57. Mafia Princess

The Secret Room | True Stories

Ben Hamm

Storytelling, Personal Journals, Story, Podcast, Stories, True, Society & Culture

4.4 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Sally joins us from Athens to tell us about her love affair with a Mafia kingpin in the early 90s. Hear the surprising way her romance started, what it was like inside the syndicate and how she got out.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Okay, I welcome to the secret room. What's your secret?
0:03.5	My mother is a hoarder and she hoards things and cats.
0:10.6	You can walk up to the door and smell the urine.
0:13.8	I won't even bring my husband over there.
0:16.0	It's so gross and I'm so embarrassed so that I can't even tell him.
0:30.0	Test 1-2.
0:34.2	Welcome to the secret room.
0:39.2	Tell me when you're ready.
0:40.2	Hey, I said, okay.
0:42.3	Hey, everyone, it's Ben.
0:43.5	Today, my guest joins us from Athens.
0:48.0	The same city where her secret went down 27 years ago.
0:51.5	Hi, my name is Sally.
0:53.5	My secret is that I dated a mafia kingpin.
0:57.2	Sally gives a size inside a 1990s Greek crime syndicate and tells her first-hand account
1:02.2	of the man who ran it.
1:03.3	I was 22.
1:05.0	Take me back to before any of this ever happened.
1:08.6	My life was in Athens, Greece.
1:12.2	I was a college student studying child criminal psychology.
1:17.4	Went to a very elite university.
1:20.2	500 students in the entire school.
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