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- In 2002, Mr. Nasso sued Mr. Seagal for $60 million, accusing the actor of backing out of a four-movie deal. A few months later, Mr. Nasso was indicted on charges of conspiring with gangsters to shake down Mr. Seagal, and he served one year in federal prison.
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Feb 27, 2023 · Seagal and Nasso had collaborated for years and were once close friends, but they had a falling out when the Out for Justice star wanted to end their business relationship.
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Feb 12, 2003 · Did he owe Nasso, or did Nasso owe him? At the meetings in Los Angeles, he said, the New York crowd gave him their answer: He owed $3 million. Seagal said he didn’t pay “because I didn’t owe...
Sep 3, 2020 · As CBS News and Ralph Blumenthal of the New York Times tell us, a legal case between Seagal and his producer, Julius R. Nasso, revealed that the bad blood between the two had led to the producer sending the Gambino family to shake down the actor, old school style.
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Apr 11, 2021 · Nasso denied the claims that he was a Gambino family associate, telling reporters that all he wanted was the $500,000 that Seagal owed him after reneging on the contract deal. But the FBI reports and wiretaps say otherwise.
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Scroll through Seagal’s film credits and the name Julius Nasso will come up as his former partner. The pair were close friends who met in 1986 and worked together on multiple projects between 1990 and 2000. In the mid ’90s, they formed their own production company. Seagal-Nasso Productions dissolved as a business in the 2000s after the two parted w...
In 2002, more than one dozen reported members of the Gambino crime family were indicted for racketeering and other crimes. Among them were Peter Gotti, Anthony Ciccone, Primo Cassarino, Julius Nasso, and his brother Vincent Nasso. The New York attorney general office’s press releaseindicated the Nassos, Ciccone, and Cassarino extorted “a well-known...
Nasso denied extortion or any wrongdoing and told the court that he filed a lawsuit against Seagal for breach of contract, and for money owed to him. According to the NYT, Nasso asserted that Seagal owed him $500,000 for a loan and millions of dollars for movies that he decided to drop out of. He claimed Seagal backed out of films after his “Buddhi...
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Jul 13, 2002 · Mr. Nasso, who said he met Mr. Seagal in Hollywood in 1986, argued in an interview that he had helped make Mr. Seagal millions while reaping only $850,000 in producers' fees.
Jan 10, 2008 · In 2002, Mr. Nasso sued Mr. Seagal for $60 million, accusing the actor of backing out of a four-movie deal. A few months later, Mr. Nasso was indicted on charges of conspiring with gangsters...