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May 15, 2015 · Josephine Marchese Trafficante, the wife of reputed former Tampa organized crime leader Santo Trafficante, died in her sleep at home Wednesday, according to a paid obituary published by her...
His wife, Josephine, died in 2015 at the age of 95; he is survived by two of his daughters. After the death of his wife, the Trafficante family sold their Tampa 1970-built home for $950,000. In February 2016, many of Trafficante's personal belongings were sold at an auction in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Oct 17, 2021 · Santo Trafficante Jr. was a reserved, modest man married to the same woman for 49 years. But he was also the most powerful crime boss in pre-Castro Cuba, with influence that extended into Florida and the rest of the United States.
- Carly Silver
Jun 13, 2014 · Sandra Lansky, with her son Gary Rapoport on the porch of their Seminole Heights home, holds a photo of her father, Meyer Lansky. “They spolied me rotten,” Lansky says of the many mob men she ...
- Times Correspondent
Oct 9, 2005 · On Oct. 26, 1937, Frank Trafficante named his first son after his own father, Santo Trafficante Sr. The choice was nothing more than honoring a tradition. It has become a liability. "Even my...
Jun 18, 2024 · He married and started a family that produced four sons, most notably the one named Santo Jr. As the family grew, Trafficante Sr. immersed himself in the local crime scene, especially as it...
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Santo Trafficante Sr. was a Florida mobster who survived a series of vicious gang wars to become the leader of a powerful Mafia crime family based in Tampa. His son, Santo Trafficante Jr., took over the crime family and became tangled in a web of conspiracies to kill the leader of revolutionary Cuba and, it is rumored, President John F. Kennedy.
