Wikipedia says his half sister says he was of Italian Ancestry but he denies it
“Wikipedia says his half sister says he was of Italian Ancestry but he denies it”
It also says this”
Cody was born Espera Oscar de Corti on April 3, 1904, in Kaplan in Vermilion Parish, in southwestern Louisiana, a second son of Antonio de Corti and his wife, Francesca Salpietra, immigrants from Sicily. He had two brothers, Joseph and Frank, and a sister, Victoria. His parents had a local grocery store in Gueydan, Louisiana, where he grew up. His father left the family and moved to Texas, where he took the name Tony Corti.
Sounds like a Paisano to me.