What a society! How could anyone take it seriously?” It was Silvio who introduced Elliot to Steve Rubell about six months after the club opened, and it was already the place to be. Almost from the beginning, there were long lines at the entrance. Elliot remembered someone ...
I spent my life with that guy, and he deserted me. ‘It was a slip-up,’ he says. But I know Sam, and there ain’t no slip-ups.’” So, what was the Mafia, also called La Cosa Nostra, this “thing of ours”? Where did it start? How much power did it really wield? These were ...