Hey, hey, hey. again. We’ve been walking back in time to find the original story of the Gangster Disciple Nation. We want to clear up a lot of the mess that’s been attached to it. You gentlemen lived it and shine a little light on…
June 6th, 1959, Havana. Cuban authorities kick down the door of San. Trafocante Jr.’s apartment. They tear apart furniture, rip open mattresses, smash through walls. They drag him to a Cuban prison, a former US Navy coing station converted into a detention facility. Concrete walls, steel bars, the sound of waves crashing against the seaw…
A parole officer named Brian Rooney had a habit that his partner thought was crazy. Every time he brought someone in, a parole who violated a man heading back to a cell, Rooney would take money out of his own pocket [music] and put it into their commissary account. His partner, Alan Ryder, asked him…
Marcus Chen had been working security at the Ivy in Beverly Hills for exactly three weeks when he made the kind of mistake that would haunt him for the rest of his career and teach him a lesson about assumptions he’d never forget. It was a Saturday evening in March 2025. The restaurant was fully…
They called it the quietest threat ever delivered in Las Vegas. No shouting, no violence, no drama, just 10 words whispered across a dinner table that made the most feared crime boss in America go pale. But what Tony Aardo didn’t know when he walked into Dany<unk>y’s hideaway that night was that he wasn’t just…
They say it was just a funeral. Old newspapers called it a quiet family gathering for Paul the Waiter RA, the man who built the Chicago outfit into an empire. But the 200 men standing in that cemetery on October 15th, 1972, weren’t there to mourn. They were there to witness the end of everything…
My mother was the queen for a very long time. And although you kind of know that this might happen, you don’t really think about it very much. Not least of all because the monarchy is about continuity. >> A shocking leak from inside the British royal family has just emerged. Queen Camila is said…
The jewels she commissioned and the one she strangely never did. Did you know every British queen adds jewels to the royal collection during her reign? Just like Queen Mary, her legacy includes some of the most famous creations in the British royal collection. The Delhi Derba tiara, [music] the diamond Bando tiara and the…
A young queen defiantly wearing her grandmother’s diamonds while her uncle sues her in court. A duchess whose signature pearl necklace becomes the key evidence in Britain’s most scandalous divorce trial. A princess fleeing a palace in the dead of night, leaving behind millions in jewels. A Swiss courtroom where a $27 million collection hangs…
There is a jewel in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London that stops people cold. It sits behind glass, a sineuous platinum vine hung with carved emeralds, rubies and sapphires, leaves and berries of pure saturated color shimmering as though alive. It is known as the Cartier Tuti Fruity Mount Batton Bando made in…
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