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- He was an Italian- American mobster that worked as an associate of the Lucchese crime family of New York and was one of the real-life goodfellas.
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Apr 7, 2015 · “Tommy DeSimone always drove around in a brand-new car and wore expensive clothes, and he and Angela lived in a two-room tenement slum,” Hill told Nicholas Pillegi in Wise Guy. Angela’s brother...
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- How Tommy Desimone Entered The Mob
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- Tommy Desimone’S Involvement in The Lufthansa Heist
- Tommy Desimone’S Disappearance and Death
Although he was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1950, Thomas “Tommy” DeSimone grew up in New York, surrounded by mobsters. His uncle and grandfather were both major figures in organized crime, and his brothers ended up becoming associates of the Gambino crime family. Even one of his sisters, Phyllis, would end up involved with the mob, becoming...
Cold-blooded violence would follow Tommy DeSimone — and get him into trouble, in an infamous incident that was depicted in Goodfellas. According to Henry Hill, it all went down in May 1970, when the crew was holding a party at Robert’s Lounge, Jimmy Burke’s bar, for William “Billy Batts” Bentvena, a made man in the Gambino family who had just been ...
In spite of (or maybe because of) his casual brutality, Tommy DeSimone remained an important part of Paul Vario’s crew. And when Jimmy Burke needed someone to help him carry out the biggest heist in United States history at the time, he included DeSimone in his plan. Together, Burke, DeSimone, and several other mobsters and mob associates carried o...
In January 1979, 28-year-old Tommy DeSimone suddenly disappeared. He has never been seen since then, and he was declared legally dead in 1990. Officially, no one knows exactly what happened to him. But according to several sources within the Mafia, he was murdered in revenge for the killing of Bentvena and Jerothe. Henry Hill maintains that John Go...
Oct 11, 2022 · Joe Pesci's Tommy DeVito in "Goodfellas" was a perpetual bachelor with a violent intensity that seemed to be grounded in an inferiority complex. In real life, though, Thomas Desimone was a big...
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Jul 27, 2015 · He was an Italian- American mobster that worked as an associate of the Lucchese crime family of New York and was one of the real-life goodfellas. Tommy or “Two-Gun Tommy” because he always had two guns, had three siblings, a sister named Delores and two brothers, Robert and Anthony DeSimone.
Mar 9, 2024 · The story comes courtesy of the 1986 nonfiction bestseller Wiseguy that detailed the life of Lucchese crime family associate Henry Hill, as well as his comrades like James “Jimmy The Gent” Burke and Thomas DeSimone, and their involvement in the infamous Lufthansa heist.
Jul 20, 2017 · Nicknamed “Two-Gun Tommy” or “Tommy D,” DeSimone too stepped into the world of crime early in his life, joining Paul Vario’s crew in 1965, and according to Henry Hill, he committed his first murder two years later, when he was only 17 years old.
Mar 9, 2024 · Thomas DeSimone served as the inspiration for “Tommy DeVito,” the Goodfellas character played by Joe Pesci in an Academy Award-winning performance. Unlike Pesci, however, DeSimone was an imposing man who stood 6’2″ and weighed 225 pounds.
