Hill claimed that in "the week after Christmas," he and Burke had gone to Florida to straighten out a drug deal gone bad. Because of his mob connections, he was not made to pay his union dues, and received the position even though he was not old enough to drink. DeSimone and Gianco had an argument which led to DeSimone shooting Gianco on his thigh. Anthony and Robert had worked for the Gambino Mafia Family as associates. A friend and fellow Lucchese associate Henry Hill described Tommy as a pure psychopath. He committed his first murder at the age of 18 when he shot Howard Goldstein in cold blood as he walked down the street. Despite the oft-given date of death of January 14, 1979, the exact date of DeSimone's murder is uncertain. During the 1960s, Jimmy Conway introduced him to Paul Cicero's crew of the Lucchese crime family, and he became a drinker at 16, a car thief, and a skilled burglar; his burglary skills and his long limbs led to him being nicknamed "Spider". DeSimone pulled out one of his Colts and shot him three times in the chest. His surname is an Italian compound name composed of Gianni "God is gracious" and Franco meaning "free"." Just as in the movie, DeSimones crew helped him bury the body, stopping at DeSimones mother house with the body still in the trunk. By the age of 16, he was an alcoholic who drank Sambuca in the morning while working. He was going to be made. He would finally be someone that other mobsters had to respect. [15], It has been theorized DeSimone is buried in The Hole, a suspected "Mafia graveyard" on the Brooklyn-Queens border near Kennedy airport, where the body of Al Indelicato was found in 1981 and where the bodies of Philip Giaccone and Dominick Trinchera were recovered by police in 2004.[16][17]. She is an Audiovisual Communication graduate who wanted to be a filmmaker, but life had other plans (and it turned out great). DeSimone was a man who did not like to be insulted. Thanks! Hes a psychopath with a hair-trigger temper. His uncle and grandfather were both major figures in organized crime, and his brothers ended up becoming associates of the Gambino family. On some occasions, he perceived jokes about him as insults. His body was buried in the lounge's basement. When she's not writing, you can find her trying to learn a new language, watching hockey (go Avs! During the 1960s, Air France was the carrier of American currency that had been exchanged in Southeast Asia. Not a Howard Stern fan, but it would be interesting to see. This gave their relative Michael much hardship when growing up. Michael Gianco was born in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York Cityin 1954 to a family of Italian immigrants from Olbia, Sardinia. Another account told by Hill stated that Gotti killed Desimone himself in the presence of Agro. As for what happened to Giancos body, Burke was so pissed at DeSimone for killing him that he ordered him to dig a hole in the cellar of the bar (Roberts Lounge, owned by Burke) and bury him there, but his remains were never found. Historica Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. Instead, Edwards parked the van in front of a fire hydrant at his girlfriend's apartment, where police discovered it two days after the heist. DeSimone had two sisters, Dolores and Phyllis, and two brothers, Robert and Anthony. Goodfellas is based on a true story, and as such, it features many characters based on real-life gangsters, while others were a combination of them so, was Michael Imperiolis character, Spider, also a real person? before beating him bloody. DeSimone had dated Jerothe's sister and had beaten her up, prompting Jerothe to threaten to kill him. DeSimone grew up in New York surrounded by mafia influences. DeSimone's fourth murder, according to Hill, occurred when he and another associate named Stanley Diamond got carried away after being asked to "rough up" a witness to a robbery. The mugshots of Henry Hill and Paul Vario. He spent all day around Robert's Lounge collecting numbers and selling fireworks, credit card fraud, selling beer to minors and preparing coffee and sandwiches for high-stake card games. DeSimone began working for Paul Vario around the age of 15, becoming involved in truck hijackings, dealing and fencing stolen property, extortion, fraud, and (of course) murder. Burke had Cersani's body buried next to the bocce court behind Robert's Lounge. Spider's real name was Michael Gianco, and he became associated with the Lucchese family sometime in the 1960s. Several of his cousins from his father's side pursued a career in organized crime (it is thought that they were low-level associates that served in the Bonanno crime family). Gianco dropped out of school at an early age to pursue a life of crime. When DeVito told Gianco to dance his way back to the table, Gianco told him to fuck himself. After some weeks, DeSimone joked to Gianco about his wounded leg and Gianco didn't take so well so he told DeSimone to 'go fuck himself. In 1994, Hill, in his book Gangsters and Goodfellas, gave an expanded story of the events leading up to DeSimone's death, which was in part due to Tommy's trying to rape Hill's wife, Karen. Jimmy praised