Gatto, 66, who has been closely linked to the Melbourne underworld, has developed a friendship with filmmaker Steve Bastoni and has promised him he won t interfere as the project develops
Smiling as they posed in a friendly embrace, you could never tell two of Australia s most notorious gangsters were bumping off rivals all over Melbourne.
Youthful-looking drug kingpin Carl Williams and hitman Andrew Benji Veniamin were at the height of their gang war and within years would be dead or in jail.
By the end of the bloody gangland conflict, made famous by TV series Underbelly, 36 people would be dead - seven personally murdered by Veniamin.
The never-before-seen happy snap from the late 1990s or early 2000s was shared on Instagram by Williams widow Roberta this week.
Pictured: The never-before-seen photo taken at the height of Melbourne s bloody gang war shows drug kingpin Carl Williams (right) and notorious hitman Andrew Benji Veniamin (left)