As Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman arrives on Netflix, it’s a good time to explain who the real-life gangsters were. Expand. Outside Umberto’s Clam House after Vincent ‘Crazy Joe’ Gallo The true story behind ‘The Irishman’: What really happened to Jimmy Hoffa By Michael Kaplan , Lauren Steussy and Nadine DeNinno Published Jan. 4, 2020 Updated Jan. 4, 2020, 4:38 p.m. ET The film is based on a book by ‎Charles Brandt, "I Heard You Paint Houses," which details interviews and confessions that Sheeran once reportedly made to Brandt before he died. Scorsese and De But The Irishman is merely based on Sheeran’s account of what happened leading up to Hoffa’s disappearance and with the vanishing itself—a “laughable” story that found zero merit with a Based on the book I Heard You Paint Houses (which is also, oddly, what the film is titled on-screen) by Charles Brandt, The Irishman has received complaints from critics claiming that the AqNXR.

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