Joe Pesci and Helen Mirren are in Reno this week, filming "Love Ranch," which the moviemakers say is loosely based on the lives of former Mustang Ranch brothel owners Joe and Sally Conforte.
Sally's gone to that great brothel in the sky, but Joe's living rich, fat and happy in Brazil, where the U.S. government can't touch him on tax evasion and other charges.
I really hope the movie is "loosely" based, because Joe and Sally are not nice people. I had the unpleasant experience in the late 1960s of watching to them claim in a UNR class (invited by the instructor) that they would soon start charities and help poor folks in Northern Nevada. Never happened, but they were great at P.R. bull.
However, Sally's nephew does continue her tradition of giving out turkeys at Thanksgiving and Christmas to people living in Mustang and Lockwood in Storey County.
During Mustang Ranch's last years, politicians and lawyers and other people served prison time because of Conforte crimes. Careers, reputations and families were ruined, while Joe and Sally got richer.
It is all about the money, and only about the money, with Joe and Sally ... money that came from uneducated and or desperate women who spread their legs for strangers. Oscar Bonavena died because he got between Joe and Joe's money.
There's no love in a whorehouse, just sex ... and money.
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