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In 1945 Darlene DeMatteo and Jerry the Spaniard is forced to pay money to the Corleones. After Hours was a nightclub in Hell's Kitchen, owned by Darlene DeMatteo.

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Popular due to his closeness in proximity to Madison Square Gardens, the club was under the 'protection' of the Irish Jerry the Spaniard and the Cuneo crime family, who ran a high-rent brothel in the backrooms.

Immensely popular with the decadent upper classes of New York, and their indiscretions were photographed and used by the Cuneo Family as a blackmail ring. Darlene was a former talented hostess who ran her business with ruthless ferocity.

In the later stages of the Five Families War, the business became property of Aldo Trapani.

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Near the famous Madison Gardens on 8th Street, Darlene DeMatteo runs an elegant nightspot called After Hours. But behind her cheerful and easy-going facade she hides a dirty secret-from every dark corner, tough Cuneo gangsters protect the high-rent brothel operation run by Jerry The Spaniard, who's actually Irish.

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