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Paul Vario (July 10, 1914 – May 3, 1988) was an American mobster and made man in the Lucchese crime family. Vario was a caporegime and had his own crew of mobsters in Brooklyn, New York.
Jun 4, 2018 · Though Goodfellas portrays Paulie Cicero as a calm, strategic mob boss, his real-life counterpart Paul Vario had a hair-trigger temper. One revealing story, recounted in Wiseguy, involved Vario and his wife Phyllis, who went out for dinner one night at Don Pepe’s Vesuvio.
Aug 27, 2022 · According to Henry Hill himself in his memoir Gangsters and Goodfellas, while he was in jail after being sentenced for extortion in 1974, Tommy DeSimone (DeVito in Goodfellas) beat up and attempted to rape Karen, but at the time, Karen was having an affair with Paul Vario.
Paul Vario mug shot. In 1962, Paul Vario was released from prison and became a made man in the Lucchese family, and then he quickly was promoted to the caporegime of the Brooklyn crew. Vario operated from an old German bar known as Geffken's on Flatlands Avenue and a Junkyard on Avenue D in Canarsie, Brooklyn.
Oct 11, 2022 · Later on in the book, Hill says that Paul Vario found out about this attempted rape and that was what finally convinced him to kill DeSimone as retribution for the Batts affair.
May 5, 1988 · Paul Vario, a convicted gangster who was said to have been a leader in the Lucchese crime family for more than three decades, died of lung failure Tuesday in a Fort Worth Federal prison, where...
Paul Vario received four years for helping Henry Hill obtain a no-show job to get him paroled from prison. Vario was also later sentenced to ten years in prison for the extortion of air freight companies at JFK Airport.
Paul "Paulie" Vario (9 July 1914 – 3 May 1988) was a caporegime in the Lucchese crime family of the American Mafia. Vario led a crew in East New York, New York City, and this crew carried out several heists at the JFK International Airport during the 1960s and 1970s.
Feb 28, 2024 · Hill started his career carrying cash from debtors to Paul Vario, a Lucchese capo (a mafia captain). By the time he was arrested for drug charges in 1980, Hill helped plan multiple heists and was involved in murder cover-ups. Hill’s addiction to cocaine makes him a more paranoid, volatile character.
Nov 22, 2023 · Paul Frank Paulie Vario (July 9, 1914 May 3, 1988) was a caporegime, a made man in the American Mafia. He was portrayed as Paul Cicero by Paul Sorvino in the Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas. Paul Vario was born in New York City, where he later became a member of the Lucchese Crime Family.
