Very surreal to hear this. Dominicks daughter Camarie and I were high school sweethearts and I spent 9 years (4-5 of which we lived with Dom, Camarie, Dom jr, Marina RIP and various girlfriends of his in one house in LA and Florida) as a part of the Montiglio family. Dominick was like a father to me and taught me more than my real father ever did. Good AND bad. He was a man who meant well but constantly would disappoint his family OVER and OVER like any addict does. His drinking had been like this since those times. He had survival gilt on two different levels and constantly struggled with that. I think a lot of people are unfair to his family’s these comment sections mainly because of how Dom himself would pass the blame onto them and use that as a reason to distance himself. They welcomed him back MANY times and he consistently would mess them over in some way whether it be financially or emotionally. You people are only seeing one side and that’s Doms side when he’s absolutely shit faced and rambling. I spent many a night with a glass of Dewars and this man and had many talks and he’s frankly just a broken person who really needed to get help but that’s not how these guys are raised. Not to be weak or to show you are human. I’ve literally seen this man cry 100 times about his father in our living room late at night many packs of cigs and scotches in. All o can say is I love the guy, and so does his family however complicated that may be. It’s disfunction at a level none of you will understand unless you were there. Which I was. RIP Dom, I hope that feeling is gone now. Brentyl loves you.
You knew a REALLY good man @ heart….. I am disabled vet with PTSD from combat and I understand where Dominic was coming from. At least in that regard anyway, have a good night. Enjoy the cigarettes and scotch. You have a good one.
Man I feel Doms pain! My ex wife kept my daughter away from me since a toddler in another country in which I was not able to live in. Makes u sad bitter and angry and gets worse with time. Rip Dominic Montiglio u legend!
@@whatsmynamecamariedmontiglio hi there, you misunderstood me, I was referring to his pain when he couldn’t speak with his father and I compared it to the pain I felt when my ex wife took my daughter away to another country. I’m sorry if you thought I was referring to and comparing Doms situation with his kids and ex wife.
My father make mistakes when he was around the life but we are sicilian and we will never turn our backs to him most of what he did he shared with us We never went hungry or without cloths. Now that I m a 50 years old man. I know how it's hard to raised a family. Hw rook drugs big deal. We love our father he is a changed man. Rip Dominic.
I think what Dominick went through with Nino and the DeMeo crew was something that he simply couldn't handle without booze and drugs. Like Capeci said in his book, Dominick wasn't a killer and maybe too emotional to suit to the mafia life. He was a smart guy and under different circumstances he could have made well in his life. However alcoholism doesn't always require bad circumstances in life. One of my friends was a successful stockbroker, owned a big house and a classic Porsche. Had a beautiful wife and two nice daughters. But he drank like a 6-pack a day at first and then increased the load gradually. At some point he got fired and got into big troubles. His wife said that "you have to choose between the bottle or your family". My friend told me that whatever option there was available (even all the money in the world) the bottle would always win. Alcohol is a dangerous drug. It destroys people's lives. Maybe Dominick's life was destroyed when he had to deal with the serial killers and murderers?
@@T.J.Caldwell318 While my life is great, there have been stressors in it and thankfully am not the alcoholic or drug using type. Some people have horrible lives and that is there only escape. I have the compassion and common sense to understand that but an all knowing smart guy, like you knows all. Go back to your magically enchanting and one dimensional playroom.
@@T.J.Caldwell318 people who struggle with alcohol are good human beings who have gone through some sort of trauma and start by using it to numb the pain which leads to addiction.
