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.

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)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rooster

Origin

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Occupation

criminal / mobster

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.sammythebull.com
• 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

Tags

• New York
• criminal
• mobster

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.