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Gambino family factoids

- Carlo Gambino worked his way through the ranks of the Mafia, reaching boss status of one of the five New York crime families when then-boss Albert Anastasia is shot and killed in a Manhattan barbershop in 1957. Gambino is reported to have been responsible.

- When Gambino dies of cancer in 1976, his cousin Paul Castellano takes control of the family until John J. Gotti orchestrates the murder...

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