I watched the video last night and I have to say that I am surprised at the lengths my fathers brain would go to cover up the real reason why my mother told him to leave us alone for a bit. This isn’t something unusual that would happen. It happened my whole childhood and well into my adult life. We HAD to remove ourselves sometimes to protect ourselves from the roller coaster of a life we had and the abuse we suffered at the hands of my father. He was awful to us when he came to Arkansas after we lost my sister. And his actions at her memorial and at my mothers house afterwards was awful. The grandchildren he says he wants to be part of their lives, never got calls on their birthdays or any holidays. He couldn’t even name all of them if he tried and that was HIS choice. ( there are 5 altogether ) Our father lived in Arkansas when my brothers kids were born and he CHOSE to move to New Mexico 2 weeks after they were born. We WANTED him to stay and be a part of our lives and the kids lives but he left yet again. I’m going back and forth but let me assure you that the bullshit he said about him not dying soon enough is a made up scenario in his head. No one ever said anything or accused him of making up the COPD. I don’t know where that came from. When he is as drunk as he was in that interview, his reality was warped. After my book comes out, you all will see the whole story. I usually don’t watch his videos because it’s too painful for me but numerous people messaged me about this one so I watched. It was a big mistake because i had panic attacks all night. There’s nothing like being told “fuck em” from the grave. Peace
I feel your enormous pain. Your dad really needed some good therapy but I’m sure he would have shunned any such notion. Deep down he seemed like he would have had a heart of gold but the damage was done starting from his youth. He had a very beautiful wife and beautiful kids. A shame he didn’t know how to cultivate and appreciate the blessings in his life. I will be reading your book when it comes out. Thank you.
@@andreamarin4296 thank you very much. Each day is hard for a different reason. There is so much pain for so many different reasons as well but i hope that we can start to heal at some point
I relate to this mindset + how everything is taken away,at very young ages. Then,no feelings,no dreams,no motivation,but you must keep moving. It will make you too hard,too tough,too psychologically hopeless,impossible to explain in a RU-vid comment. Praying the Holy Rosary,assisting at Sunday Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass,Confession,occasional Holy Communion,tis our only hope. Way too late for correction or anything good to happen. Wish Dominick & I could've talked,normal people have zero idea. Man,oh man,wish we could've talked!
This man could have been anything. Musician, Artist , Poet Etc. He touches my heart. I wish he were alive so I can talk to him. We could have helped each other . Rip Dom🙏🏻
Did you fall and hit your head ? He was a musician and an artist .. wake up .. decca records , art sold all over the world .. watch the documentary Lynchpin of Bensonhurst before you make foolish comments on our page
I just can't help but feel that the majority of his anger/issues came from the situation he had with not having his father... and having to see him forced out of his life since day one.
Sad story for everyone...I hope hearts can be healed for those who are struggling... a difficult part of this series for sure, please, love your fellow man whatever the circumstance.
I feel for Dominick because for starters Zanax is an awful drug. I took 3mg a day for 3 years and drank hard after a hard day's work for 17 years for chronic injury pain and one day I looked at my then 3 year old daughter and told myself enough. So, I stopped the lot at the age of 35. and went to a pain clinic for 2 weeks and was taught positive ways to deal with my life. If you want to stop you will. It is so difficult to do so and, I have empathy for Domanick. And, I didn't have an uncle who screwed up my life and, I didn't suffer anywhere close to this man. I did lose my family and moved on and, now at 52, almost all is well. I have nothing but respect for Dominick. R.I.P. mate from Australia. John.
I totally relate to Dom, and his feelings and his decisions that he may have made or made , cuz I am a reflection of him. I was mentally abused by my father, I grew up in Bensonhurst, Bay Ridge area, and had a substance abuse problem, and been through a dysfunctional adult life on top of that, R.I.P. Brother Dom ! 🤟💪👍
Oh my god. This is a joke. I can’t watch the video nor can i hear what he is saying but let me assure you, he’s not telling you the whole story as he never did. He was my father and he did have a relationship with all of us ( EVEN MY MOTHER ) until he did what he always did to us. I loved him man and he is still convincing people of his half truths from the grave. My father read chapters of my book. He knew about it. What you guys don’t know is everyone else’s point of views from the pain he caused us all. This is very hurtful
@@tymeseries9792 oh yea. He doesn’t tell you guys what he did at my sisters memorial service because I’m guessing this was after that. There was a reason just like there always was!
That booze makes ppl say true things. And made-up truths, all the way to made-up lies. He's wasted in this video. He was, in all honesty, an addict drunk and his life just warped his reality. I'm almost the same.
