlock Don" Gotti Jr. ever since he escaped four hung jurys, retired from the mob, and realized he needed something to do besides being a professional defendant. Now the question remains: who will play him? more ›

John Gotti, the grandson of the legendary mobster, was in a Queens court room yesterday (wearing a Yankees cap!), facing the music over a Halloween night incident in Howard Beach. The 17-year-old son of Peter Gotti Jr. was busted when he and three passengers in his Infiniti SUV were fleeing the scene after one of them allegedly fired a pellet gun into a group of kids. According to the Post, "Gotti snitched on the trigger man," while the Daily News says he "broke from his family's undying devotion to the Mafia oath of omerta and pinned his legal troubles on a pal he knew only as 'Matt.'" more ›

When you grow up Gotti, getting stopped by cops may be expected, but over a pellet gun? The Post reports that John Gotti's grandson, John Gotti (son of Peter Gotti Jr.), was "busted last night in Queens after cops caught him and three pals fleeing in a car after one of them allegedly fired a pellet gun." Plainclothes cops were in Howard Beach because kids were up to Halloween shenanigans at PS 207—toilet papering and spraying shaving cream—when they "heard a shot and saw four youths fleeing in [a car] driven by the 17-year-old" Gotti. The police recovered a pellet gun that had been recovered from the car; Gotti's 14-, 15-, and 17-year-old passengers weren't ID'd and charges are pending. more ›

This Sunday, 60 Minutes will air a double-length interview with John Gotti Jr., scion of the infamous Dapper Don/Teflon Don, John Gotti. Gotti Jr. said he'd watch his father and his friends, "I'd go to the Bergin Hunt and Fish Club all the time and I would just watch…they'd be playing cards…hanging out…breaking balls…and laughing and commiserating. And you're right there and you’re saying 'this is where I belong.'" And when he was inducted to the Gambino crime family, his father "looked at me as a street guy, as a knock-around guy, a bounce-around guy like himself. [It was] the proudest moment of my life…because I was slowly becoming like him." more ›

Basking in the glow of his fourth racketeering-and-murder mistrial, "Deadlock Don" John Gotti Jr. gave a few interviews while enjoying freedom in his Long Island home. He admitted to 1010WINS' Juliet Papa, "I'm a little off. For 16 months I was in a bed by myself and for 13 or 16 months I was in solitary confinement so I had quiet." more ›

It wasn't bumbling prosecutors, arguing jurors, or untrustworthy mob informants that kept mob scion John Gotti Jr. from being found guilty in his racketeering and murder trial. The former Gambino boss told reporters after his fourth mistrial yesterday that his deceased father was watching out for him — and sending him messages on the radio through songs like "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" and Sting's "Fields of Gold," according to the Times. more ›

Federal prosecutors aiming to convict mob scion John Gotti Jr. came up short for the fourth time in five years when a deadlocked jury failed to reach a verdict. After more than a year behind bars, Gotti Jr. was released on $2 million bail yesterday and visited his mother in Howard Beach, Queens, before returning to his home in Oyster Bay, Long Island, the Post reports. "This is unbelievable, I can't put it into words. It's been a long fight," he said. When his mother joked that they should celebrate by going to Disney World, Gotti said he couldn't because he legally isn't allowed to leave the New York area: "I can't, it's out of my district." more ›

During the feds' fourth trial against John Gotti Jr., they played tapes of Junior and his dad, the late Teflon Don John Gotti. They discussed how, once Gotti's son-in-law Carmine Agnello had immunity in a 1989 trial, Agnello admitted he bribed a juror. Junior said, "All the lawyers involved [thought it was a] very ingenious move" but Gotti thought differently, "I woulda never in a million years suggested him to say that. I woulda tell them to go f--- themselves. If there was a church robbed and I had the steeple stickin' out of my ass, I wouldn't tell them I did it." That apparently moved Junior's sister Angel to tears. more ›

Carmine Agnello Jr., son of Victoria Gotti and grandson of the late Teflon Don John Gotti Sr., spoke out about the foreclosure proceedings on his family's mansion in Old Westbury. Agnello told the Post, "My dad"—and his namesake, Carmine Sr.—"did this to us. He decided once he got out of jail he was going to get another life, and he left us behind with the burden. He did his kids wrong, and he did his wife wrong... To be honest with you, we don't consider him our father." (Still, last year, little Carmine told Grub Street he hung out with his dad.) Victoria Gotti claims that her ex-husband took out a $850,000 mortgage on the home without her knowledge; Agnello Sr. now lives in Cleveland and is remarried to the daughter of a "former leader in Armenian terrorism." As for Carmine Jr., he revealed that he and brothers John and Frank are going to be in a new reality show set in LA. more ›

Victoria Gotti, daughter of the late Teflon Don John Gotti, is "bitter" about the foreclosure of her Old Westbury mansion. A panel of judges allowed Chase to start foreclosure proceedings; Gotti says that her ex, Carmine Agnello, took out a $700,000 mortgage behind her back (Chase says she never paid all the $25,000 monthly payments that were owed). Her mother told the Post that her daughter was "not in the mood to talk to anybody" and offered her own thoughts on her former son-in-law, calling him a creep. But Victoria Gotti did tell Newsday, "The house, all the marital assets, are part of a divorce package (settlement) I have never seen yet." The white brick, five-bedroom, and five-and-a-half bath home was seen on the A&E reality series Growing Up Gotti—in the past few years, Gotti has listed the home on the market for $4.8 million, $3.995 million, $3.899 million and most recently, between $3.2 million and $3.5 million. more ›

