While Vito Arena didn't have as tough of a time as the fictional Vito did in The Sopranos, he likely would have if he were a higher-ranking member of the mob family. Gambino associate Vito Arena had survived as a gay mobster in the ’80s. Related: The Real Reason Why 'The Sopranos' Creators Never Answered This Question I don’t know if I’d say he was openly gay, but everyone knew that he was gay, if that makes sense." In the tabloids back then, he was identified as 'The Gay Hitman.' He’d had a gay lover named Joey Lee who was about 15 or 20 years younger than him and they’d posed as father and son on occasion and would rob doctors’ offices together. Later on, in 1991, he was pulling an armed robbery in Houston, but the guy behind the counter had a gun too and shot him. "He was involved in scores of murders in the 1970s and 1980s, and when he was arrested, he decided he didn’t want to spend the rest of his life in prison, so he decided to cooperate and testified in a couple of trials. "Vito Arena was a car thief, burglar, armed robber, and murderer who was a member of the Brooklyn-based DeMeo crew of the Gambino crime family," Jerry Capeci, the co-author of "Murder Machine", explained.
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