In 2004, Robert De Niro found himself struggling to successfully secure Italian citizenship despite his family heritage, all because of opposition from the Order of the Sons of Italy in America. The group urged the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, to prevent De Niro from being honoured with Italian citizenship, specifically because the actor had “made a career of playing gangsters of Italian descent”. In the end, though, De Niro was gr…
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