Frequently it was, you know, ‘say anything you want to, just spell my name right.’'ĪM.com: That basically ended with that article…ĪM.com: Is he still around? He isn’t doing any crime writing. I remember times having dinner with some of these people and they would tell me things I knew was a lot of crap because they want to put themselves in a good light. The research you were dealing with was people like Nick Gage and Nick Pileggi and all these guys who thought of themselves as Mafia experts because they took whatever anybody they knew said, but they were not on the inside and they were fed a lot of crap like everybody else. If I could check what Luciano said, if I would find something in Gosch’s notes on Luciano where he said something that was different from what my research had shown, my tendency was – I knew this guy did it. Some stuff I knew because at the time I was writing the series on organized crime for Playboy. When asked how much research he did on the statements made by Luciano, Hammer claimed, 'I did a lot of research. Take all the stuff and throw it in the incinerator.’ She didn’t think it was worth anything.' I knew her well enough to know, and my wife knew her well enough to know, that indeed, she never discussed it with anyone, she just told the superintendent, ‘I’m moving.

She had an apartment full of stuff that she didn’t know what to do with. When he died she had the apartment on Crescent Drive, in Beverly Hills, and she couldn’t stay there so she was going to live with her niece in Las Vegas.

When asked about the story that Gosch’s wife destroyed the notes, Hammer remarked, 'I knew her very well. While writing the story Hammer had access to all of the notes, which Gosch demanded back. Mayer, and a couple of other studios.'ĪM.com pointed out that the Internet Movie Data base listed him as a writer. Hammer pointed out to that the Gosch name is pronounced 'Gosh.' When asked about Gosch’s career in California, Hammer replied, 'Well, he produced a couple of Abbott and Costello movies (actually only one that we can discover). The two men became at odds, according to Hammer, when Gosch tried to 'rewrite my writing.' With notes Gosch provided from his interviews with Luciano, Hammer wrote the entire book. Gosch contacted Richard Hammer and the two came to an agreement to produce The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano. 'The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano' – Revisited (Part Two)

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