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   Is Donnie Brasco based on a true story?

   • Donnie Brasco is based on the true story of FBI agent Joe Pistone, who infiltrated the mob in the late 70s and early 80s. The majority of the film is accurate, with only about 15% being dressed up by director Mike Newell.

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   Where can I find a book about Donnie Brasco?

   • Pistone, Joseph D. (1989). Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia, a True Story. New York: New American Library. ISBN 9780451157492. Pistone, Joseph D. (2005). The Way of The Wiseguy. Philadelphia: Running Press. ISBN 9780762423842. Pistone, Joseph D. (2008). Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business. London: Hachette. ISBN 9780786741199.

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   Who is Donnie Brasco?

   • Donnie Brasco is the alias of FBI agent Joe Pistone (Depp) who went undercover to work his way into the inner circles of two of the most dangerous and deadly mob families ever. From 1976 to 1981, Pistone assumed this identity and risked his life every day to get information on hundreds of gangsters in the Bonnano and Colombo families.

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   What happened to Donnie Brasco?

   • His pseudonym -- "Donnie Brasco." On July 27, 1981, the FBI terminated the operation and Pistone finally returned to his "real" family after years of total immersion as a faux jewel thief and mob crony.

   Still in seclusion, FBI agent Joe Pistone, the real 'Donnie Brasco

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   Pistone was a consultant on Donnie Brasco to add authenticity to the fictionalized portrayals and settings. His life was used in an episode of FBI: The Untold Stories. Pistone revisited his experiences as Donnie Brasco in his books The Way of the Wiseguy (2004) and Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business (2007, co-authored with Charles Brandt).

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   Jan 5, 2024 · Donnie Brasco is based on the true story of FBI agent Joe Pistone, who infiltrated the mob in the late 70s and early 80s. The majority of the film is accurate, with only about 15% being...

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   Dec 6, 2023 · Donnie Brasco True Story Explained. By Stephen Barker. Published Dec 6, 2023. Link copied to clipboard. Summary. Lefty Ruggiero, the central character in Donnie Brasco, was a real-life gangster deeply involved in organized crime, but the film only scratches the surface of his life and involvement in the Bonanno family.

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   Apr 2, 2024 · The former fed estimates that 85% of Donnie Brasco is completely accurate, which extended to the Pennsylvania-born Pistone being inducted into the mafia as a jewel thief and petty criminal from Florida.

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   May 25, 2022 · Is Donnie Brasco based on a true story? The film is based on the 1990 book D onnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia , which chronicles the real-life experiences of FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone, who went by the alias “Donnie Brasco” for six years as an undercover agent in the circles of the Bonanno Mafia Family, one of the five New ...

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   Jul 27, 2021 · "We proved that they weren't invincible," former FBI agent Joe Pistone, who spent six years undercover as "Donnie Brasco," told UPI from a secret location. By Don Jacobson

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   The film is based on the true story of Pistone (Depp), an FBI undercover agent who infiltrated the Bonanno crime family in New York City during the 1970s, under the alias Donnie Brasco, a jewel thief from Vero Beach, Florida.