Seagal went on to be a government witness in the trial against Peter Gotti (and some other gangsters) and still went on to make more horrible, violent movies. The gangsters apparently tried to strong arm Seagal into not only making more films by paying extortion fees for films he had previously made with Nasso's financial help. Needless to say, Nasso and his gangster buddies didn't like this move one bit (no more crappy Seagal movies means less cash for everyone). The bad news was that his business partner, Julius Nasso, was heavily involved with the Gambino family, (unbeknownst to ol' Steven, allegedly). So, the world's most mediocre martial artist decided not to make violent films anymore in the year 2000, due to newfound spirituality. Leave it to Steven Seagal to not realize he'd been working with the mob for more than a decade.
Rumored associations: Gambino family, John Gotti (He) liked to be involved in dangerous things." Though it doesn't seem like Joe got too deep inside the world of crime (allegations of him fixing games were never substantiated) Jack Lambert, a close friend of Namath, put Joe's mob involvement this way: "Joe just likes excitement.
In addition to that club getting busted by the league and skewered by the press, Namath also reportedly backed another mob bar in the late '60s, the Pussycat Bar (yes, that was the actual name) that was heavily saturated with a mob presence. His Manhattan-based bar, the aptly-named Bachelors III, was rumored to be a haven for New York's most powerful mob families-so much so, that eventually NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle pressured Namath to sell his stake in the club (because you know, football players could never associate with criminals.) "Broadway Joe" apparently spent time a lot of time dealing with the underbelly of the East Coast during his career as the Jets HOF QB, a veritable football psychic, and connoisseur of all things fur. Rumored associations: Gambino family, Lucchese family
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