Mobster Targeted After Marilyn Monroe Mention
A notorious New York mobster was pursued by federal authorities following claims that Marilyn Monroe named him during a meeting with Robert F. Kennedy, according to his son.
Michael Franzese, a former captain of the Colombo crime family, discussed these revelations on the podcast “Hangout with Sean Hannity.” He recounted explosive statements from his late father, John “Sonny” Franzese, who was an underboss in the family.
Franzese claimed that Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy instructed FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to focus on his father after Monroe allegedly brought up the mob during a personal meeting with Kennedy. Sonny had reportedly claimed to have had an affair with Monroe after they met at the Stork Club in Manhattan.
“Right now, my dad is saying to me, ‘Yeah, she’s with Bobby Kennedy,'” Franzese recounted about Monroe. “And he said, ‘One night we were having fun and she screamed my name.’
He also mentioned how Kennedy allegedly called Hoover, who expressed confusion about who Sonny was but requested action against him. Franzese noted that his father shared this story only after his mother passed away in 2012, a decision he respected.
“I said, ‘Why you? There were other more prominent figures around, like Colombo and Genovese,'” he recounted. “The first time I asked him about it, he said, ‘I didn’t want to tell you while your mother was alive, because I have respect for her.’
Reflecting on the situation now, Franzese remarked that the allegations targeting his father almost made sense. He stated, “I said, ‘Dad, I know you’re dramatizing things a little bit, but it kind of makes sense.’ J. Edgar Hoover never acknowledged the Mafia’s existence, after all we had something on him.”
Sonny Franzese, arrested in 1967 for bank robbery orchestrations, received a 50-year federal sentence but was paroled later. He faced another prison sentence in 2011 for racketeering conspiracy and passed away in 2020 at age 103. Michael Franzese also highlighted a gas tax scheme that generated millions weekly, with his family personally pocketing around $3 million to $4 million a week.
