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Dec 28, 2015 · Anthony was killed by Gambino gangster Thomas Agro, who also claimed responsibility for killing Tommy Two-Guns. Agro was caught on a wiretap threatening Joseph "Joe Dogs" Ianuzzi, video below, who'd flipped after Agro nearly beat him to death.
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On December 18, 1974, DeSimone killed Ronald Jerothe, a protégé of then-Gambino associate John Gotti. DeSimone had dated Jerothe's sister and had beaten her up, prompting Jerothe to threaten to kill him. When DeSimone heard about the threat, he went to Jerothe's apartment and killed him. [citation needed]
Jul 27, 2015 · DeSimone is thought to have been killed on January 6, 1979, when Martin Krugman, the person responsible for telling Henry Hill about the Lufthansa money went missing. Several scenarios have come to light describing why Tommy was murdered.
- How Tommy Desimone Entered The Mob
- Why Henry Hill Thought Tommy Desimone Was “A Total Psychopath”
- Tommy Desimone’S Involvement in The Lufthansa Heist
- Tommy Desimone’S Disappearance and Death
Although he was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1950, Thomas “Tommy” DeSimone grew up in New York, surrounded by mobsters. His uncle and grandfather were both major figures in organized crime, and his brothers ended up becoming associates of the Gambino crime family. Even one of his sisters, Phyllis, would end up involved with the mob, becoming...
Cold-blooded violence would follow Tommy DeSimone — and get him into trouble, in an infamous incident that was depicted in Goodfellas. According to Henry Hill, it all went down in May 1970, when the crew was holding a party at Robert’s Lounge, Jimmy Burke’s bar, for William “Billy Batts” Bentvena, a made man in the Gambino family who had just been ...
In spite of (or maybe because of) his casual brutality, Tommy DeSimone remained an important part of Paul Vario’s crew. And when Jimmy Burke needed someone to help him carry out the biggest heist in United States history at the time, he included DeSimone in his plan. Together, Burke, DeSimone, and several other mobsters and mob associates carried o...
In January 1979, 28-year-old Tommy DeSimone suddenly disappeared. He has never been seen since then, and he was declared legally dead in 1990. Officially, no one knows exactly what happened to him. But according to several sources within the Mafia, he was murdered in revenge for the killing of Bentvena and Jerothe. Henry Hill maintains that John Go...
Jul 20, 2017 · Accompanied by several associates, including Parnell “Stacks” Edwards (played by Samuel L. Jackson) and Tommy DeSimone (played by Joe Pesci), he managed to steal $5 million in cash and an additional $875,000 in jewelry from John F. Kennedy Airport.
Jan 14, 2017 · For years, the New York Police Department and the FBI believed that DeSimone had either been murdered by Burke, or that he was in hiding to avoid being killed. His brother-in-law, Lucchese family member Joseph “The Barber” Spione, also disappeared shortly afterward.
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Mar 9, 2024 · In 1979, almost a year after the heist, DeSimone was declared missing. He was likely killed by the Gambino crime family in retaliation for the murder of Bentvena, and also because he’d recently killed a Mafia associate named Ronald Jerothe, who was a protégé of a rising star named John Gotti.
