Junior Soprano illness and house arrest. According to series creator David Chase the name Junior was taken from one of his own older cousins. In season one it is stated that Junior is 70 years old, placing his birth date in 1928 or 1929. Corrado Soprano, Jr. is the son of Corrado and Mariangela D'Agostino Soprano, Italian immigrants who came over from the town of Ariano in 1911. Junior is Tony Soprano's uncle: Junior's younger brother is Tony's father Johnny Soprano. He tells the court-ordered psychologist when feigning mental incompetence that he was getting a haircut when he heard about the Assassination
Members Only (The Sopranos) Finn DeTrolio; Ray Curto exercises on a treadmill and later dies of a stroke; A.J. Soprano is now attending college; Adriana La Cerva is remembered by a worrying Carmela; and Tony Soprano helps Uncle Junior locate a large amount of money Junior thinks he buried in his backyard thirty years before. Phil Leotardo, now the acting boss of the Lupertazzi crime family, performs day-to-day tasks for the imprisoned Johnny Sack. After dining at a Chinese restaurant in Brooklyn, Hesh Rabkin and his son-in-law Eli Kaplan are assaulted by Lupertazzi associates. At Hesh's behest, Tony tries to reach out directly to