The Cotton Club Murders

[American Dream]

DRUGS, SEX & MURDER: PRODUCTION OF ROBERT EVANS’ ’84 COTTON CLUB MOVIE WAS ROLLERCOASTER FILLED WITH CRIME-FIGURE FINANCIERS

Radin’s murder spooked Evans, according to court documents, leading him to believe that he would be killed next. He sought protection from the infamous Hollywood attorney and mob fixer Sidney Korshak and Korshak put him in touch with Eddie and Freddie Doumani, two brothers with alleged ties to mob figures in Chicago and Kansas City.

The Doumani brothers owned the K.C. mafia-controlled Tropicana Hotel and Casino along with the El Morocco Hotel and Casino on The Strip and agreed to front Evans some $50 million dollars of his $60-million dollar film budget. Behind the Doumanis’ money was some heavy muscle – per FBI records, informants told investigators that a portion of that $50 million dollar investment was held by Anthony (Tony the Ant) Spilotro, the Chicago mob’s crew chief on the Vegas Strip, and his wiseguy buddy, Joey Cusumano. Both Spilotro and Cusumano were on-set during production of The Cotton Club and Spilotro is alleged to have gotten into some form of physical confrontation with one of the associate producers, according to The Ant’s Las Vegas Police file.

Spilotro, small, violence-prone and power-obsessed, was brutally slain in June 1986 for his insubordinate behavior, stomped and strangled to death with his younger brother Michael in a suburban Chicago basement. Cusumano, 83, was convicted of racketeering in 1987 stemming from his activity working under Tony the Ant.

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[American Dream]

In the 1970s, Kentucky became infamous for activity of the Company, a network of illegal trade in drugs, arms and prostitution. The Company was largely composed of former law enforcement officers, and had intelligence resources high up in several federal agencies, notably the Drug Enforcement Agency, or DEA. It was widely rumored that the Company had CIA connections, and that they were part of the infrastructure that eventually began supplying the Contras in the 1980s. With planeloads of weapons and high-technology gear such as night-vision scopes and other James Bond paraphernalia (either stolen from US military bases such as China Lake, or actually supplied by the government, the truth is a little hard to find), the materiel wound up supporting Latin American military regimes, and the planes would fly back into the United States with shipments of marijuana and, later, cocaine. Shipments worth millions of dollars a flight.

...We have David Berkowitz in Kentucky preaching on street corners at the same time Drew Thornton is busting radicals and dope dealers there, in an eerie replay of the Jim Jones and Dan Mitrione “relationship” in Indiana; we have Laney Jacobs staying with Suzy Creamcheese founder Leslie DeKeyser at the latter’s home in Las Vegas, at the same time that she is plotting the Roy Radin murder and is involved with Robert Evans; Leslie DeKeyser is also an intimate of Anita Madden and a regular at her parties; Laney will later marry Larry Greenberger, a famous South Florida cocaine dealer and lieutenant of Medellin cartel narcotraficante Carlos Lehder Rivas; Greenberger himself is later murdered either by his wife, Laney, or by one of her lovers, before she herself is arrested and convicted for her role in the Radin homicide. We have Larry Flynt, the man who employed Radin assassins Bill Mentzer and Alex Marti, attending Anita Madden’s pre-Derby parties at Hamburg Place … and we have the assassination of federal judge John Wood at the orders of drug kingpin Jimmy Chagra, an assassination carried out by hitman Charles Harrelson, father of actor Woody Harrelson (“Woody” on the television sit-com Cheers, who later portrayed a serial killer in Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers and … Larry Flynt, in The People vs. Larry Flynt). When arrested, Charles Harrelson will confess to having been the man on the grassy knoll in Dallas on November 22, 1963; he will confess to having assassinated President John F. Kennedy. He will quickly retract that confession on the advice of his attorney, and he has never spoken about it again.

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