@@frankdagod375 wdym nobody at fault lmao, the shit I said to my wife before I got sober was absolutely my fault. It's my responsibility that I allowed alcohol to take over my brain that had just recently been severely injured. While it might not technically be my "fault" it absolutely is something I have to answer for.
Yea it's thegeezer who put this al together Ross brodar yea seems a cool dude He done a movie as in acting prob a bit of it Dom life as a trying Artist Che k it out it's on u tube some where ..
@@whatsmynamecamariedmontiglio I can't begin to understand what he put your family through. It was just my normal reaction to seeing anyone in pain. No disrespect intended.
At 10:36 you'll notice Dom when explaining he will like to know and he has grandchildren he will like to know, he unconsciously pushed the drink away. Almost like a natural reflex when starting to talk about his life & family. Almost as if he knows the drugs/liquor is the root cause of everything that has ended things for him....
Feel bad for Dom. They kicked his father outta his life, he lost his dream of being a musician, his uncle betrayed him, his family left him, all the while dealing with the horrors of Vietnam. Now, he is resting in peace✊🏻
I so realte to Dom when he says he will take himself out. Not through suicide, but from his own actions. I get this whole heartly. After I went through some things in 08, I didn't want to live anymore. So, I pushed the limits and would wake up the next day and be like, "Oh sh*t, I guess we will try a bit harder till I would succeed. But God had a plan for me no matter how hard I tried, God would keep waking me up every day
This guy Ross helped keep dominick alive , he provided him with food and lodging and cared about him but was very interested in his stories . Once he realized who he was Dominick , he made a deal with Dom to make videos about the life and what went down between the Manhattan faction and Brooklyn one . and many other stories. Dom as soon as he started using drugs , as soon as started going down with both families , his real family and the cost nostra family . am sure his last days he got depressed and started drinking a lot like any Vietnam vets , plus his life was very eventful, the dude got exposed to organized crime since he was a kid, he was groomed by his uncle ... He went thru a tough life . easy to judge but wish his should had rested in complete peace.
It’s impossible to understand a man that has seen the horrors of war and the life Dom has seen. SF or SOG of Vietnam was extremely serious and terrible. Dom had tremendous pain he was suffering from.
Unfortunately DM suffered from untreated Alcoholism and drug addiction. He did smoked, drink and took drugs to the grave. May God have mercy on Dominick soul. May God richly bless everyone ✝️🇺🇸.
Post dramatic stress disorder he got from his time in the special forces and what he seen and done in the mafia which we will never know what the extent was with what he did is his business, he's one of these guys that most people would truly love you get on with,RIP Don, your at peace now bro
I felt really bad for Dominick he did what he did because of his upbringing. PTSD from multiple tours in Vietnam as a LRRP SF Operator. He saw and did some really bad things to survive. His story of being on Hill 875 between the North Vietnamese Army and our conventional forces. The war alone has got to be tragic and then he has the street life. I don't know what he's done to his family, but holding on to the past is not healthy. His family will be upset after he dies and they can't make amends. If they actually would read o watch the documentary Lynchpin of Bensonhurst: The Dominick Montiglio Story. That just might explain his reason why he is the man he turned out to be. The past is the past and you can't hold on to the resentment. His kids will regret it if he dies an they don't squash the drama. You can see how bad he regrets the father side of his life. He did what he thought was the right thing to do based on his childhood. I really feel bad for him and to kinda relate to him. He drinks so he can say the truth about his life and to try to forget.
The anger; the sadness; & it NEVER goes away....even though Dom was clearly inebriated here, he makes PERFECT sense of an otherwise sh*tty situation! RIP! 🙏🙏🙏
This is heartbreaking. Like history repeats itself. I am sure Don’s father probably lamented like this about never being able to see Dom. How I wish I could have met this great man. His uncle was a monster towards his nephew.
