Michael Franzese - real-life Goodfellas ‘Mafia Prince’ - heading for Hull's Hilton hotel

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Hull DoubleTree by Hilton, in Ferensway, on Saturday, July 23. The show's promoters are describing the event as an "at times chilling, no holds barred insight from within one of history’s most feared and violent Mafia families".

Franzese was a "caporegime" (captain) in the notorious Colombo crime family, who ran the New York Mafia alongside four other crime families.

In 1986, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison on conspiracy charges and later retired to California - one of the few major mob figures to walk away with his life. Read more: Locked up this week - rapist, abusive boyfriend and drugs bra womanFranzese said: “I’m really excited to be landing in Hull and to share a unique experience with everyone as we unearth some of the untold truths of the Mafia.

There are not many people who can say they’ve sat on both sides of the divide between the Mafia and the law and lived to tell the tale. “But I’ve seen the destruction caused by ‘the life’.