Charles Brandt, Whose Book Inspired The Irishman,' Dies at 82
Briefly

"In a series of interviews over five years, Mr. Sheeran told Mr. Brandt that he had been ordered to kill Mr. Hoffa, who had just been released from prison and was trying to regain power in the underworld."
"Mr. Sheeran recalled luring him to a house in Detroit for a supposed meeting with organized crime figures."
"His book purported to solve the mystery of Mr. Hoffa's disappearance and presumed death in 1975, identifying Hoffa's killer as Frank Sheeran, a World War II veteran and truck driver."
"Mr. Brandt's book, I Heard You Paint Houses, was adapted by Martin Scorsese into The Irishman, starring Robert De Niro as the Mafia hitman who killed Hoffa."
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