BOSTON, MA / PRNewswire  --  In a recently released memoir, Al Capone's grandson talks about how he found out the secret identity of his infamous grandfather and on how it was growing up gay in an abusive home.

At the age of 13, just days after his father died in his arms, Chris Knight learned that he was Al Capone's grandson. His father's funeral, filled with previously unknown family friends and associates, prompted Knight to ask one of his father's associates for his father's real identity. The answer, that his father was a son of Al Capone, started a life-long journey to find the truth about his family connection to America's most notorious mob boss labeled "public enemy number one."

In his recently released memoir, Son of Scarface: A Memoir by the Grandson of Al Capone, Boston resident, New Jersey native Chris Knight chronicles his life, from his father's tragic death to the traumatizing abuse he suffered at the hands of his mother to growing up gay, to searching for the truth behind his father's secret past and finally concluding that he is the grandson of America's most notorious mobster Al Capone.

His search was stymied by his mother's abuse -- she insisted that he and his sister keep the truth a secret -- he wasn't allowed to have any friends oreven go outside the family's gates. Only as an adult did he find the courage to investigate the truth and now tell his story. Laid out for all to see, Son of Scarface puts all the pieces together, from his father's fraudulent birth certificate to his mother's confirmation to the research of genealogists and private investigators who detail the discovery of Knight's identity.

Excerpts, photos and more can be seen at http://www.SonofScarface.com.

Last update: 02-27-2008 15:52