Over time, the story was altered to suggest that Gosch provided handwritten notes to Hammer or provided his own recorded dictation of his original notes to Hammer.

Little, Brown & Company followed up with a claim that a collection of Gosch's original notes - seen by no one connected with the project and allegedly burned by his widow after his death - was based upon thirty interviews of Lucania by the producer between 19. The publisher later issued a correction, revealing that no such recordings were ever made. The book's publisher, Little, Brown & Company, claimed in advertisements that Last Testament was based upon tape-recorded conversations with Lucania. The book was released in 1975, after Gosch's death. Gosch and Richard Hammer authored a book, The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano, that was packaged as Lucania's memoirs. Gosch later suggested, without providing any evidence, that Lucania had dictated his life story to Gosch. Lucania was at the airport to meet movie producer Martin Gosch and discuss a Gosch script for a Mafia-related movie. Gosch is deceased, and Richard Hammer lives in New York City.Longtime Mafia leader Salvatore 'Charlie Luciano' Lucania, sixty-four, died January 26, 1962, of an apparent heart attack at Capodichino Airport north of Naples, Italy. Or was it something else' The film was never made, so this book remains the only account of the life of the man known as the 'Boss of Bosses.' Martin A. After taking a sip of espresso coffee at Naples airport as he waited for Gosch to land, Luciano died of a massive heart attack. But Luciano went ahead anyway, compelled by the need to tell all and in some way offer an explanation about a life of crime. It is almost certain that their displeasure was communicated to 'Charlie Lucky' with a hint to forget about the idea altogether.

Back in the United States, the new leaders of the Mafia were not pleased about the project that had almost reached completion and was ready to be turned into a screenplay. In preparation for a film of his life story, the famous New York gangster living in a golden exile in Naples recounted the main incidents of his life to producer Martin A. It turns out that most of Luciano's criminal activity coincides with the history of the Mafia in America in the first half of the twentieth century and beyond. The partner of Meyer Lanksy and Bugsy Siegel, the man who created and controlled the 'Commission' and the set down the rules, wanted to have his side of the story on record. Lucky Luciano's posthumous memoirs may well have cost him his life.

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