Robert DeNiro played Sam “Ace” Rothstein in the film Casino. Scorsese dealt up all of Casino’s gritty gambling gangster drama straight from the nonfiction source material, and only the names were changed to protect the guilty, as it were. The author of much of Scorsese’s source material is writer Nicholas Pileggi, who wrote Wise Guys, Casino, and Goodfellas. Read on for the true story behind the real life mobsters, made men, and thugs portrayed by Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, and the rest of the cast of the movie Casino. And for the most part, these rumors are absolutely true. The early years of Las Vegas are rife with rumors of mafia corruption, organized crime operations, money laundering, and disappearing bodies in the desert. But did you know that in Scorsese’s film, Casino, the characters portrayed in in the vintage Vegas casinos were based on real life people? You know you’ll be in for a gritty portrayal of mob life, the mean streets of New York, Chicago, and Vegas, and multi-dimensional characters.

There’s nothing like settling in for a good Martin Scorsese film with all the usual goodfellas cast in the main roles.

Real characters of movie casino