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One of the striking examples is Anthony "Tony" Darrow, known for his role in The Sopranos. In 2004, Darrow found himself in a courtroom, not as an actor performing a dramatic monologue, but as a defendant pleading guilty to extortion charges. His offense? Collaborating with Gambino crime family enforcers to arrange a brutal debt collection, involving a real-life beating that echoed the scripts from the show. Darrow's experience in the gallery of the courtroom, claiming he wanted to teach younger generations that "crime doesn't pay," was anything but a scripted scene, but a bitter taste of reality.