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John Donato Torrio (born Donato Torrio, Italian: [doˈnaːto ˈtɔrrjo]; January 20, 1882 – April 16, 1957) was an Italian-born American mobster who helped build the Chicago Outfit in the 1920s later inherited by his protégé Al Capone.
Apr 12, 2024 · Johnny Torrio, Italian-born American gangster who was the rackets boss in Brooklyn before becoming a top crime boss in Chicago during the Prohibition era. Mentor of Al Capone and rival of Dion O’Bannion, Bugs Moran, and Hymie Weiss, Torrio was one of the founders of modern organized crime in America.
By Jordan Long. It seems like most famous American mobsters end their careers either with arrest or by going down in a hail of bullets…but not all of them. Johnny Torrio, an Italian-American gangster who rose to power in the 1920s, would survive both arrests and multiple gunshot wounds to retire.
Soon he returned to serve as a Consigliore to Capone’s Outfit and watched as his understudy became the most notorious gangster of all time. Johnny Torrio died April 16, 1957 from a heart attack while in New York. Back to Crime Library
Jun 8, 2015 · Giovanni “Papa Johnny” Torrio ran Chicago’s Mafia in the 1920s, building it from a prostitution racket into an illegal liquor empire. His feud with Irish-American bootleggers led to the worst violence in the history of American organized crime and paved the way for Al Capone.
Oct 14, 2009 · Some people think that Johnny "The Fox" Torrio retired from organized crime after he turned his crime empire over to a young Al Capone in 1925. Far from it. Many crime historians believe that Torrio’s most significant contributions to organized crime came years later, an opinion shared by Torrio’s contemporaries on the other side of the law.
Giovanni “Johnny” Torrio, aka: “The Fox,” was An Italian-American mobster who helped build the criminal empire known as the Chicago Outfit in the 1920s. Torrio was born in Italy in February 1882, and when his father died when he was two years old, he immigrated with his mother to New York City .
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