My mob boss hubby would come home with bodies in boot and blood on shoes - I lived in luxury until it came crashing down

TO the outside world, Andrea Giovino looked like any other Staten Island housewife as she pruned her beloved rose bushes outside her New York mansion.

But little did her well-to-do neighbours know that Andrea was privy to some of the most explosive secrets of the Gambino crime family - and the charming mum-of-four, who smiled sweetly as they passed, would tell her husband to wipe the blood off his shoes when he got inside. Here, she tells all about her time as a mob wife.

Brooklyn-born Andrea Giovino, now, 68, had a front row seat to a life of crime.

Her first contact with "the streets”, as she says, was when her mother would host cards and dice gambling games in her basement in Brooklyn, New York when she was a kid.

Her mum's main guest was Crazy Joe Gallo - an