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Frank Cullotta, a veteran mobster who later became a Las Vegas attraction for his in-depth knowledge of organized crime’s history in Sin City, has died. He was 81 and passed from complications caused by COVID-19. Cullotta was the right-hand man to Anthony “The Ant” Spilotro, portrayed by Joe Pesci in the film Another of their childhood friends, Frank ‘Lefty’ Rosenthal, was the inspiration for Robert De Niro’s Ace Rothstein in the film. Cullotta arrived in Las Vegas from his Chicago hometown in the 1970s and formed a burglary group known as the Hole in the Wall gang.

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The name derived for their propensity to bust through buildings to avoid door and window alarms. Cullotta ran the operation and paid cuts to Spilotro, and also performed other tasks, including murders, at his childhood friend’s request. However, an unsuccessful burglary saw Cullotta arrested.

He soon feared that Spilotro was targeting him for a hit, and so he turned on Spilotro, later testifying against him. The federal agents felt it was the most valuable tool they had in their fight against organized crime. That’s even though they couldn’t get a conviction against Spilotro, who was later killed by the mob, with Cullotta entering the Witness Protection Program.

Cullotta stayed in the federal program for several years, then emerged and took back his real identity when he felt he was no longer a target. He became a well-known figure of Vegas’s darker past, running his own You Tube channel and organizing a ‘Vegas Mob Tour’ and a He was a consultant on the 1995 Scorcese film and had a brief cameo as a hit man. Cullotta appears near the end of the film and puts two bullets in the back of Andy Stone’s (Alan King) head in a steak house parking lot (see it in the excerpt above). Rosenthal, Frank - 1976 Frank Lawrence "Lefty" Rosenthal was a professional sports bettor, former Las Vegas casino executive, and organized crime associate. Martin Scorsese's film Casino is based on his career in Las Vegas.

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Pictured in court, with attorney Oscar Goodman, right, wife, Geri & kids, Robin, Stewart, Stephanie. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Imagest just may be the quintessential Las Vegas movie. (File Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal)Carl Ciarfalio poses with his prop head from an iconic scene in "Casino." Ciarfalio was a stuntman who portrayed Tony Dogs, the mobster whose head Joe Pesci squished in a vise. Sure, it lacks the record-breaking box office receipts of “The Hangover,” the effortless cool of both incarnations of “Ocean’s Eleven” and the titular song from “Viva Las Vegas,” which has become the city’s unofficial anthem. “Casino,” which turns 25 on Sunday, is ABOUT Las Vegas — from the rise of Mafia-built casinos and their seemingly limitless opportunities for skimming profits to the corporations that imploded those landmarks and replaced them with megaresorts that, in the language of the movie, made the Strip look like Disneyland. The entirety of the roughly three-hour movie — the barely fictionalized story of Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal, his longtime friend Anthony Spilotro and the woman, Geri Mc Gee, who came between them — was filmed in and around Las Vegas over the course of a staggering 21 weeks.

While Rosenthal secretly ran the Stardust, Hacienda, Marina and Fremont for the Chicago Outfit, the movie’s Sam “Ace” Rothstein, portrayed by Robert De Niro, was only in charge of the fictional Tangiers. Its exterior was portrayed by the Landmark, while the rest was brought to life by the Riviera during six weeks of grueling late-night shoots, starting around 11 p.m., while the casino floor was at its emptiest.   It’s now regarded as a modern classic, but “Casino” got off to a rocky start. 22, 1995, the film was derided in many circles as a “Goodfellas” retread, considering both movies saw director Martin Scorsese, writer Nicholas Pileggi and actors De Niro and Joe Pesci team up to tell the story of real-life organized crime figures.  

“Casino” opened in fifth place at the box office that weekend, behind newcomer “Toy Story,” holdovers “Golden Eye” and “Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls” and even behind another newcomer, the misbegotten Wesley Snipes-Woody Harrelson action spectacle known as “Money Train.” Despite its pedigree, “Casino” was nominated for just one Oscar: best supporting actress for Sharon Stone. (She lost out to Susan Sarandon for “Dead Man Walking.”) It wasn’t even the biggest Las Vegas-based attraction at that year’s ceremony.

Nicolas Cage took home the Oscar for best actor in “Leaving Las Vegas,” one of its four nominations. “Casino” at least was better received than 1995’s other major Las Vegas movie: “Showgirls.” One of the most thoughtful critics of “Casino” was Rosenthal himself, who died in 2008. “The screen version of ‘Casino’ is a mixed bag,” he wrote on his still functioning website,

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“I couldn’t break down the degree of accuracy (non-fiction) versus dramatic license. The characters were well played, many of the scenes and events are relatively on target.” Rosenthal had nothing but praise for De Niro and Pileggi, the latter of whom he wrote understood the characters better than Scorsese. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Imagest was one of the highlights of my life,” Oscar Goodman says of his time on set, portraying himself, in “Casino.” Considering the life the former mayor has lived, that’s high praise, indeed. “While some of the timelines are askew, and events portrayed in the film were written for ‘The Big Screen,’ ” he wrote, “the film ‘Casino’ gives it’s (sic) audience a fact based snapshot of events and people behind the scenes from the ‘Good Old Days’ in Las Vegas.” Oscar Goodman stands at the dining room table where he and his wife, Carolyn, hosted a meal for Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Sharon Stone and Nick Pillegi. During his years as an attorney, Goodman counted Frank Rosenthal and Tony Spilotro among his regular clients. He represented Geri Rosenthal, on occasion, as well. When screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi was researching what would become both the movie and the book, “Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas,” he met up with Goodman at a speaking engagement in California and rode with him back to Las Vegas. Goodman introduced the writer to Rosenthal, and the interviews that followed — during which the casino executive opened up about his personal life in ways he never did to Goodman — would form the backbone of “Casino” and Robert De Niro’s portrayal of Sam “Ace” Rothstein. “The thing I was most surprised about — and a lot of people doubt me when I tell them this honest-to-God truth — I had no idea — assuming it’s true, because I don’t have any personal knowledge — that there was any relationship between Tony Spilotro and Geri Rosenthal, particularly an amorous one,” says Goodman, 81.

“I would have bet a billion dollars that that was not taking place.” He never saw a hint of that, Goodman insists, not even when the Rosenthals were in his office discussing the dissolution of their marriage. “When you represent somebody and they’re in trouble all the time — and these two fellas were in trouble all the time — you spend a tremendous amount of time with them, talking about everything,” Goodman says.