1. Michael Spilotro attended Burbank Elementary School in Austin, Chicago, and entered Charles P Steinmetz Academic Centre in 1953 with his brothers Victor, Vincent, Anthony and Pasquale.
16 Facts About Michael Spilotro
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Michael Spilotro attended Providence St Mel School in East Garfield Park, Chicago from 1958 to 1962.
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Michael Spilotro graduated high school and shortly began to follow in his older brother Tony's footsteps.
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Michael Spilotro spoke in a dapper Chicago accent and pronounced his vowels flat.
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Michael Spilotro was married to Anne Spilotro and father to Michelle Spilotro Capozzoli, Paula Spilotro, and Michael Spilotro Jr.
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Michael Spilotro had once been arrested for aggravated assault with Rocco Lombardo, the younger brother of future mob boss Joseph Lombardo and Peter Schivarelli, a former University of Notre Dame football player, but the trio had been acquitted.
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In 2007, Anne Michael Spilotro testified at the Family Secrets trial about how she reached out to mob boss James Marcello for help and allegedly was swindled after selling her husband's Chicago restaurant to state Democratic Senator James DeLeo and attorney James Banks, the nephew of Chicago's 36th Ward Alderman William Banks.
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Michael Spilotro first met Robert Conrad in May 1954, when Robert was only 19 years old.
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Michael Spilotro soon became involved in bookmaking, drug dealing, prostitution, robbery, and extortion.
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Michael Spilotro wasn't trying to be a movie star or an actor, he was having fun.
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Michael Spilotro didn't appear publicly with either brother, even when they were alive.
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Michael Spilotro then went on to the first problem: Spilotro, and how things had gone down since he took over Vegas.
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Michael Spilotro was replaced in Las Vegas by Donald "The Wizard of Odds" Angelini.
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Michael Spilotro testified that in 1986 she drove her husband from an Indiana cornfield where he told her he had just buried Spilotro.
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Michael Spilotro became the key witness against his brother, Frank Calabrese, Sr.
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The character Dominick "Dom" Santoro in the 1995 film Casino is based on Michael Spilotro, and played by Philip Suriano.