Kenny Gallo

Kenny Gallo
Born1968 (age 55–56)
Orange County, California, United States
Occupation(s)Convicted gangster, author, blogger, FBI informant, director
SpouseAnne Kaneko (m. 2014)
Websitehttp://www.betterlivedlives.com

Kenny "Kenji" Gallo (born 1968[citation needed]) is a Japanese-Italian American[1] gangster-turned-informant, a former director and producer of adult films and an author.

A convicted narcotics dealer on the West Coast associated with the Los Angeles crime family and New York City's Colombo crime family, Gallo became an informant against such mafioso as alleged Colombo crime family heir apparent Theodore "Teddy" Persico Jr.[citation needed] His memoir Breakshot: A Life in the 21st Century American Mafia, co-authored with Matthew Randazzo V, was published in August 2009 by Phoenix Books, and the co-owner of the Breakshot Blog.[2]

Criminal career and life as an informant

Gallo was born of Japanese descent in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles and raised in a middle-class family in Orange County. His father was interned at Minidoka during World War II, and became a successful magazine publisher after the war. Despite being an intelligent student, Gallo had behavioral issues at school, and after his parents divorced, his stepfather had him sent to military school in Carlsbad at the age of 13. Gallo was bullied by older students at the military school, and he later wrote that the experience taught him to "to enjoy hurting people" and that "man should use any means at his disposal without hesitation to obtain dominance over everyone he meets". Gallo's father later had him removed from the military academy and enrolled him at University High School in Irvine.[3] The actor Will Ferrell was among Gallo's classmates at University High.[4]

Following the death of convicted hitman Charles Harrelson, Gallo was interviewed and identified in the Sunday 2007 issue of The Sunday Times as a "convicted Mafia associate" and friend of Harrelson.[5]

Film career

An adult film and B-movie director and producer from the late 1980s to the early 2000s, he directed 29 adult films.[6] While a filmmaker, Gallo met and married adult entertainment star Tabitha Stevens;[7] their short-lived marriage included a Jerry Springer Show episode titled "I'm Married to a Porn Star!"[citation needed] They divorced in 1997.[citation needed]

Gallo also appears on the Discovery Channel show Flipped: A Mobster Tells All and Spike TV's Deadliest Warrior, where he served as an expert for the Medellin Cartel in "Somali Pirates vs. Medellin Cartel."[citation needed]

Bibliography

  • Breakshot: A Life in the 21st Century American Mafia with Matthew Randazzo V (Phoenix Books 2009) ISBN 1-59777-615-7

References

  1. ^ Gallo, Kenny; Randazzo, Matthew (30 November 2010). Breakshot. ISBN 9781439195833. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  2. ^ "Publishers Marketplace book deal listing". Retrieved 27 September 2014.
  3. ^ Inside the Mob, from a JA who lived to tell Nao Gunji, Rafu Shimpo (July 16, 2009) Archived February 29, 2024, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Self-proclaimed Irvine Mafioso says cop helped him Frank Mickadeit, The Orange County Register (August 17, 2009) Archived June 24, 2024, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "4/8/07 Interview with The Sunday Times about Chuck Harrelson". Archived from the original on July 24, 2008. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
  6. ^ Kenny Gallo at the Internet Adult Film Database
  7. ^ "NNDB Profile of Tabitha Stevens". Retrieved 27 September 2014.