Nothing much reported in the papers or even online about Danny Greene's children. He left behind five children and two ex-wives.
Greene's eldest son, Danny Kelly, as well as his daughter Sharon Greene Wehagen and ex-wife Nancy Greene, were interviewed when the film Danny Greene: The Rise and Fall of the Irishman, the documentary about the late gangster's life, came up in 2010.
Danny Kelly was 17 when his dad was killed. Growing up, he helped out with various tasks including crawling under his dad's car to check for plastic explosives. Kelly, who goes by his mother's maiden name, is not involved with the film and declined to discuss it. The one question he agreed to answer was: What was your dad like?
"He was Irish, Irish Catholic," said Kelly. "He believed the man upstairs pulled the strings and that there was someplace to go after this. Where he is today, he wouldn't trade places with either me or you here. He was truly intrepid. He did everything with humor. If you know somebody that has that charisma, that magnetism of the Irish personality, that was him. He probably could have been governor or senator if he hadn't gone the other way."
And one more thing. "He was an orphan. Most of the orphans I know are always scared that eventually they're going to not have something again. They tend to want to grab everything they can get right now."
Nancy Greene and her daughter, Sharon Greene Wehagen, both appear in the documentary.
Danny Greene was born in 1933 in Cleveland, Ohio. He started up his own loan-sharking, gambling and racketeering outfit as a young adult, in addition to being a mob strongman.
He was viewed as competition by other organized crime figures. Some reports have speculated that Greene may have been an FBI informant—a possible explanation for why he seemed to escape serious prosecution for his crimes. He died in Lyndhurst, Ohio, in 1977.