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...church. When these arrangements failed, the dons were left to communicate with one another from outdoor phone booths?a far cry from the grand council meetings in luxury hotels. The vacuum in leadership and logistical planning opened the way for the sole cagey survivor of the old days?Carlo Gambino, 68, head of the largest family...
...five dons in power a decade ago, only one?Carlo Gambino?retains his position today. In the four other slots, the old bosses have not been officially replaced or the men who succeeded them?including Colombo?were not considered their equals. A measure of the scorn in which Colombo was held is revealed in the wiretap transcripts of a conversation between New Jersey Boss "Sam the Plumber" DeCavalcante and his underboss, Frank Majuri...
Eventually, Colombo engineered a truce between the warring Mafia factions. At the same time he added to his power in another way. Two of the Mafia bosses, Joe Bonanno and Joe Magliocco, decided to let a contract for the extinction of three of their rivals: Carlo Gambino and Thomas Lucchese of New York City, and Slefano Magaddino of Buffalo. Who should be picked for the job but enterprising...
Anna inherited Beni Immobili Italia after Carlo Bonomi, a millionaire who adopted her as a child, died in 1940. When a group of relatives challenged her inheritance on the grounds that Anna was Carlo's illegitimate child and thus not an heir under Italian law, she fought a hard court battle and won. After that, it was merely a matter of following in her father's footsteps. "I was his only child," Anna recalled recently for the Italian magazine Oggi (she refuses to see foreign journalists). "Often he would take me with him to visit his workshop...
Crack the Whip. She practices her father's religion during business hours only. Whereas Carlo was a lifetime lira-pincher who often rode the trains third class and packed his own lunch, Anna lives the life of an empress after work. She maintains an 11th century palace, a hunting lodge and a sumptuous apartment, all crammed with priceless paintings. She keeps her figure trim, dresses elegantly, and entertains salons full of jet-setters and visiting royalty...