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| “ | 200 grand for insulting my wife? What next's, Carmine? He gets to f-ck her for a million?! | „ |
| ~ Johnny Sack, enraged over a joke that Ralph Cifaretto made about his wife's obesity. |
| “ | If I wanted to worry about Florida, I would move to f-cking Miami. You know, wasn't long ago, I remember you used to wait in the car. And as far as I'm concerned, you should still be there! | „ |
| ~ Johnny Sack to Christopher Moltisanti. |
John Sacrimoni, better known as Johnny Sack, is one of the main antagonists of the HBO Series The Sopranos.
He is the underboss of the Lupertazzi Crime Family from New York who later becomes the organization's new leader following a deadly gang war that proceeded after the death of his predecessor Carmine Lupertazzi. He is also a long time acquaintance of fellow mob boss Tony Soprano, with both men having known each other for many years and more than willing to taking advantage of the opposition if it benefits themselves. Despite being a stony-hearted mobster at times, John is also a deeply devoted family man.
He was portrayed by Vincent Curatola.
Personality[]
Johnny Sack was usually a calm, respectful, and meditative individual. He maintained a good relationship with Tony Soprano and the DiMeo Crime Family, despite being from the Lupertazzi Family, often acting as a voice of reason when there were internal disputes. Johnny was capable of being manipulative and cunning, and was able to take advantage of internal incidents within the DiMeo family to further his own interests. However, he was smart enough to never try and put himself in the line of fire.
Unusual for an old mafioso, Johnny was deeply devoted to his family and remained faithful to his wife, Ginny, despite his upbringing, and despite her weight. He was so protective of his family that he was willing to kill Ralph Cifaretto for insulting Ginny’s weight, and was furious when the boss of his crime family, Carmine Lupertazzi, refused.
Carmine’s refusal to allow Johnny to avenge his wife’s disrespect by killing Ralph, coupled with several business decisions Carmine made that took money out of Johnny’s pockets, created tension between the boss and his underboss. Furthermore, when tensions rose between Carmine and Tony Soprano over Tony refusing to give the Lupertazzi boss a greater share of several business dealings he had, Johnny was even willing to have Tony kill Carmine rather than go to war with the DiMeos, which would have allowed Johnny to become boss. In the end, Johnny was still a prideful and greedy mafioso, despite his good traits.
After Carmine’s death, Johnny’s pragmatic personality begins to fade as he is locked in a power struggle with Carmine Lupertazzi Jr. over who takes over the Lupertazzi Family, and he becomes increasingly ill-tempered and antagonistic.
History[]
Season 1[]
Johnny Sack first appeared when he learns that Tony's uncle, Junior Soprano, has been taxing Hesh Rabkin and decides to intervene - as Hesh is one of Johnny's closest friends.
He later meets Tony at dinner with his wife Carmela to discuss the situation with Hesh, much to her annoyance. In the end, Tony and Johnny convince Junior to lower the tax and share it equally among his capos.
Season 2[]
Johnny is shown at a few dinners and poker games but otherwise doesn't really do anything at all.
Season 3[]
Johnny moves to New Jersey with his wife Ginny. Tony is fearful Johnny will try to interfere in how he runs his business. Johnny assures Tony this is not the case but he later speaks to Tony about not making Bobby Baccala Sr perform the hit on Mustang Sally as a favor to Junior which rubs Tony up the wrong way.
Soon enough, Johnny acts as a mediator in a conflict between Tony and fellow mobster Ralph Cifaretto. This had been triggered after Ralph had brutally murdered a young stripper, Tracee, who had been pregnant with his child. It quickly becomes clear though that Johnny is merely getting involved in the feud because Ralph makes New York a lot of money on the esplanade and not because he cares for Ralph. Johnny also callously dismisses the woman as "just a whore". Johnny realizes one of Tony's closest subordinates, Paulie Gualtieri, feels mistreated and takes full advantage to get Paulie to disclose Tony's secrets to him.
Season 4[]
The information Johnny gets from Paulie allows New York to take a bigger percentage of the scams Tony pulls in Jersey.
