As stated above, while Gravanos book definitley embelishes his ego and surely re writes a bit of history.... It seems pretty plausible that what he wrote about Simone is exactly what happened. Dunno for sure but its prob been corraborated by other rats too
Maybe BUT Sammy also takes the opportunity to "pat himself on the back" on the job he did. he says that Paul basically was in awe on how he did the hit. he also claimed that Johnny Keys told him that he was the only guy ever to outsmart in the mob life
