jailbird
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If it weren’t for the long-ago gift of some 3,000 gorgeous sylvan acres from a cranky jailbird with a civic conscience and a large and very taxable real estate portfolio, we wouldn’t have Griffith Park.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
Tony Sirico, a one-time jailbird who achieved fame as mobster Paulie “Walnuts” Gualtieri in “The Sopranos,” died Friday, his brother the Rev. Robert Sirico said on Facebook.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 9, 2022
Santa’s delight at meeting jailbird Warwick Davis, whom he naively mistakes for an elf, is brilliantly handled.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2016
The jailbird appeared well behaved and was taken into custody without incident, authorities said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2016
He truly believed that even a jailbird has a constitutional right to go on television.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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