Top ranking members of the American and Sicilian mafias met in Palermo, Sicily at the Grand Hotel des Palmes in what has been called the first American-Sicilian Cosa Nostra (mafia) summit! The meeting was hosted by American mafia Bosses, Joe Bonanno and Charlie “Lucky” Luciano who had been deported to Italy in 1946 and now [...]

John Joseph Gotti, Jr., the future head of the Gambino crime family and a man later nicknamed “the Dapper Don” due to his polished appearance and expensive suits, is born in the Bronx, New York. Gotti, the grandson of Italian immigrants, was raised in a poor family with 13 children. Growing up, he did errands [...]