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James Burke (July 5, 1931 – April 13, 1996), also known as "Jimmy the Gent", was an American gangster and Lucchese crime family associate who is believed to have organized the 1978 Lufthansa heist, the largest cash robbery in American history at the time. He was believed to be responsible for the deaths of those involved in the months after ...
Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical gangster film [5] directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is a film adaptation of Pileggi's 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy .
On 25 February 2021, The Dust Coda released their new single and music video "Jimmy 2 Times", a song based on the Goodfellas character of the same name, [22] which premiered via Ramblin' Man Fair in conjunction with an announcement that The Dust Coda would be playing the main stage at the festival on 17 July 2021.
The lawsuit alleged that in 1989 Sivero was living next door to writers from The Simpsons and the writers knew he was working on his Goodfellas character. It alleged that the writers "were aware that the entire character of 'Frankie Carbone' was created and developed by Sivero, who based this character on his own personality."
Henry Hill Jr. (June 11, 1943 – June 12, 2012) was an American mobster who was associated with the Lucchese crime family of New York City from 1955 until 1980, when he was arrested on narcotics charges and became an FBI informant.
Paul Vario was born on July 10, 1914, in New York City. [1] He grew up in South Brooklyn's Old Mill section. [2] In 1925, at age 11, Vario was sentenced to seven months in juvenile detention for truancy.
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She was born in New York City and raised on Long Island in Lawrence, Nassau County, New York, part of the Five Towns, [3] the daughter of Jewish parents. [4]In 1965, Karen Friedman met Henry Hill through Paul Vario, who insisted that Hill accompany his son on a double date at Frank "Frankie the Wop" Manzo's restaurant, Villa Capra.