Bugsy Siegel The mobster's flashy lifestyle required flashy duds, which Siegel had in bundles, including favorites like his checked sport coat with wide lapels and a perfect three-roll-two button stance.
Al Capone is perhaps the most notorious gangster of all time, and also one of the richest. During prohibition, Capone controlled the illegal alcohol, prostitution and gambling rackets in Chicago which brought in $100 million a year at its prime.
Matteo Messina Denaro (Italian pronunciation: [matˈtɛːo mesˈsiːna deˈnaːro]; born 26 April 1962), also known as Diabolik, is a Sicilian Mafia boss.
A woman who's the companion or conspirator to a gangster can be called a moll. One of the most famous molls was Bonnie Parker, of the criminal duo Bonnie and Clyde.
Dawood Ibrahim (/ɪbrəˈhiːm/ ( listen); (born 26 December 1955) is an Indian mafia gangster, drug kingpin, and a wanted terrorist from Dongri, Mumbai. He reportedly heads the Indian organised crime syndicate D-Company, which he founded in Mumbai in the 1970s.
The Genovese family is the oldest and the largest of the "Five Families".
A former beauty queen who shot to fame when she killed her husband's killer in Naples at the age of 18 and went on to become the first female boss in Italy's powerful Camorra mafia clan has died aged 86. Assunta Maresca, better known as Pupetta, or “Little Doll”, was the daughter of a notorious black marketeer.
Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime in the United States for the establishment of The Commission in 1931, after he abolished the boss of bosses title held by Salvatore Maranzano following the Castellammarese War. He was also the first official boss of the modern Genovese crime family.
Top 5 greatest gangsta rappers:
Of course, Dr Dre and MC Ren can be regarded as originators of the genre, but it was their counterparts, Ice Cube and Eazy-E, that really drove the point of gangsta rap home. Eazy-E is, without a doubt, the most notorious gangsta rapper of all.
Widely considered the father of modern organized crime in the United States, Lucky Luciano became the first leader of the powerful Genovese crime family. He helped form the governing body of the American mafia called the Commission that continues to exert power in the criminal underworld today.
Original Gangsters was formed in the Gothenburg suburb Bergsjön in 1993 by Denho Acar (alias "Dano" or "Djingis Khan") and two of his childhood friends. Denho Acar was born in Midyat, Turkey in 1974, to Assyrian parents, and his family moved to Bergsjön in 1985.
Boss – Also known as the capomandamento, capocrimine, rappresentante, don, or godfather, is the highest level in a crime family. Underboss – Also known as the "capo bastone" in some criminal organizations, this individual is the second-in-command.
Where does goombah come from? The word goombah is an Anglicized version of the Italian phrase cumpà or compare, which means “friend” or “godfather.” Many Southern Italian pronunciations of this word sound like “goombah” to English speakers.
Goomah — Mistress or girlfriend. It comes from the Italian comare, which means godmother or second mother.
Gangsters often keep their girlfriends in the dark about their criminal activities to protect them from reprisals and detection. But in some cases girls found themselves at risk of violence, including rape, by their own gang or rivals and believe they cannot turn to the authorities for help.
Experts believed Charles "Lucky" Luciano was the father of organised crime and hailed him as the model for legendary mafia boss Don Corleone, played by Marlon Brando in the Francis Ford Coppola movie based on the Mario Puzo book.
Capone was sent to Chicago and helped Torrio rid the city of their underworld competition. After Torrio retired, Capone became Chicago's de facto crime czar, running gambling, prostitution, and bootlegging rackets and expanding his territories by gunning down rivals.