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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.
Jun 18, 2024 · Born in Sicily in 1886, Santo Trafficante ultimately landed in Tampa just after the turn of the century. He married and started a family that produced four sons, most notably the one named Santo...
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...
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.
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Jun 13, 2014 · Life & Culture. Spoiled by mobsters, Meyer Lansky's daughter recalls family men, not killers. Sandra Lansky, with her son Gary Rapoport on the porch of their Seminole Heights home, holds a photo...
- Times Correspondent
The Trafficante crime family, also known as the Tampa crime family or the Tampa Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Tampa, Florida. The most notable boss of the family was Santo Trafficante Jr. who ruled Tampa and the crime family with an iron fist. [1]
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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.
