SUCK-UP SINATRA EXPOSED AS MAFIA MULE!
GANGSTER fanboy Frank Sinatra served as a faithful bagman for the Mafia despite a lifetime of defiantly denying any ties to organized crime, a new book reveals!
The Italian-American singing idol — who died in 1998 at age 82 — helped arrange President John F. Kennedy’s dicey affair with mobster moll Judith Exner and personally ferried $2 million in cash to Cuba, among other shocking favors Frank fulfilled for crime families, say biographers Douglas Thompson and Mike Rothmiller.
Among the shocking revelations in Frank Sinatra and the Mafia Murders, Ol’ Blue Eyes was “enthralled” by murderous Las Vegas kingpin Bugsy Siegel and “would brag about Bugsy and what he had done and how many people he killed.”
He also loved cozying up to heinous hitmen and acting as their money mule, the authors write.
The new book nails down another rumor that swirled all through Sinatra’s meteoric rise — that the Mafia invested $50,000 in Frankie’s career early on, even shaking down Hollywood bigs to snag their boy his Oscar-winning role in the 1953 movie From Here to Eternity. Gangsters reaped the payback for decades to come as Sinatra helped them make good on schemes.
But the My Way singer was “extremely sensitive to the point of paranoia” about his connections to organized crime, even though racketeers were “very much part of his world,” say the authors, who call Sinatra the Mafia’s “puppet patsy” and a “regular courier” because customs officials were too in awe to ask him to open his luggage!