Exclusive: The disappearance of notorious mob consort Jimmy Hoffa is one of the great American mysteries and it has moved a step closer to being solved.
The FBI recently descended on a former landfill in Jersey City after a deathbed confession with a man who said he buried Hoffa’s body in a steel barrel.
Deadline understands that Ample Entertainment, the production company behind series including Discovery’s Cooper’s Treasure and History’s Lost Gold of WW2, is at the center of the revelations.
The company, which is run by filmmakers Ari Mark and Phil Lott, led federal investigators to the site after securing exclusive access to Hoffa expert and journalist Dan Moldea.
Moldea has been searching for Hoffa since he vanished from the Machus Red Fox restaurant parking lot in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, in 1975.
He then came upon Frank Cappola, who said that his father, landfill owner Paul Cappola,...
The FBI recently descended on a former landfill in Jersey City after a deathbed confession with a man who said he buried Hoffa’s body in a steel barrel.
Deadline understands that Ample Entertainment, the production company behind series including Discovery’s Cooper’s Treasure and History’s Lost Gold of WW2, is at the center of the revelations.
The company, which is run by filmmakers Ari Mark and Phil Lott, led federal investigators to the site after securing exclusive access to Hoffa expert and journalist Dan Moldea.
Moldea has been searching for Hoffa since he vanished from the Machus Red Fox restaurant parking lot in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, in 1975.
He then came upon Frank Cappola, who said that his father, landfill owner Paul Cappola,...
- 11/19/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Historical dramas based on true events often receive pushback regarding storytelling accuracy, but Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” is a special case. Steven Zaillian’s screenplay is based on the book “I Heard You Paint Houses,” in which author Charles Brandt interviewed former mobster Frank Sheeran about his involvement in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. Sheeran, played by Robert De Niro in Scorsese’s film, claims he killed Hoffa by shooting him twice in the back of his head while in a house in northwest Detroit. Both FBI members and investigative reporters on the Hoffa case have denied Sheeran’s claim, leading some to call out the accuracy of “The Irishman.”
On the same day Netflix opened “The Irishman” in select theaters (November 1), The Daily Beast published an interview with Hoffa investigator Dan Moldea, who said that he confronted De Niro personally at an event in Washington D.C. and...
On the same day Netflix opened “The Irishman” in select theaters (November 1), The Daily Beast published an interview with Hoffa investigator Dan Moldea, who said that he confronted De Niro personally at an event in Washington D.C. and...
- 11/13/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” tells the alleged true story of Frank Sheeran, a war veteran who becomes a hitman for the mob and plays a key role in the disappearance of Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa. “Irishman” screenwriter Steven Zaillian wrote the script based on Charles Brandt’s novel “I Heard You Paint Houses,” in which the author interviewed the real-life Sheeran about his time in the mob. Sheeran claims he killed Jimmy Hoffa by shooting him twice in the back of his head while in a house in northwest Detroit. Sheeran’s admission is refuted by investigative reporters on the Hoffa case and FBI members in a new report from The Daily Beast, published on the same day “The Irishman” opened in select theaters from Netflix.
In The Daily Beast report, writer Vince Wade spoke with investigative reporter Dan Moldea, who has been working on the Hoffa case for...
In The Daily Beast report, writer Vince Wade spoke with investigative reporter Dan Moldea, who has been working on the Hoffa case for...
- 11/1/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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