The Joe Spinell Story2001

[on Joe's last days]

Luke Walter:
I was with him the night before on January 12 where we went to Gallagher's, his favorite gentlemen's club down the street from his apartment building to watch the girlies dance. After a while I told him, "Joe, we've been here for a couple of hours. It's time to go home." I walked with him back to his apartment building, saw him in, and then walked to my car to drive back to my own apartment building. The next day at around mid afternoon, I received this phone call from some guy I didn't know who told me... Joe Spinell's dead. Now, I though it was some young kid playing a joke and I told him, "Joe's not dead. Don't fool around." The man on the phone said, "I'm not fooling around." I said, "well to be blunt, who the f*** are you?" The man on the phone said, "this is NYPD Officer Carl O'Brian and..." I cut him off saying, "look man, don't break my balls!" The guy said, "hold on". A few seconds later Joe's sister Grace came on the phone and she just said, "yeah Luke, he's dead."