in my reading of the mob, and looking at pics, I ran across a pic taken in the thirties of joe DiMaggio with "Richie the boot Boiardo" powerful new jersey boss, also in the book "five families" selwyn raab says that on the day of albert Anastasia's murder joe DiMaggio was in a hotel with him and santos trafficane.to what extent was joe DiMaggio's mob ties? anyone??

A lot of celebrities, Italian and not Italian used to take pictures and be around Boot Boiardo, I have knowledge of it going on in the 50's as well. I don't know how he had the connections but he did, in the 50's his son Tony Boy ran a high end club/restaurant type place, I forget the name of it, but he and his son are posing with numerous celebs from pictures from inside the place during the time it was open. I think Sinatra may have even been one of them.

I know Richie "the boot" was one powerful guy. read somewhere he had a creamotorium on his jersey property.

I remember that he was very close friend with Giancana. They used to go on vacation together, there are numreous reports of telephone contacts between the two and every time DiMaggio visited town, Giancana would sent a mile long limo for the sport star. Giancana probably used him, same as Sinatra, as a messenger between the crime boss and political figures like you know who

It was an industrial sized furnace. And in many of the Gyp De Carlo transcripts, he and others are overheard talking about it, and guys being scared to the death to go up to his house, especially using the path that led to the space where the furnace was at, as they had no idea if they'd be coming back.

I forget if I read it or saw it on a tv program but it said that DiMaggio was holding a big chunk of cash for some wiseguy, I forget who it was now and then the guy got killed and DiMaggio denied holding the money and kept it !!

Probably not much, other than mob guys screwing Marilyn Monroe while he was married to her. Joe beat Marilyn frequently, including on the very night she took the famous photo where the steam blows up her dress. Joe was, as Marilyn described him in the HBO movie Rat Pack, a fuddy duddy. I suppose he might have met some of the Lanza guys in SF, considering he was from their neighborhood, North Beach.

wow! how did joe know he wouldn't get whacked?

yeah, I read the book "joe and marylin" and brother did she sleep around. I mean it was bad.... when she was going with him, and even when they were married she was banging somebody else besides him. in the book it mentions that joe bought up copies of a porn flick she made with an agent named johnny hyde. said it cost joe plenty, but, he got the movie, and burned it,boy, did joe go through a lot with her,

" Cramer documented his information with multiple sources, including retired mobsters from that era. He also reveals tales of DiMaggio's connections with the New Jersey mob, particularly the notorious Abner (Longy) Zwillman and Richie (The Boot) Boiardo, who controlled the first ward in Newark. "Longy had three boxes of cash which he left at Joe's house for 'safekeeping,'" Cramer said. "But when Longy was found hanging from his chandelier in West Orange, Joe kept the cash.

On the diamond, Joe was a hall of famer. In the underworld, he couldn't hit the curve ball.