First of all, it's not coming back.....

Thank you to everyone who has ever taken the time to enter Sacred Body Tattoo. In the past 6 years, I have had the best times in my life. I have tattooed thousands of people from all over the world, I have learned with my friends the true meaning of tattooing, and I have done it all with a smile on my face, and a firm launch in my step. The time has come though for change in my life, and although it was brought on by means out of my control, I must close the doors of Sacred Body forever.

To most all my past employees, and friends:
I will love you all forever. I will never forget the late nights, the parties, and the horrors we exchanged through the years. As I write this sobbing in tears, I promise I will take you all in my thoughts forever, and wherever I may roam. I will always hold my head high when the store is talked about, and I will never ever let anyone fall into the trouble of having to explain anything about anything.

To all my closest friends, and clients:
You are the reason I can go on, even though this great loss has destroyed my hopes in so many ways. Some of you have been there from day one, and I know who you are. You are all in my prayers, and you are all being sent angels from above.

Alot of people will ask, "WHY IS SACRED BODY TATTOO GONE?", and the rumors will fly! I have heard so many rumors and I sometimes find it almost funny. Let me tell you it has to do with the fact that I wanted to change myself. I decided on my own to leave the store in the hands of the staff, and let them run it the way they saw fit. I trusted. And I did so blindly with no concern about the outcome. This was the failure. Again, I sit her sobbing, and trying to tell the truth about this isn't easy. Scott Roache (the gentleman who I left in charge of the store, while I traveled), and his wife decided that since I was not there, they would take whatever they wanted, and use it, lie about it to my staff, and make up stories about talking to me to cover up their thieving ways. They used the store checks to fund a tattoo shop of their own, and lied to the staff about it, and of course still won't admit it to me. There, it's said. Charges ARE being brought against Scott and his wife, but the damage is done. They have taken the store away. They took the staff's moral, the high standing we had in the tattoo comminity, and they have taken the single most important thing that has ever happened to me. This may sound like a sob story, but alas, it is true. There is ALOT of "money and products missing", and there is simply a lifetime of pain left behind. There is nothing that I can alone do to make it come back. It's simply gone, and so is the want and desire for it.... this is the biggest let down of all for me... I simply don't want to try again here. Although I throw the blame in the direction of one person, I know in my heart of hearts that it is ultimately my own doing, and with this I do take blame.

Times have changed. I am living in South Beach, Miami, now, and I am working for another studio. I am trying to better myself artisticly, and grow as an adult to find why this has all happened. I believe my Native American heritage and the strength I have shared with my clients and friends will help me to move forward into what is surely the unknown. I have given myself to the throws of reality, and have faith that all things happen for a reason. I can't thank you all enough, and I believe I have said enough.

Scott Roache currently still works in CT, and is living life happily with his wife. Together they believe that they "got away with it". I am staying with my initial decision to press charges. Someday he will understand the depth of what he has done to Sacred Body Tattoo and all those who have ever entered it's doors. Please stand by the store, and myself when getting tattooed, and avoid this man, and his businesses. If you need to know where to go, please find Paul Musso, in Enfield. He is one of the most trustworthy and benificial people Sacred Body ever trusted.

To my most recent staff:
It was you, who I trusted in. It was you that helped me change. It will be you that I pray for, and for you the world remains unchained. LIVE!

I can still be found on the web at MickeyScalzo.com, and I welcome all comments, and emails. If you have my new phone number please use it, although I am the worst at calling back, I am seeing your calls, and you are in my thoughts.

I just don't know what else to say. I am sorry.


Thank god and all of the world, that we had our chance to be together. I hope that someday, we come together again... and smile.