• Capo dei capi (Italian: [ˈkaːpo dei ˈkaːpi]; "boss of [the] bosses") or capo di tutti i capi (Italian: [ˈkaːpo di ˈtutti i ˈkaːpi]; "boss of all [the]...
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  • Il Capo dei Capi (The Boss of the Bosses) is an Italian biographical crime drama miniseries which debuted on Canale 5 between October and November 2007...
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  • capo, capo-, or capotasto in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Capo or capos, may refer to: Capo, short for Caporegime, a rank in the Mafia Capo dei capi...
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    John Gotti (category Capo dei capi)
    As early as his teens, Gotti was running errands for Carmine Fatico, a capo in the Gambino family, then known as the Anastasia family under the leadership...
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    Sebastiano DiGaetano (category Capo dei capi)
    become known as the Bonanno crime family. He briefly attained the title capo dei capi (boss of bosses) of the Sicilian-American mafia, after Giuseppe Morello...
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    Salvatore Maranzano (category Capo dei capi)
    of crime bosses in Wappingers Falls, New York, and declared himself capo dei capi ("boss of all bosses"). Maranzano also whittled down the rival families'...
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    Initially, Maranzano intended each family's boss to report to him as the capo dei capi ("boss of all the bosses"). However, this led to his assassination that...
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    Joseph Massino (category Capo dei capi)
    another Rastelli loyalist capo. Both men were themselves threatened by another faction seeking to depose the absentee boss led by capos Alphonse "Sonny Red"...
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    Joseph Bonanno (category Capo dei capi)
    more greedy and hidebound than Masseria had been, declaring himself capo di tutti capi (boss of all bosses); as a consequence, Luciano arranged Maranzano's...
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    played Ciccio Coniglio in five episodes of the 2007 TV mini-series Il Capo dei Capi, and Maresciallo in the 1999 movie il pesce innamorato, directed by...
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    Joe Masseria (category Capo dei capi)
    old Morello crime family, was selected to replace D'Aquila as the new capo dei capi that winter. After his elevation, Masseria began applying pressure to...
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    television series Barbarians. He also starred in Malèna (2000), Il Capo dei Capi (2007) and Baarìa (2009). He is from Agrigento, Sicily. "Gaetano Aronica...
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    Carlo Gambino (category Capo dei capi)
    crime bosses in Wappingers Falls, New York, where he declared himself capo di tutti capi ("boss of all bosses"). Maranzano also whittled down the rival families'...
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  • Salvatore D'Aquila (category Capo dei capi)
    family. D'Aquila formed his own crime family and was appointed the new capo dei capi. His crime family operated from East Harlem and the Bronx, where he...
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  • someone who has become a made man. capo: the family member who leads a crew; short for caporegime or capodecina. capo dei capi: "boss of all [the] bosses" is...
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    Vincent Gigante (category Capo dei capi)
    of John Gotti in 1992, Gigante came to be known as the figurehead capo di tutti capi, the "Boss of All Bosses", despite the position being abolished in...
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    Cadavers. He was played by Vincent Riotta in the 2007 mini-series Il Capo dei Capi. He was portrayed by Sergio Vespertino in the 2016 Italian TV series...
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    Vito Genovese (category Capo dei capi)
    ever let me hear this again, or I'll lose my temper. Genovese was now a capo of his former Greenwich Village Crew. However, on October 4, 1951, Moretti...
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    Lucky Luciano (category Capo dei capi)
    crime bosses in Wappingers Falls, New York, where he declared himself capo di tutti capi ("boss of all bosses"). Maranzano also whittled down the rival families'...
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  • Salvatore Riina (category Capo dei capi)
    known by the nicknames la belva ("the beast") and il capo dei capi (Sicilian: 'u capu di 'i capi, "the boss of bosses"). Riina succeeded Luciano Leggio...
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    Frank Costello (category Capo dei capi)
    Succeeded by Vito Genovese Preceded by Vincent Mangano as boss of bosses Capo di tutti capi Chairman of the Commission 1951–1957 Succeeded by Vito Genovese as...
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    America is usually as follows: Boss of all bosses – also known as the capo dei capi or godfather (Italian: padrino), has been given by the media to the...
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    Giuseppe Morello (category Capo dei capi)
    influential Sicilian crime family in New York City and was recognized as capo di tutti capi (boss of bosses) by Mafia leaders in other U.S. cities, according...
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    Gaspare Messina (category Capo dei capi)
    December 1930 meeting in Boston, Messina was selected to become a temporary capo di capi, by fellow mafiosi after stripping the title from Joe Masseria during...
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  • form a special taskforce to capture him, and the Mafia, headed by the capo dei capi, Don Croce Malo, whose interests and influence have been damaged by...
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    Bernardo Provenzano (category Capo dei capi)
    originated in the town of Corleone, and de facto the boss of bosses ("il capo dei capi"). His nickname was Binnu u tratturi (Sicilian for "Bernie the tractor")...
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    Matteo Messina Denaro (category Capo dei capi)
    magazine L'Espresso put him on the cover with the headline: Ecco il nuovo capo della Mafia ("Here is the new Mafia boss"). Messina Denaro became a fugitive...
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  • AllMusic. Retrieved 28 April 2023. Manon (22 December 2015). "Alonzo : le Capo Dei Capi fait envie aux " Mauvais "…". aficia (in French). Archived from the...
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    of Mafia boss Salvatore Riina in the 2007 television miniseries "Il Capo dei Capi" ("Boss of Bosses"). It was aired by Canale 5 in six parts. In 2009...
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    these films he performed on television, in La luna e il lago and Il Capo dei Capi. His big break came in 2009 when he played the role of Peppino Torrenuova...
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