Merlino emerged in the 1990s as the face of the Philadelphia mob. He was a charismatic and well-known personality, the city’s only celebrity gangster, the John Gotti of Passyunk Avenue. He and an entourage of young, well-dressed, good looking mobsters would frequent the clubs along Delaware Avenue and at the Jersey Shore.
Is Anastasia gay? In The Goodfella Tapes he called virtually every mobster he was talking about "handsome", which is debatable at best.
I invoke my right under the 5th amendment of the United States constitution and decline to answer the question.
