Webmay 11, 2018 8:00am. Gotti delivers an account of john gotti’s life, spanning three decades to show how he became the head of the gambino crime family in new york,. Webimagine a world where the king of the underworld lives not in a lavish palace, but behind the grim bars of a prison cell. Junior gotti, 41, was released from a federal lockup in manhattan after spending the last six years behind bars. After posting a $7 million us bond, he.