It is the story of his part in the rescue of 1,500 Allied prisoners and the Chefoo School-- his Alma Mater -- imprisoned in the Weihsien Concentration Camp in China. I was a student in the Chefoo School. I was a child in that camp.
Nilda Lavoe, more commonly known as Puchi Lavoe, was working on voice-over recordings for a movie about her deceased husband Hector Lavoe's life prior to her death. Before the film, which was titled El Cantante, was completed, Nilda Lavoe accidentally fell backward out of a 14th story window to her death. Her official cause of death was ruled as severe head trauma due to the fall. El Cantante presented Hector Lavoe's life from the perspective of Nilda Lavoe. Hector Lavoe was one of the most well-known singers in the salsa community, and his relationship with Nilda Lavoe was featured extensively throughout the movie. Years before her own untimely death, Nilda Lavoe experienced the tragic death of her husband, who passed away due to complications from AIDS.
During that time, DeSimone and Burke took over his loanshark business. They wanted to keep it, so after Devino was released, DeSimone and Burke killed him, says author Simone. In âGoodfellas,â DeSimone kills Devino over an insult about his past as a shoeshine boy. That part of the movie was fiction, Simone says. Jerothe died because he punched DeSimone in the face in a feud over Jerotheâs sister, whom DeSimone was dating, mob lore says.