@@whatsmynamecamariedmontiglio he kept him separated from his father with lies and anytime Dom wanted to do anything that interested him his uncle discouraged him from it and put him down (like a promising singing career). And not in a nice way. I heard his uncle even considered putting a hit out on him. He was just horrible. Groomed him for the life of a thug.
@@whatsmynamecamariedmontiglio don’t be sorry. I only have videos to go by. You lived it so you’d know best and better than anyone out here in internet land. Didn’t mean any harm.
This is a serous guy that did serious things. Hes a good man who has been throw the worst, molded by the MOB. i Realy hope his family get back on track with him, they have to relise he has been throw hell in the SF and the MOB. Ant UK
Hi from Russia. Very interesting character. I definitely can see a movie or TV series sou his life. He is not less interesting than Irishman, for example. Though having read the book, I think TV series might have suited it better, cause most of the interesting facts and life periods were not used due to movie time constraints.
I hate the way people glorify this life....there is never a winner and everyone ends up dead in jail or with mental issues like Dom. Nothing cool or sexy about it. A dark path that leads to nothing but misery, guilt, self loathing and the worst thing of all is losing your peace of mind. I really hope he is not in a place suffering only God can judge.
Crazy irony here. Dom’s father was a drinker and was estranged from his wife and kid by Nino. All these years later, Dom is a drinker that is estranged from his family.
@@chuckwood8452 that is why he made the rounds across the country. He would go all over living with people until he wore out his welcome and then he’d be into the next and it would circle back around.
@@whatsmynamecamariedmontiglio it’s a sad story. Obviously your mom put up with quite a bit, and also you and your siblings. As someone who appreciates the importance of the tight knit family, i can only imagine how difficult it must have been.
This is the real story of ol’ Dom. All the rest is window dressing. For his entire life he was a spoiled prick who did whatever HE wanted to do. As an adult that included lots of booze & drugs. Like any other junkie, he made up or embellished things to make himself seem more important, more significant. The government exploited that in the trial. Another nobody who had 15 minutes of fame by putting his friends & relatives in prison & he sucked you guys in too. I’d love to be able to ask his daughter some questions I have. His wife & kids were the real victims in this, not this clown.
@@whatsmynamecamariedmontiglio don't you just love how people speak for him like they've known him his whole life. How are you doing sweetheart? I'm sorry he was never really there for you, I hope God blesses you 🙏
Making mistakes with family especially children or maybe that 1 women in the world you actually were meant for and yous 2 loved each other deeply at a time, and them just deciding there done with you especially if your an older man like dom was here that’s gotta be brutal maybe the worst thing ever really torturious as a father R.I.p big DOM BE AT PEACE YOUR WITH THEM EVERY DAY NOW
Omg! You guys have no idea what you’re talking about respectfully. My father would leave us for weeks without food in California . He cheated on my mother with her friends along with porn and penthouse whores. ( too many to count!) Pawned all of her jewelry without telling her. . I could go on and on. I loved my father but we have to be realistic about who he really was!She gave him a million chances !! WEALL gave him a million chances and he would just leave us like we were NOTHING. i am so sick of hearing the lies and sick of seeing people falling for his bullshit. There’s a reason that he kept the people closest to him away. Because we are the only ones that know the real him. Period. He didn’t want to be around people that knew his tricks and that he couldn’t lie to. He is as far from a victim as you can get ! Just a chameleon that would adapt to who he was around and only told you as much as he wanted you to know. No more. No less. When i was battling stage 3 cancer, he only called me one time! When the truth comes out and everyone can see the bigger picture, it will all be made clear. I can’t wait . It tells the truth. Period.
@@whatsmynamecamariedmontiglio I can imagine how much it must piss you off seeing all these idiots admiring your father like he's some great guy that fell victim to something he had no control of, which it's actually the complete opposite. If Murder Machine never came out and noone knew who he was these same people would spit on him and call him every harsh name in the book. Just goes to show how fake and full of 💩 people are
Nino Gaggi wasn't good for him....And its like that in families where you have obligations to family members who mean you no good and you're stuck in that family circle of trauma where everyone is eating chunks of flesh off each other all in the name of "This is family. We come first".
