Sam Martin

In a Hilton Hotel ballroom packed with everyone who was anyone, my father was awarded…

As the Korean War was winding down, my father was finishing up his tour in…

Dad had been in Southern California for six months and he was just starting to…

For almost five years, my father refused to die so that he could enjoy the…

When Dad was well enough to come downstairs for dinner, I’d start cooking at four,…

I had spent plenty of time with Paul Castellano over the decade in which Jimmy…

Following the orchestrated assassination of Paul Castellano, John Gotti became the de facto head of…

I returned to Rome in January 1986, following Paul Castellano’s murder in New York, still…

Dad’s energy spiked that last winter, just in time for opera season. Nothing compares to…

By the later part of the 1970s, my father was already a household name in…