Kenny "Kenji" Gallo (born 1968) is a Japanese-Italian American

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-turned-

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, a former

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and producer of adult films, and an

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. A convicted narcotics dealer on the West Coast associated with the

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and

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, Gallo became an informant against such mafioso as alleged Colombo crime family heir apparent Theodore "Teddy" Persico Jr. His memoir '' Breakshot: A Life in the 21st Century American Mafia'', co-authored with Matthew Randazzo V, was published in August 2009 by

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, and the co-owner of the Breakshot Blog.

Criminal career and life as an informant

Following the death of convicted

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, Gallo was interviewed and identified in the Sunday 2007 issue of ''

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'' as a "convicted Mafia associate" and friend of Harrelson.

Film career

An adult film and B-movie director and producer from the late 1980s to the early 2000s, he directed twenty-nine adult films.Kenny Gallo at the Internet Adult Film Database
/ref> While a filmmaker, Gallo met and married adult entertainment star

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; their short-lived marriage included a ''

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'' episode titled "I'm Married to a Porn Star!". They divorced in 1997. Gallo also appears on the Discovery Channel show ''Flipped: A Mobster Tells All'' and Spike TV's ''

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'', where he served as an expert for the Medellin Cartel in "Somali Pirates vs. Medellin Cartel".

Bibliography

* '' Breakshot: A Life in the 21st Century American Mafia'' with Matthew Randazzo V (

2009)

References

External links

Kenny Gallo's Breakshot Blog Homepage
at

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Kenny Gallo's Hollywood Mafia Homepage

Kenny Gallo's Hollywood Mafia Blog
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Kenji's directing credits
at the AFDB {{DEFAULTSORT:Gallo, Kenny 1968 births Colombo crime family Los Angeles crime family American gangsters of Italian descent American gangsters Living people Organized crime memoirists American people of Japanese descent