Yesterday, a former Gambino associate told the court that the late John Gotti Sr. was unhappy his daughter's boyfriend beat her up. "We were instructed to go slaughter Carmine [Agnello]. Find him and slaughter him. Don't kill him," Peter Zuccaro, a self-proclaimed "career criminal," said. Agnello eventually married Victoria Gotti, in spite of being shot in the buttocks and beaten with ax handles by Zuccaro, accused mob hitman Charles Carneglia and Carneglia's brother. Zuccaro was testifying against Carneglia, who is on trial for five murders, including that of a court officer, and Newsday said Zuccaro's stories "seemed like a soap opera about Howard Beach." Zuccaro also drew the line somewhere, explaining why he didn't want to kill a man who lived across from St. Helen church, "Killing in front of a church was a despicable act. Many families went to that church in the neighborhood." more ›

Saying no to John Gotti proved deadly for one man, as federal prosecutors claimed that a hit was ordered because he "ignor[ed] Gotti's invitation to his social club." The feds say that Gambino soldier Charles Carneglia shot the man four times in the head at the World Trade Center parking lot in 1990. Carneglia is also accused of four other murders, but the crime he is most notoriously associated with (but not charged with) is the 1980 murder of Gotti's neighbor John Favara. Favara fatally struck Gotti's bike-riding son with his car; Carneglia allegedly dumped Favara's body in a vat of acid. Now feds say Carneglia "did not choose an appropriate type of acid," which upset his boss Anthony Ruggiero because getting rid of Favara's body was taking too long. Apparently Carneglia's second try worked out better and he threw one of Favara's finger bones in Ruggiero's soup to prove he got the job done. more ›

The NY Post must have a quota of Gotti front pages it must fill each year, because today's big news--according to the Post--is that the Gotti family is fighting over money that may or may not exist. more ›

The Smoking Gun, via a Freedom of Information Act request, received the last photograph taken of John Gotti, the former Gambino crime family head also known as the Dapper Don or Teflon Don. more ›

Ha! Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa wants to take John Gotti Jr. on his offer. Gotti Jr., who was unsucccessfully tried three times for allegedly shooting and kidnapping Sliwa, told reporters on Tuesday that he'd take a polygraph test "on national TV" if the FBI agent who spread rumors that Gotti was becoming a government informant was charged. Last night, Sliwa said on NY1's Inside City Hall - holding a bunch of cash, "John Gotti,... more ›

John Gotti Jr. interrupted his lawyer and spoke with reporters after appearing at Federal Court in White Plains yesterday. Gotti, reacting to a 2006 story in the NY Post which claimed he was becoming a government informant, became angry and said that his family was scared of a possible mob hit:My family lives in fear as a result of this. What happens next? Tell me, what happens next? Does it make it all better if... more ›

The feds must believe if you try, try, try and fail, fail, fail, you must try again, because it seems they are going to charge John Gotti Jr. with a new set of murder charges. The Post reports "Junior will likely be charged with at least five murders," including a Queens man who Gotti Jr. "allegedly disemboweled" in 1983, using a boxcutter or linoleum knife. And that's not all: Junior allegedly got help from "more... more ›

Former FBI agent Roy Lindley DeVecchio has been on trial for four counts of murder, as prosecutors have accused him of being a mob informant. And the trial is being described as a "blockbuster" because it's "one of the worst law enforcement corruption cases in U.S. history." But DeVecchio wasn't centerstage yesterday - news about former Mayor - and former U.S. Attorney - Rudy Giuliani riveted the court. more ›

It's the umpteenth story about an engagement gone sour and hardly the first one that has the would-be groom demanding the pricey engagement ring back. But it's the first that we can recall where the ex-fiancee is the granddaughter of a Gambino crime family head! more ›

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: Airmail in Brooklyn, truck vs train overpass in 31st St & 20th Ave in Queens, an amputation at Grant St & St Pauls Ave in Staten Island and a bomb scare at Broadway and Mercer (NYU) in Manhattan.
• A former deputy mayor under Rudy Giuliani is now an "ambassador" for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. But it's not that shocking, since Fran Reiter had lead the Liberal Party before joining the Giuliani administration...or is it?
• Who decides how subway posters are hung, because this is another example of great subway-poster-juxtaposition?
• A piece of the Willamette Meteorite, which is at the American Museum of Natural History, is being auctioned off. And, no, the museum is not selling it - the private meteorite collection who they traded the 28-pound piece (getting a piece of Mars in return) is behind the sale.
• One man has been arrested in the Labor Day weekend bias attack of Top Chef Season 2 contestant Josie Smith-Malave. The attack was outside a Sea Cliff, Long Island bar; Smith-Malave said that about 12 people punched and kicked her and two of her friends and that the bar's employees, who went outside to watch the attack, didn't do anything.
• The NYPD's new headquarters for the towing division are in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
• Staten Island DA Daniel Donovan is warning residents about the fake IRS "Customer Satisfaction Survey" scam because taxpayers aren't really customers anyway.
• Speaking of taxes, John Gotti Jr. may head to prison because he hasn't paid $220,00 in back taxes.
• The Eldridge Street Synagogue's rose window returns in time for Rosh Hashanah.