Mafia Wife

When Lynda Lustig met Louie Milito, she was a sixteen-year-old high-schooldropout with a taste for adventure and an agonizing childhood. When they weremarried two years later, he was not yet a made man in the powerful Gambinocrime family. Louie was a hairdresser who dabbled in petty thievery. But Lyndawas so happy to be out of her domineering mothers loveless house. And over theyears, she was willing to forgive her husband for anything: his violent rages, hisfrequent absences, his shady associates, and the blood on his hands. For twentyfouryears Lynda Milito remained loyal to this charming and dangerous criminal-- her childrens father and close friend of crime boss John Gotti and underbossSammy the Bull Gravano. But in 1988, Louie Milito disappeared, murdered by thevery people he had always trusted to protect him.A crime story, a family story, a love story, Mafia Wife is the shockingly intimate,brutally honest tale of a survivor -- and of the life she lived in the dark bosom ofthe underworld.