Sammy Gravano

Gravano is a figure I can't endorse but can't look away from either. Rising to underboss of the Gambino family and then flipping to testify against John Gotti makes him one of the most consequential informants in American organized-crime history. What interests me isn't glamour, because there's nothing to admire in the violence; it's the sheer moral whiplash of a man who lived by omertà and then dismantled it from the inside. He's a window into how loyalty, survival, and self-interest collide. As a character study in human contradiction, few real lives are this unsettling or this revealing.

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Name (English)

Sammy Gravano

Name (Japanese)

サルヴァトーレ・グラヴァーノ

Reading

さるゔぁとーれ・ぐらゔぁーの

Born

March 12, 1945 (age 81)

Origin

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Occupation

criminal / mobster

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rooster

• Official sitehttps://www.sammythebull.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy%20Gravano
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%AB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q923645

Tags

• New York
• criminal
• mobster

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.