Stefano Bontade (April 23, 1939 – April 23, 1981) was a powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia. His actual surname was Bontate. He was the boss of the Santa Maria di Gesù Family in Palermo. He was also known as the Principe di Villagrazia (Prince of Villagrazia) − the area of Palermo he controlled − and Il Falco (the Falcon).[1] He had links with several powerful politicians in Sicily, and with prime minister Giulio Andreotti. In 1981 he was killed by the rival faction within Cosa Nostra, the Corleonesi. His death sparked a brutal Mafia War that left several hundred mafiosi dead.
^(in Italian) Trent'anni fa l'assassinio di Bontade, La Repubblica, April 23, 2011
StefanoBontade (April 23, 1939 – April 23, 1981) was a powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia. His actual surname was Bontate. He was the boss of the...
Margherita Bontade (1900–1992), Italian politician StefanoBontade (1939–1981), member of the Sicilian Mafia This page lists people with the surname Bontade. If...
Palermo, Sicily. He was a member of the Santa Maria di Gesù family under StefanoBontade until his arrest, after which he became a justice collaborator. Gaetano...
then led by StefanoBontade, an influential member of the Sicilian Mafia Commission and a close ally of Ciaschiteddu. Contorno and Bontade used to be hunting...
Second Mafia War, which would start in 1981 after the Corleonesi killed StefanoBontade. Di Cristina's grandfather Giuseppe Di Cristina was a giant strong...
had two sons, Giuseppe and Giovanni. Inzerillo was a close ally of StefanoBontade and Gaetano Badalamenti and a relative of the New York City Mafia boss...
he was involved in professional boxing in his youth. Together with StefanoBontade, Salvatore Inzerillo and Rosario Riccobono, he was considered one of...
prolific cigarette smuggler. The Corleonesi's primary rivals were StefanoBontade, Salvatore Inzerillo and Tano Badalamenti, bosses of various powerful...
decision making of the DC. Mafia boss Francesco Paolo Bontade and later his son StefanoBontade sustained a close relationship with the Salvo cousins...
brother of Mafia boss StefanoBontade, who ruled the Santa Maria di Gesù Mafia Family in Palermo and second son of Francesco Paolo Bontade. He went to university...
April 1981, the Corleonesi murdered rival member of the Commission StefanoBontade, and the Second Mafia War began in earnest. Hundreds of enemy mafiosi...
were StefanoBontade, Salvatore Inzerillo and Tano Badalamenti, bosses of various powerful Palermo Mafia families. Between 1981 and 1983, Bontade and Inzerillo...
Calogero Bagarella and Bernardo Provenzano from Corleone, and members of StefanoBontade's family in Palermo, but also a soldier of Giuseppe Di Cristina's family...
assumed indirect control of StefanoBontade's Mafia family after his murder. Not long after, Greco invited a number of Bontade's allies for a meeting at his...
Sicily, and joined the Santa Maria di Gesù Mafia Family, headed by StefanoBontade. He was highly sought after by all Mafia families for his skills in...
80 murders in total and possibly as many as 300. Greco gunned down StefanoBontade, Salvatore Inzerillo, Pio La Torre and police officer Ninni Cassarà...
suspected of being one of the accomplices in the murders of the mafiosi StefanoBontade and Salvatore Inzerillo. He was arrested on April 1, 1990, and imprisoned...
Giovanni Bonomo (1935–2010) Francesco Paolo Bontade (1914–1974) Giovanni Bontade (1946–1988) StefanoBontade (1939–1981) Bernardo Brusca (1929–2000) Giovanni...
had ended with few convictions. The Corleonesi's primary rivals were StefanoBontade, Salvatore Inzerillo and Gaetano Badalamenti, bosses of various powerful...
initially ruled by a triumvirate consisting of Gaetano Badalamenti, StefanoBontade and the Corleonesi boss Luciano Leggio, although it was Salvatore Riina...
triggers the disdain of the mafiosi of Palermo, in particular bosses StefanoBontade and Giuseppe Di Cristina. On May 5, 1971, Riina orders the homicide...
Francesco Paolo Bontade (1914 – February 25, 1974), also known as Don Paolino Bonta, was a legendary and powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia. Some sources...
"Totuccio" Inzerillo, the Inzerillo Mafia clan was a historical ally of StefanoBontade, and were organizers of large trafficking of morphine from the Far...
when he was arrested with important Mafiosi like Gerlando Alberti, StefanoBontade and Rosario Riccobono. Soon after that he was arrested in Palermo with...
April 1981, the Corleonesi murdered a rival member of the Commission StefanoBontade, and the Second Mafia War began in earnest. Hundreds of enemy mafiosi...
pentito Giuseppe Marchese he was part of the hit team that killed StefanoBontade and he strangled Santo Inzerillo, the brother of Salvatore Inzerillo...
between for the Mafia boss StefanoBontade. He said: "When Vittorio Mangano got the job in the Arcore villa, boss StefanoBontade and some of his close aides...
was initially close to other important heroin traffickers such as StefanoBontade, Salvatore Inzerillo and Gaetano Badalamenti who opposed the rising...
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