The Last Mafioso: The Treacherous World of Jimmy Fratianno is a biographical novel detailing the life of American Mafia member Aladena "Jimmy the Weasel" Fratianno. It chronicles Fratianno's life from his childhood in Cleveland to becoming acting boss of the Los Angeles crime family. Author Ovid Demaris gained the information for the book from Fratianno himself in the early 1980s, where they spent hours recording the pair's conversations. Demaris also conducted his own research. The book was released on January 13, 1980 by Crown Publishing. It was the first of two biographical books written about Fratianno; the other is Vengeance is Mine (1987) by Michael J. Zuckerman.
TheLastMafioso: The Treacherous World of Jimmy Fratianno is a biographical novel detailing the life of American Mafia member Aladena "Jimmy the Weasel"...
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Los Angeles. TheLastMafioso described several instances during the time when the Los Angeles family would shake down movie producers in the porn industry...
Sicilian ancestors to varying extents. The word mafia originated in Sicily. The Sicilian noun mafiusu (in Italian: mafioso) roughly translates to mean "swagger"...
mobsters-turned-informants Jimmy Fratianno (TheLastMafioso and Vengeance Is Mine), Anthony Fiato (The Animal in Hollywood), and Kenny Gallo (Breakshot)...
allegations were made in the 1980s by Jimmy Fratianno in his book, TheLastMafioso. Arnaz denied these claims were true. He also produced the feature film Forever...
featured in TheLastMafioso: The Treacherous World of Jimmy Fratianno in 1981. Dragna was born in Corleone in Sicily in 1888. He was the middle child...
underboss of the Los Angeles crime family. He was featured in the book TheLastMafioso by Ovid Demaris. Joseph Dippolito was born on December 28, 1914...
hidden power brokers- Bloomsbury, 2006 The Kid Stays in the Picture a film about Robert Evans DeMaris, Ovid; TheLastMafioso: Jimmy "The Weasel" Fratianno...
Ovid. TheLastMafioso: The Treacherous World of Jimmy Fratianno. Bantam Books, 1981. ISBN 0-553-27091-5 Fisher, David. Joey the Hitman: The Autobiography...
in TheLastMafioso. The book related the life story of mobster Jimmy "The Weasel" Fratianno. The contested passage referred to an incident in the late...
DeMaris, Ovid. TheLastMafioso: Aladino "Jimmy the Weasel" Fratianno. New York: Bantam Books, 1981. ISBN 0-553-27091-5 Capeci, Jerry. The Complete Idiot's...
In the Mafia and TheLastMafioso by Ovid Demaris). However, the majority of crime historians view this as unlikely, as Lansky was at this time the head...
Demaris, Ovid. TheLastMafioso. New York: Bantam Books, 1981. ISBN 0-553-27091-5 Kwitny, Jonathan. Vicious Circles: The Mafia in the Marketplace. New...
translated as "boldness" or "bravado". In reference to a man, mafiusu (mafioso in Italian) in 19th century Sicily signified "fearless", "enterprising"...
Fratianno later claimed in his book TheLastMafioso that Manzie had been a Mafia associate who tried to put a contract on the life of a mob-associated tax attorney...
Union Tribune. Retrieved 25 August 2014. Demaris, Ovid (1981). TheLastMafioso: The Treacherous World of Jimmy Fratianno. Bantam Books. ISBN 0-8129-0955-0...
father's former positions in the family earned him the nickname "the Reluctant Prince". Fratianno wrote in TheLastMafioso that he felt Dragna was so busy...
nature about the Mafia and other gangland characters. He is most noted for TheLastMafioso, his biography of Jimmy Fratianno, and for The Green Felt Jungle...
Organized Crime in the United States. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000. ISBN 0-313-30653-2 Demaris, Ovid. TheLastMafioso, Bantam (November...
actor. Often cast as a mafioso, he is best known for his portrayal of Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on the HBO series The Sopranos. Pastore was born...
members. In Sicily, the proper term for a member of the Sicilian Mafia is in Italian uomo d'onore, or in Sicilian omu d'onuri. Mafioso and the plural mafiosi...
Demaris, Ovid. TheLastMafioso. New York: Bantam, 1981. ISBN 0-553-20230-8. Bureau of Narcotics, U.S. Treasury Department, "Mafia: the Government's Secret...
of prostitution". Nevada State Legislature. Demaris, Ovid (1981). TheLastMafioso. Times Books. p. 357. ISBN 0-8129-0955-0. Oliva, Mark (May 22, 1976)...
Michael R. Tham in the U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 Leagle. U.S. v. Tham. 948 F2d. 1107 (1991). Ovid Demaris. "TheLastMafioso - Part 2: Presser...
single "Last Nite" in 1995. Mafioso rap is a hardcore hip hop subgenre founded by Kool G Rap in the late 1980s. East Coast mafioso rap was partially the counterpart...