Category: True Crime

From the Desk of Brandy Cavalli: Dear Social Media Crime Bloggers

I’m not here to knock anybody. But let’s be honest—when you’re outspoken, you’re gonna catch your share of trash talk.

The difference is, I’m not just somebody running a crime page from a phone.

I BLOG. I WRITE. I OWN MY OWN SITE.

And after years of networking, building relationships, and learning from some of the REAL crime writers, authors, television producers, and storytellers in this game, I’m proud to officially say I’ve become a featured writer on other crime-based platforms, contributed to book blurbs, and hell—I’ve even consulted on a gangster’s documentary.

So I’ve never knocked the social-media crime bloggers. Never.

But for some reason, some of them seem to have plenty to say about me.

Maybe they’re judging me strictly by what they see on social media. And that’s cool.

But social media ain’t my whole career.

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WATCH: Victoria Gotti Says She Never Knew Dad John Gotti Was in the Mafia Until Her Wedding Day

Victoria Gotti

Victoria Gotti is often remembered as one of the most notorious “Mafia Princesses” to ever come out of New York’s underworld.

She was the glamorous youngest daughter of John Gotti—the man who would become the infamous boss of the Gambino crime family.

But here’s where the story gets dark…

Victoria has said that, growing up, she didn’t fully understand what her father was involved in. The family had a way of keeping “the life” behind closed doors.

Then came her wedding day.

John Gotti

Thousands of people showed up. Strangers lined the streets. Powerful men paid homage to her father. And suddenly, the stories she had spent years dismissing as rumors didn’t feel like rumors anymore.

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Black Women Ran Numbers Rackets Game During the Prohibition Era

Before the world made room for women, women like Alberta Green and Madam St. Clair made their own damn room.

In the brutal streets of the early 1930s, during Prohibition, these women stepped into the gambling underworld and built fortunes in a game controlled largely by men.

And for Black women—living under racism, sexism, and relentless social suppression—the odds were stacked even higher.

But they didn’t ask for a seat at the table.

They took the table.

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