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Frank Serpico was born on April 14, 1936 and is 90 years old now.
Birthday: April 14, 1936
How Old - Age: 90
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Frank Serpico - Biography
Francesco Vincent "Frank" Serpico (born April 14, 1936) is a retired American-Italian New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer, known for whistleblowing on police corruption in the late 1960s and early 1970s, an act that prompted Mayor John V. Lindsay to appoint the landmark Knapp Commission to investigate the NYPD. Much of Serpico's fame came after the release of the 1973 film Serpico, which was based on the book by Peter Maas and which starred Al Pacino in the title role, for which Pacino was nominated for an Oscar.
Serpico retired on June 15, 1972, one month after receiving the New York City Police Department's highest honor, the Medal of Honor. There was no ceremony; according to Serpico, it was simply handed to him over the desk "like a pack of cigarettes". He went to Switzerland to recuperate and spent almost a decade living there and on a farm in the Netherlands, as well as traveling and studying.
When it was decided to make the movie about his life called Serpico, Al Pacino invited Serpico to stay with him at a house that Pacino had rented in Montauk, New York. When Pacino asked why he had stepped forward, Serpico replied, "Well, Al, I don't know. I guess I would have to say it would be because... if I didn't, who would I be when I listened to a piece of music?" He has credited his grandfather who had once been assaulted and robbed, and his uncle, a respected policeman in Italy, with his sense of justice.
On June 15, 1972, Serpico left both the NYPD and U.S. to move to Europe. In 1973, he lived with a woman named Marianne (a native of the Netherlands), whom he wed in a "spiritual marriage"; she died from cancer in 1980. He decided to return to the United States afterwards.
His only child, son Alexander, was born March 15, 1980 out of marriage. After going to a tribunal to contest the alimony payments to the mother, who had told him she was on the contraceptive pill, the tribunal ruled he had to pay around 900$.
