David Ruggerio, 59, who once ran the kitchens of top Manhattan restaurants La Caravelle, Maxim’s and Le Chantilly, came clean with the shocking admission in an interview with Vanity Fair published on Thursday. Though it was not widely known, Ruggerio had ties to the Gambino family from his birth in 1962 in Brooklyn. Now, though he refuses to speak about the crimes of any other living mafioso, Ruggerio is breaking the seal of omerta, the mob’s code of silence, saying he regrets his life of crime. Ruggerio said they left Macchirole’s corpse in a car trunk in Brooklyn. I didn’t want to be a criminal. The most shocking confessions in the lengthy article concern several mob murders that Ruggerio says he participated in. As he lived a secret double life, few realized that he was actually blood related to the ‘boss of bosses’ Carlo Gambino — though the FBI was not unaware of his ties, particularly after he hosted the ‘Teflon Don’ John Gotti’s 50th birthday party in Maxim’s luxurious dining room. Ruggerio’s birth name was Sabatino Antonino Gambino, and his Sicilian-born father Saverio Gambino was cousin to notorious mob boss Carlo Gambino. He recalled that the ceremony took place in the basement of a café in Castellammare del Golfo, his family’s ancestral village, where a man used a needle to tattoo a fiery cross on his right shoulder, along with the words Uomo de Fiducia, Italian for ‘man of trust’. He said that in March 1978, he helped Gambino capo Egidio ‘Ernie Boy’ Onorato torture and kill a 56-year-old Genovese and Colombo associate named Pasquale ‘Paddy Mac’ Macchirole at a tire repair garage in Yonkers, New York. I was living two lives,’ Ruggerio said in the interview. Ruggerio — a former Food Network star who largely dropped out of sight after a 1998 arrest on credit card fraud charges — admitted in the interview to a staggering range of mob crimes, including heroin dealing, truck hijackings, loan-sharking, bookmaking, extortion, and even participating in gangland murders. I want you to understand that. I wouldn’t have wished my life on anyone. Ernie was younger than my father and weighed about 155 pounds, but he was the most ruthless gangster I ever saw,’ Ruggerio told the magazine. Ruggerio said that in 1977, when he was just a teenager, his father took him to Sicily to become a ‘made man’. The nights are very long and filled with nightmares,’ he told Vanity Fair. In another shocking incident in the summer of 1980, Ruggerio says that he watched as Onorato beat his friend Joey ‘Skeetch’ Cannizzaro, a 22-year-old aspiring comedian, with a lead pipe. I hate to sleep. Ruggerio said that Onorato, who died in 1999, was enraged because Cannizzaro had circumcised himself to please a Jewish girlfriend and was wearing his severed foreskin on a gold chain around his neck.

Ernie picked up the lead pipe and he went berserk. Lombardozzi had a strict rule for his crew — they all had to take legitimate day jobs to deter suspicion from law enforcement, which led to Ruggerio taking a job in the kitchen at La Caravelle, then one of the top French restaurants in the city. The violent incidents led Ruggerio to split with Onorato’s crew and work for another Gambino capo, Carmine Lombardozzi, known as the ‘King of Wall Street’ for his stock pump and dump schemes. He beat this kid to the point where you couldn’t recognize him anymore. That’s when I heard Skeetch moaning. I would often go with guys to small stock brokerages that Carmine had and lean on brokers,’ Ruggerio recalled. But to really, truly be in the streets, you gotta have a black heart. Ruggerio landed TV deals in the 90s with PBS and the Food Network, but it all came crashing down in 1998, when he was charged with stealing $190,000 from a credit card company by falsifying credit card receipts for payment. I’m done,’ ‘ Ruggerio told Vanity Fair. When you turn that switch, there can be no emotion. In October 1990, the notorious Gambino boss John Gotti asked Ruggerio to cater his 50th birthday at Maxim’s. He put the pipe an inch from my face. So we started wrapping Skeetch’s body in an old rug,’ he told the magazine. Now, he says he regrets his life of crime, and is working on a memoir. You have no pity. It was dripping blood. Though Ruggerio denies the charge to this day, on his attorney’s advice he took a plea deal and served probation and community service. Following the scandal, Ruggerio lost his restaurants, his TV deal, and drifted out of the public eye, quietly operating a doughnut shop and other small ventures. I did things when I was pushed that I’m not proud of,’ he said. Prosecutors said he falsified credit card payments by inflating the tips left by 26 customers at his restaurant, in one case by as much as $30,000. Ruggerio never told his restaurant co-workers about his mafia ties, trying to keep his two worlds separate. He would later run the kitchen of French fashion designer Pierre Cardin’s New York outpost of Maxim’s as well as Le Chantilly, where he became part-owner with Gambino capo Daniel Marino. But he continued his work for the crime family on the side. Ruggerio says he covered over the windows so FBI agents surveilling Gotti couldn’t peep inside to see the gathering of 25 of the city’s most powerful gangsters. Ernie whirled around and I thought, I’m getting killed next,’ Ruggerio recalled. But after his son, who aspired to the gangster life, died in 2014 of a drug overdose, Ruggerio says he hit his limit when his longtime mafia partner Marino declined to attend the funeral service. Turns out he was alive,’ said Ruggerio, admitting that he then weighed Cannizzaro’s body down with lead window sashes and dumped him in the waters near Sheepshead Bay.