Spider, which angered Tommy, who shotSpider multiple times, killing him. Also, another person had been murdered and buried within the saloon, who was Michael Gianco, popularly called the 'Spider'. His grandfather became the boss of the crime family while his uncle replaced a deceased member which made him the second family member to assume control of the Los Angeles family. He then met henry hill through Vario and they did quite a few criminal schemes together. The argument was amusing to the rest as they started laughing, but that only made Tommy angrier, who continued yelling as Spider left to get his drink. That kind of impulsive violence would follow DeSimone and get him in trouble later in an incident that was depicted in Goodfellas. After DeSimone shot Gianco in the foot, Anthony Stabile personally took him to see a doctor. His family eventually settled in Queens. Related: Goodfellas: The Mafia's Rules & Code of Honor Explained. On May 17, 2007, episode of The Howard Stern Show, Hill reaffirmed that Gotti had killed DeSimone. [6] Burke decided on DeSimone, McMahon, Angelo Sepe, Louis Cafora, Joe Manri, and Paolo LiCastri as the robbers. I know this because I was friends with the associates brother and the brother showed me the burial area in his basement. His troubled family life involving organized crime shows many similarities with his executioner Thomas DeSimone's family. Officially, no one knows what happened to him. Mafia & Gangsters: Michael "Spider" Gianco, famously gunned down by Tommy DeSimone 4,177 views Nov 26, 2016 Here's the link to the article:. He killed a warehouse foreman named Stanley Diamond who DeSimone was just supposed to rough up. ): Missing. It has been assumed that Tommy DeSimone was buried in a suspectedmafia graveyardon the Brooklyn-Queens border near Kennedy Airport. Another murder of DeSimone got played in Goodfella movie, where DeSimone had murdered Michael Spider Gianco, by putting three bullets in the chest. Source: Wikipedia. According to Sal Polisi, DeSimone was killed by Agro in the presence of Gotti. Sorry, this post was deleted by the person who originally posted it. Michael passed away in 1970, at age 16. While hijacking, DeSimone would always carry his gun in a brown paper bag. The airline had contracted to return the money to the U.S. for depositing with American banks. A family friend named Jimmy Burke guided him to participate in few rackets and trained him to become a successful mafia. According to Sal Polisi, DeSimone was killed by Agro (in the presence of Gotti), and that Agro slowly tortured him to death. A few weeks later, Gianco ran into DeSimone again, this time wearing a leg cast. He also added that the death "took a long time," as Bentvena had been a personal friend of Gotti's, and he wanted DeSimone to suffer before he died. McMahon suggested that they should just walk in, as people often came to the terminal to pick up lost baggage. Breakfast food is life and coffee is what makes the world go round. Like many other characters in Goodfellas, Spider is based on a real-life person, and according to the real Henry Hill, his death in the movie happened just as it did in real-life. Burke, enraged, made DeSimone bury Gianco in the unfinished section of the basement in Robert's Lounge. Devino was a feared gunman and had killed several people, but Tommy had earned respect as well and didnt take verbal punishment from anyone. Vario subsequently ordered DeSimone to kill Edwards. The Real Story Of Tommy DeSimone The Psycho Gangster Behind Joe Pescis Goodfellas Character. His early life at what Hollywood depicts. Kenya's Machete-Wielding Mungiki Gang Is One Of The Scariest In The World, What Stephen Hawking Thinks Threatens Humankind The Most, 27 Raw Images Of When Punk Ruled New York, Join The All That's Interesting Weekly Dispatch, Ray Liotta as Henry Hill, Robert De Niro as James Jimmy the Gent Conway (Jimmy Burke), Paul Sorvino as Paul Paulie Cicero (Paul Vario), and Joe Pesci as Tommy DeVito (Tommy DeSimone) in the 1990 film. In Goodfellas, Imperioli plays Michael "Spider" Gianco, whom Joe Pesci's character, Tommy DeVito, shoots in the foot for not getting him a drink. DeSimone and Hill went to Kennedy Airport with an empty suitcase. Murders of Gianco, Cersani, and Jerothe DeSimone's third murder, described by Hill, was of a young man named Michael "Spider" Gianco, who was serving as a bartender at a card game. DeSimone got so angry that he shot Gianco three times on the chest. In his adolescence he became a runaway youth. It was on 24 th May 1950 that Thomas DeSimone was born. A key scene in Tommy's arc in Goodfellas was when he killed Spider . Hill said in Wiseguy: "Remo put up some fight. At 11:40 pm, they entered the Air France cargo terminal. Henry Hill was with him and said, That was cold-blooded, Tommy! DeSimone replied, Well, Im a mean cat.. In "Goodfellas," Joe Pesci's Tommy DeVito is a complete psychopath. Gianco had a hostile relationship with Tommy DeSimone because of the respect Gianco had among the elder mobsters like Vario, Burke, Carmine Tramunti, Vincent Asaro, Bruno Facciola and Fredrick DeLucia. 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