Linda Scarpa with Boyd and Lucinda

• < Previous Event
• Next Event >

Comment

Comment by The Streets Don't Love You Back on March 16, 2012 at 9:15pm

Scarpa was born to first-generation emigrants from the impoverished village of Lorenzaga of Motta di Livenza near Venice, Italy. Scarpa was the brother of Colombo mobster Salvatore Scarpa, who may have introduced Scarpa to the Colombo family. ^[1]

In the 1950s, Scarpa married Connie Forrest; she and Scarpa had one daughter and three sons, including Gregory Scarpa Jr. Greg Jr. would follow his father into the Colombo family, eventually becoming a capo. Scarpa and Forrest separated in 1973.^[2] Scarpa also maintained a 30-year relationship with girlfriend Linda Schiro that resulted in two children, Joseph and Linda.^[3] Scarpa reportedly joined the Colombo family during the 1950s.

Scarpa was a stylish dresser who routinely carried $5,000 in pocket money for purchases and bribes. Scarpa had use of an apartment on Manhattan's toney Sutton Place and owned homes in Singer Island, Florida, Staten Island, Brooklyn and Las Vegas. His power, guile and brutality earned him the nickname "the Grim Reaper" and helped him escape prosecution for many years. Schiro later said that Scarpa would sometimes leave the numbers "666", the biblical Number of the Beast, on his victims'

Comment by The Streets Don't Love You Back on March 16, 2012 at 9:01pm

Please join us Wednesday night april 18,2012 with LINDA SCARPA
Listen online at www.blogtalkradio.com/thestreetsdontloveyouback
or call in to comment and chat with us 347-826-7273
8:30 PT- Arizona / 9:30 MT/10:30 CT/11:30 ET the daughter of notorious mobster Greg Scarpa, known as "The Grim Reaper."

The Grim Reaper" was a capo for the Colombo crime family