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  2. Thomas DeSimone - Wikipedia

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    Thomas DeSimone was born in New York City, New York, on June 6, 1946.He had two sisters, Dolores and Phyllis, and two brothers, Robert and Anthony. Both of his brothers were associates of the Gambino crime family; Anthony was murdered by mobster Thomas Agro in 1979.

  3. Goodfellas - Wikipedia

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    Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical gangster film [5] directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is a film adaptation of Pileggi's 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy .

  4. William Bentvena - Wikipedia

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    William "Billy Batts" Bentvena (February 22, 1933 – June 11, 1970), also known as William Devino, [2] was an American mobster with the Gambino crime family who was a longtime friend of John Gotti in the 1960s.

  5. Thomas Agro - Wikipedia

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    In the 1990 film Goodfellas, the character "Vinnie" (played by Charles Scorsese, the father of director Martin Scorsese) is based on Agro. [citation needed] Vinnie is seen cooking sauce while in prison and when the character Tommy DeVito (based on Thomas DeSimone) is murdered. Agro is portrayed by Ron Gabriel in the 2001 film Boss of Bosses.

  6. Karen Friedman Hill - Wikipedia

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    Henry Hill wrote in his 1994 book Gangsters and Goodfellas that Tommy DeSimone tried to rape Karen while Hill was in jail. [6] Karen was meanwhile having an affair with Vario. After DeSimone attempted to rape Karen, [ 7 ] one theory is that Vario reportedly took revenge by telling the Gambino crime family that DeSimone was the one who killed ...

  7. James Burke (gangster) - Wikipedia

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    James Burke (July 5, 1931 – April 13, 1996), also known as "Jimmy the Gent", was an American gangster and Lucchese crime family associate who is believed to have organized the 1978 Lufthansa heist, the largest cash robbery in American history at the time.

  8. Black Caesar (film) - Wikipedia

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    The original cut of the film ended with Tommy Gibbs being beaten, robbed and killed by a black street gang, but this scene was removed from general release, appearing only in European releases of the film, until it was restored for home video release, and is now generally accepted as the official ending of the film.

  9. Henry Hill - Wikipedia

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    Henry Hill Jr. (June 11, 1943 – June 12, 2012) was an American mobster who was associated with the Lucchese crime family of New York City from 1955 until 1980, when he was arrested on narcotics charges and became an FBI informant.