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Former Food Network host and celebrity chef David Ruggerio has come out with a startling revelation – he had a secret life as a made man in the mafia, participating in several murders, drug dealing, extortion, fraud and other crimes.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Ruggerio candidly talked about his life in the mob, even as he rose in the ranks of New York’s culinary world. He was running such posh Manhattan restaurants as La Caravelle, Maxim’s, and Le Chantilly, and had his own Food Network show, “Ruggerio to Go.” He also appeared on PBS and has several books, both cookbooks and fiction.
Ruggerio’s life of crime began when he was just 11-years-old. His Sicilian father, Saverio Erasmo Gambino, was a cousin of Carlo Gambino, the infamous “boss of all bosses” and the leader of the Five Families who dominated the rackets in New York in the 1960s and 1970s.
His father took him to Sicily in 1977 where he was made by Santo Inzerillo, the brother of Palermo boss Totuccio Inzerillo, Ruggerio said. He was inducted under his birth name, Sabatino Antonino Gambino.
He became part of a crew run by Carmine Lombardozzi, who was known as the ‘King of Wall Street’ for his stock pump and dump schemes. Lombardozzi wanted all of his crew to have legitimate day jobs to deter suspicion from law enforcement. That led Ruggerio to the kitchen at La Caravelle, then one of the top French restaurants in the city.
Ruggerio was not an unknown cook. He had Ruggerio spent time in France at some of that country’s leading restaurants. learning the craft under big names as Jacques Maximin,, Paul Bocuse and Michel Guerand.
But when he returned to the US, he once again got involved in crime.
“I was living two lives,” Ruggerio, now 59, told Vanity Fair. “I did
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