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Photos from 20 Secrets About The Sopranos Revealed

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While viewers watched as Tony's son A.J. flirted with his father's criminal lifestyle over the course ofthe series, life began to imitate art in 2001.

As season three was airing, the young actor who played the crime boss' son, Robert Iler, was arrested in New York and charged with the armed robbery of two Brazilian tourists and possession of marijuana. He was only 16 at the time. Iler eventually pleaded guilty to a single count of larceny and was given three years' probation.