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William "Billy Batts" Bentvena (February 22, 1933 – June 11, 1970), also known as William Devino, [2] was an American mobster with the Gambino crime family who was a longtime friend of John Gotti in the 1960s.
William "Billy Batts" Bentvena – also known as William Devino, Bentvena was a racketeer and drug smuggler. [272] His infamous murder by Thomas DeSimone was portrayed in the film Goodfellas. Carmine "Charley Wagons" Fatico – born in 1910, Fatico served as a capo and was an early mentor to John Gotti. Paolo "Paul" Gambino – born in 1904.
Billy Batts, or William Devino or whoever he really was, is an entirely separate person. Unfortunately the NYPD is probably the worst agency to try and get any records from so that route, particularly without a case number or even concrete identifying details, is a dead end.
In the book Wiseguy, Henry Hill said that after William "Billy Batts" Bentvena was released from prison in 1970, they threw a "welcome home" party for Bentvena at Robert's Lounge, which was owned by Burke. Hill stated that Bentvena saw Tommy DeSimone and jokingly asked him if he still shined shoes and DeSimone perceived it as an insult.
It was there that, on June 11, 1970, Burke and DeSimone murdered William Bentvena (also known as William "Billy Batts" Devino), a made man with the Gambino crime family and a close friend of Gambino family captain John Gotti.
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes married William "Billy" Evans secretly in 2019. The couple had their son, William, in 2021 and daughter, Invicta, in 2023. Elizabeth Holmes’s Husband Billy ...
Thomas DeSimone was born in New York City, New York, on June 6, 1946.He had two sisters, Dolores and Phyllis, and two brothers, Robert and Anthony. Both of his brothers were associates of the Gambino crime family; Anthony was murdered by mobster Thomas Agro in 1979.
A former pro wrestler has been accused of shooting and killing his wife in Portland, Oregon, police said.. William Albert Haynes Jr., 70, is in police custody at a hospital where he is being ...