Gianni Russo

Colombo met with the film executives, who then hired Russo to play Carlo after Russo had earlier threatened Marlon Brando, who thought he was acting and was so impressed that he changed his objections and had him hired.

Russo claims that he has personally known three popes, five United States Presidents and every Mafia boss in the United States. He also claims to have had romantic trysts with Marilyn Monroe, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Liza Minnelli. Over the years since the beginning of his career, he has owned a Las Vegas restaurant called Gianni Russo's State Street, dated Dionne Warwick for more than a decade and claims to have successfully defeated 23 federal criminal indictments on a variety of charges stemming from alleged organized crime associations. Read Less