Kenny Gallo

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Kenny "Kenji" Gallo (b. 1968) is a former director and producer of pornographic films and B movies, a convicted racketeer associated with the Los Angeles crime family and New York City's Colombo crime family, and a high-ranking mafia informant against such mafioso as alleged Lucchese crime family capo John Baudanza and alleged Colombo crime family heir apparent Theodore "Teddy" Persico, Jr. Gallo is infamous in adult film circles for his marriage and divorce to porn star and Howard Stern Show regular Tabitha Stevens. Today, Gallo is the owner and operator of the popular Hollywood Mafia website and the accompanying Hollywood Mafia Blog.

1 Film Career
2 Criminal Career and Life as a Government Informant
3 External Links
4 Notes

[edit] Film Career

Kenny Gallo, operating under such pseudonyms as "Kenji", was an adult film and b-movie director and producer from the late 1980's to the early part of the 2000's. He was the director of at least twenty-nine recorded adult film titles.^[1] He was also the producer of the B movies Babewatch 3 and Babewatch 4. During his time as a filmmaker, Mr. Gallo met and married porn star Tabitha Stevens^[2]; their short-lived marriage included a Jerry Springer Show episode entitled "I'm Married to a Porn Star!". They acrimoniously divorced in 1997.

[edit] Criminal Career and Life as a Government Informant

According to published author and pornography gossip columnist Luke Ford, Kenny Gallo was a one of the biggest cocaine smugglers and gangsters in the Los Angeles area in the late 80's and early 90's.^[3] Gallo eventually became connected with the Milano crime family under capo Vincent "Jimmy" Caci, with whom he was arrested in 1998 by the FBI in connection with the Las Vegas RICO cases "Operation Thin Crust" and "Operation Button Down". In the early 2000's, Gallo moved to New York City and joined the Colombo crime family under soldier Edward Garaofalo and eventually capo Theodore "Teddy" Persico, Jr.. In 2004, Gallo became a major government witness against Teddy Persico and the Colombo crime family; court documents show that Gallo frequently wore a wire and recorded conversations with Persico.^[4] Gallo has also claimed responsibility for the arrest of Lucchese crime family capo John Baudanza and Colombo crime family soldier Craig Marino and has published personal photos from his time with them both in Jerry Capeci's This Week in Gangland column and on his own Hollywood Mafia Blog.^[5]