I've heard numerous interviews with Chazz Palminteri over the years where he states the movie A Bronx Tale is not only based on his childhood, but that he was actually friends with a mobster from his neighborhood. This relationship is portrayed in the movie with Sonny and Calogero, but in real life it was an unknown wise guy and Chazz. But who was the wise guy?

Chazz has never said before and I honestly have no clue. Chazz grew up in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx during the 1960s. Does anyone have any inkling of who this mobster could've been? The guy is likely long dead by now but Palminteri has never once named names.