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10-Year-Old Me Meets Infamous Gangster's Mansion

Karen Gravano

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Watch Karen Gravano with Ellie G in this short excerpt from High Tea With Ellie G. Read the automatic transcript below or continue to the full episode.

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it all goes back to when I was 10 years old I went to a school called Staten Island Academy which was like a prestigious school in Staten Island on the hill And I went over a friend's house and her father was like you know a very wealthy man legitimate business I think he was in the stock market And me and her were playing on her front lawn and she's like "You see that house over there?" Which was Paul Castellano He's the boss of all bosses you know very infamous And I was like "Yeah." And I remember the house 'cause I was there a couple of times with my father And she goes "My family says he's a gangster We can't go near that house." And you know as 10 years old I'm like "I love that house Maybe if he's a gangster my father's a gangster too and we could live somewhere like that." You know that was my my my thinking of it You know "What's a gangster?" I didn't know if anything was wrong bad I didn't actually know the the you know the work that they had to put in to get that title Yeah

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