Dana Cutolo On Her Father, Former Colombo Underboss "Wild Bill" Cutolo
Dana Cutolo, daughter of William (Wild Bill) Cutolo, a longtime Colombo gangster, has come far in life in a short time period. Bill Cutolo, with a young Dana, and her mom. ( Wild Bill had two families. That's not exclusive to wiseguys: I have an uncle who had three .) Two years ago, she mixed cocktails at an outerborough country club. Today, she's a successful ethnobotanist and herbalist who started her own company, NY'ALA , which offers a natural sustainable skincare line (see the company website at www.Ny-Ala.com ). Just this year, she relocated from Staten Island to Hawaii. But back in 1999, she was a little girl whose daddy didn't come home one day... Her father was underboss of the Colombo crime family . And in 1999, he drove to a garage in Brooklyn, lost an FBI tail, and quite simply vanished. Pretty quickly it was clear that Wild Bill had been murdered. His Colombo "cohorts" didn't exactly hide their bad intentions. Jackie DeRo...