I don't like seeing Dom fucked up like this. The guy was pretty sharp & thoughtful when sober, and an outstanding story-teller. I do, however, LOVE the sentiment "I'm the only one who can take me out", though. Wouldn't have wanted him as an enemy in the street.
I don’t like seeing these video interviews of Dominick looking like this! It’s not a good look for Dominick and it’s an embarrassment towards his ex wife and kids! His kids & grandkids don’t need to see this kind of behavior!We’ll never, never know the REAL TRUTH on what happened during the Montiglio’s living in the WitSec Program , this is Dom’s side of the story but then you have the ex wife, his son & daughter side of the story & them 3 really know the real truth how it was living with Dominick plus to, he just can’t put all the blame on Uncle Nino either. Nino knew “the life” was not for Dominick, that’s why Nino had Dom work for him only; his driver/ bodyguard & $$$$$$ collector, can’t get in serious trouble for that or get killed, the Gaggi name held a lot of weight & respect during those times! So no matter what Dominick says, he was safe under Uncle Nino, Dom’s problem was like many other low level WiseGuys, he thought he was gonna make a lot of money but didn’t know how to make a lot of money without making Nino look bad, first with Carlo Gambino and then with Paul Costellano.
@@jimbeam-ru1my ….And before Dominick passed away, he was making all these RU-vid videos of himself telling a different version of himself while he was working under Nino but finally someone understands what I’m talking about! Yeah, I would feel guilty too that I put my uncle in jail and I knew he was looking out for me but I was too damn blind & stupid too see it!! Gotta take responsibility too for your own actions, it just sucks ass that his wife & kids we’re dragged down with him!
There was no RU-vid in 2001-2005 … get a grip. We made a documentary about his life . Good bad and the ugly .. armchair warriors sit and judge .. you have very little clue of what your talking about
Thank you for that. He may not have been on you tube but he’s been on tv since the 90’s. No one knows what it was like growing up the way we did. But you’ll know soon.. He put his friends and everyone else before us. And betrayed uncle Tony(Nino) period. I didn’t get a say so in wether or not I went into witness protection, but i had to do it anyway. I had to practice writing a new last name at 10 and was scared that if i wrote the wrong name, I’d get us killed when in actuality, we weren’t in danger . It’s all built around mountains of lies and bullshit. I loved the man but let’s tell people how it really is and yes, i think it was in bad taste to release this clip along with others but my father made sure his children had no rights to ANYTHING and in turn, have no say so whatsoever on what is released. We are people . With feelings and it would be nice if we were considered at some point in this life.
Sadly at a certain point there's seemingly no coming back from a certain lifestyle. When Mr. Montiglio left the armed services and returned to New York I believe his fate was sealed. Rip.
He did horrible things and benefited from that life and the things he did, but yet you can feel that he is genuinely sorry and remorseful. People don’t take into account- no matter what he did in the streets, he is a hero as a veteran. He protected our rights with his life. He was mentally abused and used. Not making an excuse for him but he was a young man who had seen action oversees with PTSD and needed a place to land. He regrets what he did and he did help eventually put these people in jail. He was inherently scared for his own life if he didn’t abide with the Gambino family’s wishes. He is a complex man, horrible, great and indifferent. His story had to be told. Thank you for sharing! Pray for his family 🙏
Yeah you all need to shut it like you know the guy personally. Save that bullcrap hero veteran crap because Vietnam posed absolutely no threat to our freedom or our country. We should of never been there. If Murder Machine was never published and you didn't know who Dom was you wouldn't give 2 💩 about him and would be disgusted by him.
I think when a good man lives in a way thats against his morality, he suffers internally. Take LCN away from Domonick and he would be a completely different human with much less conflict. Not his fault, his situation ,it's what he knew, RIP Domonick.{edited part}, I'm glad he had someone to talk to in his last years, most men have noone to talk to to get some relief from the guilt and regret. You seemed to be agood friend without judgement. That's big for a man with regret. I wish he found another way to deal with his pain. Love the video, but it makes me sad for him and his family.
