The John Gotti of the Russian Mafia

The funeral in Moscow’s 18th-century Vagankovo Cemetery was a blinged-out affair, even by mob standards. Vyacheslav K. Ivankov, aka Yaponchik (“Little Japanese”), was going out in style, like gangster royalty. A hardened survivor of the gulags, the 5-foot-6 mobster was covered with tattoos denoting his high rank in the Russian Mafia — the vory (“thieves-in-law”). […]

‘Gotti’ Trailer: John Travolta Plays the Gambino Family Crime Boss in This Long-Gestating Gangster Film

John Travolta (Pulp Fiction, American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson) has been wanting to star in a movie about 1980s New York City crime boss John “The Teflon Don” Gotti since 2011, and after going through multiple iterations and spending years in development hell, the film is finally ready. Here, at long last, is the first trailer […]