The father of a Brooklyn teen who drowned in an upstate boating accident this week wants his son buried close to where he is in West Virginia – but he’ll never be able to visit his child’s grave.
Anthony Dupont’s mobster dad is serving life plus 25 years in Gilmer federal prison in Glenville, W.Va.
Norman Dupont, 59, is a convicted Gambino crime-family associate who was the caretaker of the infamous Ravenite Social Club on Mulberry Street in Little Italy, where the late John Gotti held court and conducted business.
Dupont swept the floors and served coffee there and was even featured in an FBI surveillance tape opening the door at the club for the Dapper Don himself.
But Dupont made his bones – and grabbed headlines – when he gunned down innocent Manhattan car-service dispatcher Harmon Fuchs in 1990 as a message to the victim’s boss, Joey Fabozzi, who owed Dupont money.
Dupont’s request to attend his son’s funeral was denied by his jailers, according to relatives.
But he made it clear to his family he wants his son to be buried near where he’s incarcerated.
“His father wants to be close to his child. Now he will never see his son again,” said Nancy Dupont, Anthony’s aunt.
“All he wants is to be close to his son.”
During tearful wakes at the Aievoli Funeral Home in Bensonhurst, where the bodies of all three drowning victims lay in separate rooms, Ralph Dupont, Anthony’s brother, added, “The real shame is that my father isn’t here to see his son buried. They [the prison] wouldn’t let him out.
“He’s a mess right now. Could you imagine not being able to see your son who died?
“We need him as much as he needs us because this is a tough time in our family and we need our father.”
Dupont said that neither he nor his brother Anthony had seen their dad in four years.
Dupont drowned along with childhood pals Domenico Coluccio and Carlo Milito when someone stood up in their boat and it tipped over in Mountain Lake in the hamlet of Smallwood in Sullivan County, about 100 miles north of the city.
Gianfranco Generoso, who was also in the fishing boat, was the sole survivor.
He managed to swim to shore despite the 49-degree temperatures and the weight of their winter clothes.