Son of Irish mobster falls to death

THE son of murdered Irish mobster Mickey Spillane has fallen to his death out the window of his sixth-floor New York apartment, police and his uncle said.

Robert “Bobby” Spillane, an actor who had roles on television’s Rescue Me and Law & Order, fell from his Midtown Manhattan apartment in the Hell’s Kitchen neighbourhood near Times Square, where his father — not to be confused with the pulp fiction writer of the same name — had run rackets in the 1960s and 1970s.

No foul play was suspected in Bobby Spillane’s death.