Will these women ever live down their childhood connections and were they happy to be mafia princesses? November 28th, 1996.
“..I think the media and the press has done the greatest amount of damage to these many..than any one thing that I have read or seen or…”
Antoinette Giancana, daughter of Chicago gangster Sam Giancana, talks about what it was like with a dad like that. She says he was actually a gentle man, and it was the press that creates demons out of the mobsters. Is she in denial?
Linda Schiro-Scarpa was married to a mobster turned FBI informant. She is relatively certain he killed over 20 people, but she still loved him. Did those twenty people deserve to die?
Nancy Nicolson says she is the daughter of Lucky Luciano, and she describes being a 4year old and her father giving her a teddy bear. She has a Phd in molecular biophysics despite her family beginnings, during college having money trouble, and how one time the bank president called her and said are you aware of a 3 million dollar deposit in your account?
Audience questions begin and we learn the FBI did indeed follow some of these women. Ms Giancana claims she was totally insulated from the violence and saw none of it as a girl.
This day, Geraldo’s Television History.