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🗓️ 23 February 2023
⏱️ 115 minutes
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0:33.0 | Good morning everyone. Today's guests we've got, we've been called the mafia princess. |
0:56.0 | That's the journalist. It's pretty cool. |
1:00.0 | Well I took it on my own with my books. Yeah. And we'll plug the books straight away. |
1:05.0 | The mafia princess, that madread juice out in this book a week ago, read that got you on a podcast, that you wrote over 10 years ago. |
1:12.0 | Fascinating story from taking over the families business, prisons, drugs, that you got prison yourself. |
1:19.0 | But my story about the mafia, is the proper mafia, is that how you're mafia? It's not. |
1:24.0 | So you're in Gran Gata. Yeah, how do you pronounce that? In Gran Gata. That's from Southern Italy. |
1:31.0 | And Rina is basically like a family unit. Because that's what they are. They're mafia families, they're all families, they're all linked with blood. |
1:40.0 | So it's all members of family. And outsiders obviously come in, but it's mainly family members that are involved in clans. |
1:48.0 | So you go for generations, my family's for generations of that. |
1:52.0 | Mm-hmm. Before we get on to all the netting, I always go back to the start of my guests to get a bit understanding about them, where you grew up, how about all began? |
1:59.0 | Yeah. So basically I was born in Milan in 1970. My mother was, was English, she's died on foot, she went now. |
2:09.0 | So she went out late 60s to Milan to be in Orpah, met my father in 1970, I came along and within a few months I should met him. And I came along and then she started real, I should know who my father was. |
2:29.0 | So he's always picking her up in different cars. And I said, oh, my father's got a showroom, he didn't enict every car every night, a different car. To pick her up. You know, that was the crazy life she's going into. |
2:40.0 | And then she had lots of bulldozers, sister siblings, there was 12 altogether. |
2:45.0 | And so from then I stayed, we stayed till I was nine and then my mother realized that the family were getting more and more into serious crime. And she was apprehensive about it. So she thought, I want to go back to the UK. |
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