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John Gotti [1] [note 1] (/ ˈ ɡ ɒ t i / GOT-ee, Italian:; October 27, 1940 – June 10, 2002) was an American mafioso and boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City.He ordered and helped to orchestrate the murder of Gambino boss Paul Castellano in December 1985 and took over the family shortly thereafter, leading what was described as America's most powerful crime syndicate.
Don King's wife, Henrietta, died on December 2, 2010, ... King invoked the Fifth Amendment when questioned about his connection to mobster John Gotti. [45]
Castellano infuriated upstart capo John Gotti, who orchestrated Castellano's murder in 1985. Gotti's downfall came in 1992, when his underboss Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano cooperated with the FBI. Gravano's cooperation with the U.S. government sent John Gotti and most of the top members of the Gambino family to prison.
In the 1980s, former Gambino boss John Gotti – also known as the Dapper Don or Teflon Don – mingled with the stars and was a regular fixture in magazines and tabloid newspapers.
For years, mob boss John Gotti was The Teflon Don. One of his thugs would threaten a juror, a mouthpiece would pay off some guy, and everything went away. Extortion charges, murder raps ...
The wife and daughter of John Gotti Jr., the namesake son of the notorious New York mob boss John “Dapper Don” Gotti, are facing assault charges stemming from a fistfight with a woman at a ...
Goombatah: The Improbable Rise and Fall of John Gotti and His Gang by John Cummings and Ernest Volkman; Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family by John H. Davis; Boss of Bosses: The FBI and Paul Castellano by Joseph F. O'Brien and Andris Kurins; Frontline interview of Bruce Taylor in June 2001; Perlez, Jane (1984-04-10).
The mother-daughter Gotti duo allegedly slugged the woman and ripped off her wig while calling the other team's players "f-----ts and p---ies.''