Mikey "Flattop" DeRosa - Mafia Documentary
- Duration: 42:33
- Updated: 25 Nov 2014
Lucchese Crime Family Associate Mikey DeRosa was a drug dealing underling of Lucchese Soldier James "Froggy" Galione.If you like our videos and want to see more, please consider by the book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi using the link below. The Kindle eBook is only $7.99 http://amzn.to/VcgPK4
And Henry Hills book Gangsters and Goodfellas eBook $9.39
http://amzn.to/1qQeSxC
Thomas Anthony DeSimone (May 24, 1950 -- January 14, 1979), also known as Two-Gun Tommy or Tommy D, was a Sicilian-American gangster and associate of the Lucchese crime family in New York. DeSimone was a grandson and nephew of Los Angeles mob bosses, Rosario DeSimone and Frank DeSimone, respectively. He was married to Angelica "Cookie" Spione, but had many mistresses, including Theresa Ferrara. In Martin Scorsese's film Goodfellas, the character Tommy DeVito (portrayed by Joe Pesci) is based on DeSimone.Henry Hill, the low-level mobster turned FBI informant who was the basis of Martin Scorsese's seminal 1990 film "Goodfellas," has died at age 69, reports TMZ.
"He had a heart attack around the 27th of May, and he went into the hospital and it was really touch-and-go for a long time," Lisa Caserta, Hill's long-time girlfriend, told the New York Post. As she told TMZ.
Hill's "heart gave out."
Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1943, Hill's early life and rise up the mafia food chain was recalled with great detail in Nicholas Pileggi's 1986 book Wiseguy, an at-times first person account told in Hill's words. He became involved with the mob at age 12 and took his first arrest at age 16. In 1978, at 35, he participated in the Lufthansa heist at Kennedy Airport, the then-most expensive robbery in U.S. history. It earned Hill and his conspirators over $5 million.
After the Luftansa heist and a subsequent drug arrest, Hill became an FBI informant and testified against his former colleagues. He was placed in the Witness Protection Program with his wife, Karen.
"I get to live the rest of my life like a shnook," Hill famously said at the end of Wiseguy.
Pileggi and Scorsese adapted Wiseguy for the screen, and the result was "Goodfellas," one of the most quoted and lauded films of the last 25 years. Ray Liotta played Hill in the film, while Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci (who won an Oscar for his work) and Paul Sorvino co-starred as mobsters.
In the years after the events depicted in "Goodfellas," Hill would battle drug, alcohol and legal problems. He was arrested in Missouri in 2009 for drunken disturbance.
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Lucchese Crime Family Associate Mikey DeRosa was a drug dealing underling of Lucchese Soldier James "Froggy" Galione.If you like our videos and want to see more, please consider by the book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi using the link below. The Kindle eBook is only $7.99 http://amzn.to/VcgPK4
And Henry Hills book Gangsters and Goodfellas eBook $9.39
http://amzn.to/1qQeSxC
Thomas Anthony DeSimone (May 24, 1950 -- January 14, 1979), also known as Two-Gun Tommy or Tommy D, was a Sicilian-American gangster and associate of the Lucchese crime family in New York. DeSimone was a grandson and nephew of Los Angeles mob bosses, Rosario DeSimone and Frank DeSimone, respectively. He was married to Angelica "Cookie" Spione, but had many mistresses, including Theresa Ferrara. In Martin Scorsese's film Goodfellas, the character Tommy DeVito (portrayed by Joe Pesci) is based on DeSimone.Henry Hill, the low-level mobster turned FBI informant who was the basis of Martin Scorsese's seminal 1990 film "Goodfellas," has died at age 69, reports TMZ.
"He had a heart attack around the 27th of May, and he went into the hospital and it was really touch-and-go for a long time," Lisa Caserta, Hill's long-time girlfriend, told the New York Post. As she told TMZ.
Hill's "heart gave out."
Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1943, Hill's early life and rise up the mafia food chain was recalled with great detail in Nicholas Pileggi's 1986 book Wiseguy, an at-times first person account told in Hill's words. He became involved with the mob at age 12 and took his first arrest at age 16. In 1978, at 35, he participated in the Lufthansa heist at Kennedy Airport, the then-most expensive robbery in U.S. history. It earned Hill and his conspirators over $5 million.
After the Luftansa heist and a subsequent drug arrest, Hill became an FBI informant and testified against his former colleagues. He was placed in the Witness Protection Program with his wife, Karen.
"I get to live the rest of my life like a shnook," Hill famously said at the end of Wiseguy.
Pileggi and Scorsese adapted Wiseguy for the screen, and the result was "Goodfellas," one of the most quoted and lauded films of the last 25 years. Ray Liotta played Hill in the film, while Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci (who won an Oscar for his work) and Paul Sorvino co-starred as mobsters.
In the years after the events depicted in "Goodfellas," Hill would battle drug, alcohol and legal problems. He was arrested in Missouri in 2009 for drunken disturbance.
- published: 25 Nov 2014
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