Are you referring to Tony? If you are, he was a loan shark. Rocky probably doesn't have too much contact with him anymore since he is now wealthy and a professional boxer so he no longer has to seek that type of work which he didn't like in the first place.
shareSylvester Stallone fell out with him.
They no longer speak. Stallone therefore no longer gives him a part.
What was the fall-out about?
shareI forgot where I read this before so had to look it up. Can't find the specific article I read but apparently it happened while filming Nighthawks in 1981:-
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0082817/trivia
It was during this movie that the relationship between Sylvester Stallone and Joe Spinell ended for unknown reasons. Joe Spinell helped Stallone financially before the latter met fame with Rocky (1976).share
Thanks for that. It would appear that Stallone's bodyguard became his new money man; he bankrolled 13 of Sly's movies.
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