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A noted soap opera actor who has played a mob boss on General Hospital for 25 years will play John Gotti, the late former boss of the Gambino crime family, in an upcoming Lifetime TV biopic titled  The Victoria Gotti Story. Dapper Don daughter Victoria Gotti As per a Soaps.com report , General Hospital's Maurice Benard has been cast to play the Gambino crime family boss in the upcoming Lifetime TV biopic The Victoria Gotti Story. The actor shared the news on Instagram , writing: "Thank you Lifetime and everyone involved 4 a Beautiful opportunity." Little else is known about the film, though as per the website, "It appears to be written by Victoria Gotti, daughter of Gotti. It is unknown if the film is about her or her mother, who is also Victoria Gotti." Victoria Gotti, the daughter, has written several books, including This Family of Mine: What It Was Like Growing Up Gotti. We'd bet the show focuses on Victoria, the journalist/autho...

The married couple. John, stupenda sposa ... REVISED, EXPANDED The late John Gotti 's grandson, John Gotti Agnello , was married this past weekend. Agnello, the son of Victoria Gotti and Carmine Agnello and one of the stars of A&E's Growing Up Gotti, wed his longtime love Alina Sanchez, a physician’s assistant. According to Page Six , the 500 guests gave gifts of at least $5,000. The couple left the evening with $2.5 million.* The event took place at the Oheka Castle in Long Island and went from 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 25, and ended at 1 p.m. on Saturday.

The John Gotti biopic is on again, with a new set of Hollywood backers joining the original producer. John Travolta remains tied to the project and is ready, once again, to step into the shoes of mob boss John Gotti in the long-gestating film, which Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films, Fiore Films and Herrick Entertainment are together producing. The two Johns:  Gotti and Travolta Travolta met with buyers and glad-handed the press at a Toronto event Sept. 11 where he discussed how the Gotti project had become a family project. His wife, Kelly Preston, and daughter, Ella Bleu Travolta, have signed on to play Gotti’s real-life wife and daughter in the Lionsgate project.

"Renee thinks we're gangsters, we're girls... " Big Ang "Big Ang" Raiola. REVISED SLIGHTLY : Most blogs probably picked up on the idiotic "Ratalie" headline and missed the larger point, in our opinion. Big Ang is back! We were concerned last year. As we noted in our end-of-season wrap up, it seemed like all Angela "Big Ang" Raiola did was react...

From left to right: Victoria Gotti (daughter), John Travolta, John "Junior" Gotti and Lindsay Lohan, who may or may not appear in the Fiore Films production. John Travolta visited New York this past week to speak with the widow of the gangster John Gotti, whom he is portraying in the upcoming biopic produced by Fiore Films. Late Mafia boss John Gotti died in 2002 while serving a life sentence. In the upcoming film, titled Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father, will explore the relationship between the notorious crime boss and his son John "Junior" Gotti (who has a "story by" credit, although he didn't pen the screenplay and reportedly sold the story rights for half a million dollars). Travolta has been thoroughly researching the role, according to several published reports, and on Thursday even landed on the doorstep of  Gotti's widow, Victoria. He was photographed arriving at the family home in Queens, New York, and after spending two hours i...