John Travolta meets John Gotti’s widow

Actor John Travolta reportedly traveled from Los Angeles to New York for a private meeting with John Gotti‘s widow. According to a Fox News report, the sit down was called to get Victoria Gotti’s “blessing” for the planned biopic produced by her son John “Junior” Gotti.

The pilgrimage brought Travolta to the Queens home where the late crime boss he will be portraying lived while ruthlessly running the Gambino crime family.

Travolta arrived bearing tribute — a gold gift bag — for his meeting with the mob matriarch and other key players involved in the movie.

He was greeted with handshakes and hugs from Junior and several other men who were outside when he showed up at 4:30pm local time.

The group then disappeared inside Victoria’s white clapboard home for more than two hours.

Travolta emerged shortly before 7:00pm from his first face-to-face meeting with the Gambino queen, whose notorious husband died in prison in 2002.

Travolta’s wife, Kelly Preston, is set to play the elder Victoria, and X-Men actor Ben Foster will play Junior.

The cast also includes Godfather star Al Pacino as Gambino family underboss Aniello “Neil” Dellacroce, Lindsay Lohan as Junior’s wife, Kim, and Chazz Palminteri as the late mob boss Paul Castellano.

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