Recently ran across a bunch of interviews of the guy who played “Carlo Rizzi” in “The Godfather”, Gianni Russo, and can’t decide how whether he really was a life-long under-the-radar Italian Mafia associate who lived a baller life, or whether he is a fantastic bullshit artist who has considerably padded his life-resume for ego or self-promotion reasons.

Here are a few easily digestible clips of the two hour+ long interviews on VladTV to check out before diving into listening to the full interviews.

From the first VladTV interview from last year:







From the second VladTV interview about 7 months ago:







Notable, the full (10+ hour long) audiobook version of his memoirs that he put out a few years ago is available on YouTube. I’m about 8 hours in, and it makes for entertaining listening regardless of the veracity of his stories.



So, give the clips a go and let me eloquently know what you think.