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Ori Spado Reminisces On His Time In Hollywood

Author Ori Spado

As usual, I awoke thinking. I think constantly and often think of myself as The Thinker by Rodin, actually I had a statue of it on my desk for many years until my arrest and I do not know what happened to it after that. I guess everyone loses almost everything when they are arrested and do time.

I actually think about everything I do. I think every job or scam out completely, and I always put myself in the other person’s place to think what they are thinking.  Some people have called me a physic at times, as I am also quite intuitive and can see what is happening in different situations.  My children just think I am paranoid, and I don’t have patience, but it’s really the opposite. I do have patience. I just do not allow others to know what I am thinking.

My Best Mate in London, Joey Pyle before he passed away with my son Anthony and film producer John Daly

This morning I’ve been thinking about my life in Hollywood. I remember as a young boy growing up in a small town in upstate New York, our first TV was an Admiral. I recall watching the Kate Smith, Ed Sullivan and other famous shows and the entertainers on the shows.. I never thought that someday I would meet and get to know many of them, but it did happen. Some of you may not know these people, as they were famous back in the day, but the celebrities I met included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Don Rickles, Red Skelton, Keely Smith, Tina Louise and many more, even President Ronald Regan and his wife Nancy. Producers and Directors like Dino De Laurentis, Ralph Serpe and John Daly, Heads of studios and several agents like the legendary agent Jack Gilardi. at ICM.  Not only a legend but a dear friend.

Mateo’s restaurant on Westwood Blvd. was the place to go to on Sunday nights and I was normally there. President Regan had to go everywhere with his secret service team, so of course when he walked in it was a big thing. For some reason he would always shake my hand and was very cordial. Normally, he and Nancy would have dinner with Frank Sinatra, and his wife Barbara, and others. Smoking in those days was only allowed at the bar. So, when I went to the bar to have a cigarette Frank would come to have a smoke with me. One night he looked at me and said, “Kid, which ones are the secret service and which ones are the FBI agents watching you?” He knew, We just laughed. I really liked Frank as he was a real man.

Part of the cast of the last film my friend Jack Gilardi casted for me. Jack Gilardi, Ori Spado, Thorsten Kaye, and Grant Harvey, not at the dinner Eric Roberts and Chris Mann.

Then, as times changed, I even got to know a lot of the Rappers and Hip-Hop artists like Wyclef John and Jerry Wonda. Haitian Jack even woke me up one night to meet 50 Cents, and several others that I cannot remember. Whoever would have thought that I became one of the guys in Hollywood that they call a Fixer? I never dreamed that I would become the guy all these people would come to resolve disputes in Hollywood.

As all of this is happening as I was doing my scams I was always being watch by the famous Los Angeles Gangster squad that Chief Parker assembled to rid Los Angeles of Italian Gangsters. And then the FBI organized crime task force in Los Angeles and other cities started surveilling me. There were so many cops and agents parked on my street that if I could have charged them for parking, I could have earned good money.

I always frequented the best restaurants and Hotels in Hollywood and Beverly Hills. I’ll never forget one night as I was waiting for my car from the valet at the Polo Lounge in Beverly  Hills where I had dinner, one of the special agents tailing me came up to me and said. “Spado, we love following you because we get to eat at the best places in town, and all on the expense account with the government paying” Believe it or not, it really happened.

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Even with them constantly watching me, I still continued doing what I did. It wasn’t easy, but I did it. Losing their tail became second nature.  Every valet in Hollywood knew me. I would pull up, give them my car, and walk in the restaurant and right out the back before the agents following me got into the restaurant, where someone would be waiting to pick me up so I could take care of my business.

What a life, huh? Do I have any regrets? Who doesn’t have regrets, we all do, but it was my life and I own it. I feel this was my destiny, I did it my way.

Filed Under: Blog, Ori Spado, THE ACCIDENTAL GANGSTER Tagged With: celebrities, Dennis N. Griffin, fixer, gangster, Hollywood, mafia, Ori Spado, THE ACCIDENTAL GANGSTER, true crime book, True-crime
November 8, 2019 By Ori Spado 1 Comment

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  1. George says

    December 21, 2019 at 3:59 pm

    I met Ori a few times on the Queen Mary where I worked in retail. Ori was accompanying peter James a psychic familiar with Queen Mary paranormal events. Peter produced a dvd called Ghosts of the Queen Mary. Anyway Peter was soliciting all the store owners to purchase his dvds to sell to the visiting tourists. At one time on behalf of my employer I ordered 100 dvds. So about 6 months go by and Ori shows up , because I was from back east him and I bonded . That day he was dressed in a sports coat and neck sweater underneath. So I comment to him geez Ori anybody ever tell you , you dress like a mobster. He never replied just grinned. It wasn’t till years later I learned he was a mobster. Geez I’m lucky to be telling this small tale.

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