The making of "The Godfather" required plenty of negotiations, hard bargains and even casting deals with real-life mobsters, including the leaders of the Bufalino and Colombo crime families.

Another of the five families, the Colombo crime family, was originally led by Joseph Profaci. Upon his death in 1962, Joseph Magliocco took over the role of family boss.

Every crime family in the real world's Cosa Nostra has always had a clear hierarchy. There’s the boss, underboss, consigliere, capos, street soldiers, and associates.

ROME — Italian authorities have seized $1.76 billion from Sicilian construction company officials with alleged ties to Mafia crime families in Corleone, a longtime Cosa Nostra stronghold ...

Italian organized crime in the city is roughly the same age as the tabloid, with the five New York Mafia families spawned in the early 1930s following the bloody 18-month Castellammarese War.

Mafia Involved in Making of 'The Godfather'? During the production of the movie masterpiece, director Francis Ford Coppola found himself entangled with real-life New York crime families.

Though the crime organization in question had been operating for decades, the Gambino family’s name came from Carlo Gambino, who was the family’s boss from 1957 to his death in 1976.

In fact, the excellent writing could suggest creator David Chase based the show’s main characters on real-life New Jersey gangsters. Not so, according to Chase, who said “ 90% of the show is ...

On a quiet night in March, a mob leader was executed in New York City for the first time since 1985. The body of Francesco Cali, a reputed boss of the Gambino crime family, lay crumpled outside ...

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