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Taylor Swift worked her charm on beau Travis Kelce’s parents, Donna and Ed, while attending his game on Thursday. I was in the boxes with her. Her famous friends – including Gigi Hadid, Jennifer Lawrence, and Nicole Kidman – have rocked the colorful beaded bracelets to her tour, after they received them from loyal fans at her shows. It’s just one of those things where everyone saw me. Tight lipped: She continued, ‘I don’t like to talk about it. The superstar was also seen chatting to Travis’ father for the first time, as she enjoyed her third Kansas City Chiefs game this season. His number one fan! TAYLOR SWIFT TALKING TO PAPA KELCE! The friendship bracelets are also meaningful to Travis and Taylor. It’s just one of those things where everyone saw me. I was in the boxes with her. The pair appeared deep in conversation at the event and both wore red in support of Travis and his team. Swift popularized the child-like accessories as she previously encouraged fans to ‘make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it’ in her ‘You’re on Your Own, Kid’ song from Midnights, inspiring Swifties to do exactly that. Donna was given the bracelet by Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb during an appearance on the TODAY show, where some fans believed she shaded the singer. It was during that conversation that Donna received the bracelet she wore to the game. In July, he revealed that he attempted to give Taylor a friendship bracelet with his phone number on it during her Kansas City stop on The Eras Tour. She continued: ‘I don’t like to talk about it. The 34-year-old athlete’s mom rocked a number of colorful friendship bracelets on her wrist – the same type of beaded accessories that have been a staple at Swift’s Eras tour.

The Grammy winner also shared an arm full of friendship bracelets to her Instagram in 2019, ahead of the release of her Lover album. It all started after her grand arrival at the premiere of her highly-anticipated Eras Tour concert film in Los Angeles Wednesday, where she was photographed rocking a wavy blonde bob. The singer showed off her toned legs in a black mini dress and finalized her look with a black tank top and black boots. You have got a lot of people that care about Taylor, for good reason. The night prior Swift fans had a massive meltdown on social media as they debated whether or not the pop idol has made the shock decision to ditch her long locks. The star also proved that she did not cut her hair, after she sent her fans into a meltdown the night prior by wearing a pinned bob to her Eras Tour film premiere in Los Angeles. The beauty accessorized with a gold chainlink necklace and matching simple earrings. She then jetted off to New York the following weekend to watch Kansas City defeat the Jets on a Sunday night. As all the attention comes, it feels like, you know – I was on top of the world after the Super Bowl and right now even more on top of the world now,’ he said. As for glam, Swift sported her signature red lip and a touch of bronzer. Swift was Kelce’s biggest cheerleader at the sporting event, wearing a stylish oversized red, white and black Chiefs windbreaker jacket. Despite the recent shade, Travis’ mom seemed to enjoy Swift’s company, laughing it up as the singer whispered something in her ear. Last Friday, ahead of the game against the Vikings where Kelce got hurt, he said his romance with Swift has left him feeling happier than when he won the Super Bowl earlier this year. At the game, the pop star took her seat in a box next to Donna. Once the photos made their way online, the Swifties set Elon Musk’s X ablaze as they sent ‘DID SHE CUT HER HAIR’ to the top of the site’s Trending Topics list.