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Paul Vario (July 10, 1914 – May 3, 1988) was an American mobster and made man in the Lucchese crime family. Vario was a caporegime and had his own crew of mobsters in Brooklyn, New York.
- Paul Vario’s Early Life and Introduction to New York’s Lucchese Crime Family
- Paul Vario’s Temperamental Time as A Capo
- Henry Hill’s Testimony Landed Paul Vario in Prison For The Rest of His Life
In the early 20th century, Brooklyn was a place where opportunities were scarce, and the streets were tough. Paul “Paulie” Vario, born on July 10, 1914, grew up in this harsh reality. Vario understood that to make it in this world, one had to be resourceful, cunning, and unafraid to get their hands dirty. He started out small, running errands for l...
Though Goodfellasportrays Paulie Cicero as a calm, strategic mob boss, his real-life counterpart Paul Vario had a hair-trigger temper. One revealing story, recounted in Wiseguy, involved Vario and his wife Phyllis, who went out for dinner one night at Don Pepe’s Vesuvio. Vario was visibly frustrated that the maître d’ kept seating other people befo...
Henry Hill’s arrest in 1980 on drug-trafficking charges marked the beginning of the end for the “real-life Goodfellas.” Burke and Vario had tried to tie up loose ends, but taking out Hill was lower on their priority list. Still, authorities had secretly recorded them discussing the possibility of “whacking” Hill — and played the conversation for Hi...
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Sep 26, 2012 · Paul Sorvino as Paul Cicero in Goodfella’s Vario and his crew. In return, Vario paid him well and introduced him to other well known gangsters such as Tommy DeSimone, and an Irish mobster named James “Jimmy the Gent” Burke .
Sep 19, 2019 · Goodfellas, directed by Martin Scorsese, is of course a gangster classic. The Beatles of crime, in case you were wondering, is the Gallo Profaci wars, which launched the stories of The Godfather....
He begins working for local caporegime Paulie Cicero and his associates Jimmy "the Gent" Conway, an Irish-American truck hijacker and gangster, and Tommy DeVito, a fellow juvenile delinquent. Henry begins as a fence for Jimmy, gradually working his way up to more serious crimes.
Oct 11, 2022 · Paulie Cicero seems relatively "moral" compared to the other madcap gangsters in "Goodfellas." Yet he has one line that goes beyond the script.
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Mar 9, 2024 · At the head of the operation responsible for many of the crimes committed by Thomas DeSimone, Henry Hill, and James Burke was Paul Vario, renamed “Paul Cicero” and played by Paul Sorvino in Goodfellas. Vario was born in New York City in 1914 and began getting himself into legal trouble from an early age.
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