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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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   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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   Who is Donnie Brasco?

   • Wikimedia commons Undercover agent Joseph Pistone as Donnie Brasco, with the low-level wiseguy who took him under his wing, Benjamin “Lefty Guns” Ruggiero. After the FBI pulled Pistone from his deep cover in mid-1981, his evidence led to the imprisonment of over a hundred leading Mafiosi leading to the implosion of the American Mafia.

   The True Story Of "Donnie Brasco" And Joe Pistone's Mafia Infiltration

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   May 22, 2018 · Updated May 15, 2024. For six long years, Joseph Pistone abandoned his personal life and worked his way up the rungs of the Bonanno crime family as Donnie Brasco. “As I look at the ravaged state of New York’s Five Families and its Mafia Commission today, I feel more than satisfied that my unfinished business is finally finished.”

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   For the undercover operation, the false identity of Donald "Donnie" Brasco was created, with a backstory that involved work as a low-level jewel thief. [5] [1] After extensive preparation including FBI gemology courses, he went undercover as a jewel thief.

   • Children: 3
   • Years active: 1969–1986

   • Spouse: Maggie Pistone

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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. He picked that particular profession because it helped his backstory; it was a non-violent means of illegality, the practitioners regularly ...

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   Jan 5, 2024 · 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...

   • Director: Mike Newell
   • Occupation: Senior Features Writer

   • Actors: Al Pacino

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   Dec 6, 2023 · 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. The relationship between Lefty and Donnie Brasco was close in real life, mirroring their portrayal in the film.

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   Jul 27, 2021 · July 27, 2021 / 5:45 AM. Still in seclusion, FBI agent who was real 'Donnie Brasco' glad he took down Mafia 40 years ago. "We proved that they weren't invincible," former FBI agent Joe Pistone,...

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    Feb 1, 1997 · In Donnie Brasco, FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone tells the story of working so deep undercover in the Mafia that the truth of his identity became blurry even for him. For six years, Pistone posed as jewel thief Donnie Brasco in order to pull off one of the most audacious sting operations ever.