Michael and Jeffrey return to their suburban childhood home to remember the mob adjacent days.
Michael and Jeffrey talk about what it was like to live mob adjacent and how the phenomenon was more widespread than they imagined.
Jeffrey and Michael share stories about their father's life as a nightclub owner and what it was like living mob adjacent.
Jeffrey and Michael tell the story of the family friend who happened to be the most dangerous mobster in America.
In 2016, Michael and Jeffrey collaborated on this 10-webisode documentary that explores the fluke of geography and happenstance that put their family mob adjacent for decades. The stories later morphed into their book Mob Adjacent: A Family Memoir
Learn how a chance encounter with a Sicilian crime boss in 1943 put the Gentile family mob adjacent for decades.
It's 1945. Mike Gentile is building a successful future with a little mob adjacent assistance.
It's 1950. The Korean War is raging, and Mike is war adjacent in Alaska, but he finds a way to make the best of a bad situation.
It's 1956. An incident at a nearby bar brings a mob boss to the rescue in his bathrobe and bedroom slippers and shows the Outfit’s power.
It's 1956. Mike buys a bar adjacent to the courthouse, and 30 years later, one customer pays a long overdue tab.
It's 1962. When Mike decides to buy Mary Ann a mink coat, a fence brings an array of stolen goods to review over coffee and dessert.
It's 1963. Mike opens a nightclub on a street the media dubbed "the new Glitter Gulch." Mike Sr. living large. And then things start getting complicated.
It's 1976. Mike Jr. spends time with the mob bosses and learns how people put things in tidy little compartments.
It's 1975. After Mike Jr. makes some bad choices, his father has to go back to the bosses for help, and their help came with a price tag.
It's 1995. The Gentile family learns some final lessons about what it means to be mob adjacent
Jeffrey and Michael return to Chicago's Little Italy with a WGN-TV-9's Emmy-winning anchorman Larry Potash
Mob Adjacent takes viewers inside the Chicago Outfit for an unprecedented look behind the iron curtain of omerta.
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