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A planned collaboration between late night host Jimmy Fallon and powerful entertainment executive Tommy Mottola to launch a branded line of pasta sauces is now kaput as the entertainment mogul’s name is being discovered all over the Epstein Files, exposing his close relationship with the late financier and convicted sex offender and trafficker. Fallon and Mottola have been close friends for years, often spotted palling around New York together and frequently enjoying Italian American dishes at East Harlem mainstay Rao’s.

<p>January 3, 2004 -- RAO'S restaurant killer Louis "Lump Lump" Barone said he was trying to "do the right thing" in defending a woman's honor when he felt threatened and blew away a mobster at the famed Manhattan dining spot. Speaking for the first time since the Dec. 22 shooting, Barone, 67, says he acted out of fear when he took out a gun and pumped a bullet into 6-foot-4 loudmouth gangster Albert Circelli, 37.</p>