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  1. Vito Genovese (Italian: [ˈviːto dʒenoˈveːze,-eːse]; November 21, 1897 – February 14, 1969) was an Italian-born American mobster involved with the American Mafia.A long-time associate and childhood friend of Lucky Luciano, Genovese took part in the Castellammarese War and helped shape the rise of the Mafia as a major force in organized crime in the United States.

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  2. Apr 16, 2024 · Vito Genovese (born November 27, 1897, Rosiglino, Italy—died February 14, 1969, Springfield, Missouri, U.S.) was one of the most powerful of American crime syndicate and Mafia bosses from the 1930s to the 1950s and a major influence even from prison, 1959–69. Genovese immigrated from a Neapolitan village to New York City in 1913, joined ...

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  3. On March 26, 1950, Philip Genovese, 18, son of Vito and Anna, driving his father’s car, crashed into a parked vehicle on Route 9 in Freehold, injuring five people. The initial newspaper report at the time erroneously stated that Vito was driving. The next day, March 27, 1950, Anna moved out of the Atlantic Highlands mansion with the kids ...

  4. Childhood & Early Life. Vito Genovese was born on November 21, 1897, in Risigliano, Tufino, Italy, to Nunziata and Felice Genovese. He was born as one among four children in the family and had two brothers and one sister growing up. When Vito was 15 years old, the family to Manhattan and settled there, where his father worked as an accountant.

  5. Anna Genovese (formerly Vernotico, née Giovaninna Petillo; 28 October 1905 [1] – January 1982) was an Italian-American businesswoman in the Italian mob and the second wife of mobster Vito Genovese of the Genovese crime family and the Costello crime syndicate. [2] She played a key role in Manhattan 's drag bar scene in the middle of the 20th ...

  6. Jun 23, 2022 · Vito Genovese, a top don who was instrumental in the Italian mob’s rise in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s, lived in three different homes along the Bayshore, the last two of which ...

  7. Jun 27, 2022 · Updated May 15, 2024. Vito Genovese rose through the ranks of the New York mob during Prohibition and eventually killed his way to the top of the city’s most powerful crime family before a few crucial blunders took him down. For decades, Vito Genovese was practically synonymous with the American Mafia itself. Born in rural Italy at the tail ...

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