Ray Liotta Says Frank Sinatra’s Daughters Sent Him a Horse Head Out of Revenge For Playing Their Father in ‘The Rat Pack’

Ray Liotta may not have been in The Godfather, but that’s not to say he didn’t get to experience similar circumstances in his own life. While appearing on Jay Leno’s Garage yesterday (Nov. 3), the actor revealed that he was sent a horse head while starring as Frank Sinatra in HBO’s The Rat Pack. The offenders? Nancy and Tina Sinatra, the late singer’s two daughters.

In an act of revenge, the ladies sent Liotta the horse head because he didn’t accept the role of Frank in a TV miniseries they were making at the same time as The Rat Pack.

“The daughters, they wanted me to do a miniseries when they were doing a miniseries about it and I just felt too uncomfortable,” Liotta recalled.

After agreeing to star as Sinatra in The Rat Pack, Liotta says he received the bizarre package a few days later.

“We were doing the movie and I got delivered a horse’s head,” Liotta continued. “Obviously it wasn’t a real one, but it was a horse’s head. And, you know, a horse’s head means you’re toast.”

The horse’s head motif was made popular by the first Godfather film, in which Luca Brasi (Lenny Montana) beheads Woltz’s (John Marley) horse and deliver the bloody number straight to his bed. It’s a similar act of revenge to that pulled by Nancy and Tina — Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) is attempting to help Johnny Fontane (Al Martino in a role rumored to based on Frank Sinatra) get cast in a big time Hollywood movie.

“It turned out that his daughters sent it and said, ‘Oh, you could do this one, but you couldn’t do the one that we wanted you to?’” Liotta said with a smile.

It seems like the Sinatra daughters never got their miniseries off the ground, thanks to little help from a busy Liotta. Instead, though, they recently helped produce Sinatra: All or Nothing at All, a TV docuseries about the performer.