The wife and daughter of John Gotti Jr., the eponymous son of infamous New York mob boss John “Dapper Don” Gotti, are charged with assault following a fistfight with a woman during a high school basketball game on Long Island.
LATTINGTOWN, N.Y. — The wife and daughter of John Gotti Jr., the eponymous son of infamous New York mob boss John “Dapper Don” Gotti, are charged with assault following a fistfight with a woman during a high school basketball game on Long Island.
Kimberly Gotti, 55, and her daughter Gianna Gotti, 25, are accused of attacking the woman after she asked them to stop cursing at players from the stands. John and Kimberly Gotti’s son Joseph was on the field for Oyster Bay High School against rival Locust Valley High School on Thursday night.
The woman said Kimberly and Gianni Gotti beat her and pulled off her hat and wig, “which were secured with three clips and Velcro,” according to court documents cited by multiple news organizations. The woman said she “felt like my scalp was going to be ripped off” and described how more people joined in and knocked her to the ground.
The Gottis, who were charged Friday morning with third-degree assault, disputed the woman’s statement. John Gotti Jr. told reporters on Thursday that the woman had first attacked his wife.
“That’s the only reason we’re here,” he said. “She threw a punch that hit my wife in the head.”
Kimberly and Gianni Gotti will both appear in Nassau District Court again on March 6.