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    John Roselli. John "Handsome Johnny" Roselli (born Filippo Sacco; July 4, 1905 – August 7, 1976), sometimes spelled Rosselli, was a mobster for the Chicago Outfit who helped that organization exert influence over Hollywood and the Las Vegas Strip. Roselli was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in a plot to assassinate Cuban ...

  2. Oct 22, 2021 · John Roselli Murdered, body found in a drum near Miami, floating in Dumbfundling Bay. 10 days before Roselli was scheduled to appear before a senate committe...

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  3. Jul 7, 1975 · Two weeks ago, Sam Giancana, 66, the onetime Mafia don in Chicago and Roselli’s friend since their days in the old Capone gang, was shot to death by persons and for reasons still unknown. Hot ...

  4. A one-time Hollywood producer who became a CIA assassin for hire at the height of the Cold War, Handsome Johnny Roselli could never be accused of living a sedate life. Sam Moore uncovers the life of this mysterious man. Chicago, The Windy City, 1938. (Photo: Ferdinand S. Hirsh)

  5. Aug 9, 1976 · MIAMI, Aug. 8 (AP)—The body of John Roselli, a key figure with San Giancana, the slain Chicago mobster. in a Central Intelligence Agency plan to assassinate Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba, has ...

  6. by Lee Server. Check out an excerpt from Lee Server’s Handsome Johnny, a vivid account of Johnny Rosselli’s astonishing fifty-year career.From the bloody years of bootlegging in the Twenties as the last protégé of Al Capone to the modern era of organized crime, the mob’s “Man in Hollywood,” introduced big-time crime to the movie industry.

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  8. Nov 12, 2018 · On July 28, 1976, “Handsome Johnny” Rosselli, a mobster who rose up through the ranks with Al Capone, had brunch with his sister in Miami before borrowing her car and driving to the marina.