Ex-mobster Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano says he wanted to change his appearance completely after turning on his Mafia cronies, even asking a plastic surgeon to make him look like Robert Redford.

"When he told me `no,' then I just stayed with what I had," Gravano says in an interview to be aired this week on ABC.It explains why the face on the cover of Gravano's biography, "Underboss," also out this week, shows little change from his earlier mugshots.

Gravano was arrested in 1990 with Gambino family crime boss John Gotti and his associate Frankie Locascio on murder and racketeering charges. Ten months later, he stunned law enforcers and criminal cohorts alike by implicating Gotti in several murders and admitting to 19 himself.

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Gravano, who served only five years as part of his deal with prosecutors, helped send "Teflon Don" Gotti to prison for life and convict 35 other mobsters of various crimes.

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