Phrase used to indicate an extremely powerful Mafia boss
This article is about the organized crime position. For the 2007 Italian TV series and the 2001 American TV movie, respectively, see Il Capo dei Capi and Boss of Bosses. For other uses, see Capo (disambiguation).
Capo dei capi (Italian:[ˈkaːpodeiˈkaːpi]; "boss of [the] bosses") or capo di tutti i capi (Italian:[ˈkaːpodiˈtuttiiˈkaːpi]; "boss of all [the] bosses") or Godfather (Italian: Padrino) are terms used mainly by the media, public, fiction writers and law enforcement community to indicate a supremely powerful crime boss in the Sicilian or American Mafia who holds great influence over the whole organization. The term was introduced to the U.S. public by the Kefauver Commission in 1950.[1]
Capodeicapi (Italian: [ˈkaːpo dei ˈkaːpi]; "boss of [the] bosses") or capo di tutti i capi (Italian: [ˈkaːpo di ˈtutti i ˈkaːpi]; "boss of all [the]...
Il CapodeiCapi (The Boss of the Bosses) is an Italian biographical crime drama miniseries which debuted on Canale 5 between October and November 2007...
capo, capo-, or capotasto in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Capo or capos, may refer to: Capo, short for Caporegime, a rank in the Mafia Capodei capi...
As early as his teens, Gotti was running errands for Carmine Fatico, a capo in the Gambino family, then known as the Anastasia family under the leadership...
of crime bosses in Wappingers Falls, New York, and declared himself capodeicapi ("boss of all bosses"). Maranzano also whittled down the rival families'...
become known as the Bonanno crime family. He briefly attained the title capodeicapi (boss of bosses) of the Sicilian-American mafia, after Giuseppe Morello...
Initially, Maranzano intended each family's boss to report to him as the capodeicapi ("boss of all the bosses"). However, this led to his assassination that...
old Morello crime family, was selected to replace D'Aquila as the new capodeicapi that winter. After his elevation, Masseria began applying pressure to...
another Rastelli loyalist capo. Both men were themselves threatened by another faction seeking to depose the absentee boss led by capos Alphonse "Sonny Red"...
played Ciccio Coniglio in five episodes of the 2007 TV mini-series Il CapodeiCapi, and Maresciallo in the 1999 movie il pesce innamorato, directed by...
television series Barbarians. He also starred in Malèna (2000), Il CapodeiCapi (2007) and Baarìa (2009). He is from Agrigento, Sicily. "Gaetano Aronica...
more greedy and hidebound than Masseria had been, declaring himself capo di tutti capi (boss of all bosses); as a consequence, Luciano arranged Maranzano's...
crime bosses in Wappingers Falls, New York, where he declared himself capo di tutti capi ("boss of all bosses"). Maranzano also whittled down the rival families'...
crime bosses in Wappingers Falls, New York, where he declared himself capo di tutti capi ("boss of all bosses"). Maranzano also whittled down the rival families'...
Cadavers. He was played by Vincent Riotta in the 2007 mini-series Il CapodeiCapi. He was portrayed by Sergio Vespertino in the 2016 Italian TV series...
of John Gotti in 1992, Gigante came to be known as the figurehead capo di tutti capi, the "Boss of All Bosses", despite the position being abolished in...
form a special taskforce to capture him, and the Mafia, headed by the capodeicapi, Don Croce Malo, whose interests and influence have been damaged by...
influential Sicilian crime family in New York City and was recognized as capo di tutti capi (boss of bosses) by Mafia leaders in other U.S. cities, according...
America is usually as follows: Boss of all bosses – also known as the capodeicapi or godfather (Italian: padrino), has been given by the media to the...
Succeeded by Vito Genovese Preceded by Vincent Mangano as boss of bosses Capo di tutti capi Chairman of the Commission 1951–1957 Succeeded by Vito Genovese as...
December 1930 meeting in Boston, Messina was selected to become a temporary capo di capi, by fellow mafiosi after stripping the title from Joe Masseria during...
known by the nicknames la belva ("the beast") and il capodeicapi (Sicilian: 'u capu di 'i capi, "the boss of bosses"). Riina succeeded Luciano Leggio...
ever let me hear this again, or I'll lose my temper. Genovese was now a capo of his former Greenwich Village Crew. However, on October 4, 1951, Moretti...
originated in the town of Corleone, and de facto the boss of bosses ("il capodeicapi"). His nickname was Binnu u tratturi (Sicilian for "Bernie the tractor")...
magazine L'Espresso put him on the cover with the headline: Ecco il nuovo capo della Mafia ("Here is the new Mafia boss"). Messina Denaro became a fugitive...
theatrical performance written and directed by Ruggero Cappuccio; Il CapodeiCapi (2007), TV series by Enzo Monteleone and Alexis Sweet, played by Gaetano...