Peter Gotti Drove His Mistress to End Her Life

She was a forty three year old divorced mother of two from Long Island. She had been in love with Peter Gotti — brother of John Gotti, acting boss of the Gambino crime family — for years. When prosecutors exposed their relationship during his racketeering trial, she did something nobody in the mob world does. She talked to reporters. She wrote letters to the judge. She called herself and Peter Gotti soul mates and said she was proud of loving him. Peter Gotti called her from prison and berated her for going public. He cut off all contact. Six days later, Marjorie Alexander was found dead in room three oh one of a Red Roof Inn in Westbury, Long Island. Nassau County police ruled it a suicide. A pathology expert with five hundred cases said he had never seen anything like the method. The investigation was closed. Nobody was charged. In this video we cover all of it: Who Peter Gotti actually was — John Gotti's younger brother, the acting boss of the Gambino crime family after John's imprisonment, and the man convicted of trying to extort three million dollars from action film star Steven Seagal How the racketeering case was built — the waterfront extortion, the money laundering, the Steven Seagal operation, and the March two thousand three conviction that put Peter Gotti in the Brooklyn Detention Center awaiting up to fifteen years Who Marjorie Alexander was — a Long Island divorcee, a mother of two, a woman who spent years loving a man who was married to someone else and promised her he was trying to leave his wife The decision that started everything — why she wrote letters to the judge, why she talked to reporters, what she said publicly about their relationship, and why she did it all in a world where silence was the supreme value Peter Gotti's response from prison — the phone call, the berating, the cutting off of all contact with the woman who had exposed herself publicly for his benefit Her final week — checking into the Red Roof Inn on Monday, mailing notes to family and friends, being reported missing on Tuesday, being found on Wednesday What Nassau County police found in room three oh one — and what a pathology consultant with five hundred suicide cases said about what they found Why the investigation was closed and what questions were never answered Peter Gotti's wife Catherine's response — and the three things she said were the best events of two thousand three Peter Gotti's death in federal custody in two thousand twenty two at eighty two years old What this story reveals about what happens when ordinary love intersects with a world that has no place for it Key figures: Marjorie Alexander, Peter Gotti, Catherine Gotti, Gerald Shargel, Victoria Gotti Timeline: Two thousand two through two thousand twenty two — and the questions about March thirty first, two thousand four that were never answered Why this story matters today: Marjorie Alexander was not a mob figure. She was a woman from Long Island who loved someone. The code that governed his world destroyed her for expressing that love publicly. She said she was not sorry for loving him. She said she was destroyed. Both things were true at the same time. Subscribe for a new mob documentary every week. Drop your state in the comments. Sources: NBC News — Gotti Girlfriend an Apparent Suicide, April one, two thousand four | CBS News — Mobster's Mistress Found Dead, April one, two thousand four | Wikipedia — Peter Gotti | Getty Images — Marjorie Alexander Red Roof Inn documentation, April one, two thousand four | New York Daily News archive — Marjorie Alexander interviews, March two thousand four | New York Post — Peter Gotti sentencing coverage, two thousand four | Court TV — Marjorie Alexander Loved a Made Man, April one, two thousand four #PeterGotti #MarianaAlexander #GambinoCrimeFamily