Later on, Johnny gets embroiled in a feud with Ralph after he finds out from Paulie that Ralph made an off-colour fat joke at Ginny's expense. While out with his protégé Joey Peeps at dinner, Johnny hears Ralph's crew member Donny Kafranza laughing behind his back. Assuming it's about the joke Johnny beats him up and urinates on him. Tony is infuriated by this and scolds Johnny, who promptly reveals that he knows about Ralph's joke; Tony responds by feigning ignorance with the revelation. Johnny is especially annoyed as he attributes the Weight Gain to when Ginny was pregnant and feels she has been trying hard.
Tony tries to fix things by having Ralph call Johnny and say someone made it up. Ralph messes it up by apologizing, which John sees as an admission of guilt. Tony offers to give Johnny permission to kill Ralph if he reveals who his mole is, but Johnny is unwilling to disclose the information. Thereafter both Johnny's boss Carmine Lupertazzi and Uncle Junior offer non-lethal ways to punish Ralph, but that isn't enough for Johnny as he storms out in frustration. Since Carmine refuses to sanction a hit on Ralph for him, Johnny takes it upon himself to organize his assassination.
On the day that Ralph was supposed to be assassinated, however, Johnny is outraged when he finds out Ginny has been hiding treats from him - though he quickly calms down and assures Ginny that he loves her no matter what. He then decides to accept Ralph's apology and call off the hit on him, which unknown to him saved his life as Carmine had ordered Tony to eliminate Johnny.
Later on when Tony kills Ralph in an unrelated incident and other mobsters begin to question his fate, Tony attempts to pin the blame on Johnny.
When Carmine and Tony had a dispute over the profits of the Hud Scam John played them against each other and got them both to make offers that would only insult the other. Johnny suggests that if Tony killed Carmine "all this unpleasantness would go away". When Carmine agreed on a favorable split Tony told John he wasn't going to have Carmine killed. John reacted angrily and Tony correctly guessed that John just wanted Carmine dead so he could take over.
Season 5[]
After Carmine dies of a stroke John fights with his son Little Carmine for control of the family. Johnny Started a war when he had loan Shark Lorraine Caluzzo murdered for kicking up her payments to Little Carmine instead of him.
When his protégé Joey Peeps gets murdered, Johnny is furious and wishes for Tony to help track down the killer. They later have a feud when Johnny learns that Tony's cousin Tony Blundetto was responsible and that he also killed Billy Leotardo, the brother of Johnny's chief lieutenant Phil Leotardo. When they later meet after Billy's funeral, Johnny demands that Tony turn over Blundetto to be killed by Phil. But the situation is left unresolved when Tony himself kills Blundetto to spare him from Phil's intent on killing him in a slow and painful manner.
Soon enough, Johnny invites Tony to his house to discuss the terms of how they move forward after Blundetto's death. The pair are about to reach an agreement when Tony suddenly notices FBI agents approaching Johnny's house. He flees just as Johnny notices this and attempts to escape in his car, but ends up falling to the ground; Johnny is thereupon arrested and taken into custody. It is later revealed that Johnny had been betrayed by one of his enforcers, Jimmy Petrille.
Season 6[]
Despite being imprisoned for his crimes, Johnny continued to remain in control of his mafia empire. This includes having Tony arrange a hit on Rusty Millio, one of his crew members who Johnny feared would usurp him to take power for himself. Johnny was released for his daughter Allegra's wedding. When he was dragged away crying for staying late at the ceremony, Phil and many others derided his behaviour for being womanly. By contrast, however, Tony was notably the only one to defend him.
Johnny's lawyer Ron Pearse floated the idea of co-operating with the FBI, but Johnny absolutely refuses. Ultimately Johnny confessed his crimes to allow Ginny to keep the family assets but didn't give anyone up. The mobsters then all disowned him. During his incarceration Johnny developed lung cancer brought on from his 38 year old smoking habit and passed away surrounded by the family that loved him and who he loved back. Despite their rather difficult relationship Tony was saddened by his death and looked absolutely disgusted when Paulie bragged about how he was able to beat cancer and Johnny wasn't.
Trivia[]
- Johnny Sack was born on the 8th of February, 1954. He died in 2007, making him only 53 years old.
- Johnny is one of only two Lupertazzi crime family members to die of natural causes, the other being Carmine Lupertazzi.
External Link[]
- Johnny Sacrimoni - The Sopranos Wiki
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