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My Take
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.
Overview
Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano (born March 12, 1945) is an American former mobster who rose to the position of underboss in the Gambino crime family of New York City before becoming a government witness. As the underboss, Gravano played a major role in prosecuting John Gotti, the crime family's boss, by agreeing to testify as a government witness against him and other mobsters in a deal.
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1. Profile
- 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
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- criminal / mobster
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.