Son of mobster Mickey Spillane (not the crime novelist). Spillane's father was known as "The Gentleman Gangster," and was a leader of the notorious Westies Gang for two decades. He was gunned down in 1977. His murder was never solved.
Nephew of Hell's Kitchen Democratic political boss Jim McManus.
Spillane, a 45-year-old actor and playwright, was calling out to his twin brother, Michael, on the street below when he fell from the sixth-floor apartment.
Bobby Spillane was deep in debt at time of his death.