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Vincent "Chin" Gigante |
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Vincent Gigante was an American criminal and Mafia
boss who faked mental illness by wandering the
streets of New York's Greenwich Village in a
tattered bathrobe, while mumbling incoherently
to himself, in a successful bid to avoid prison
for over 30 years.
The mob boss was nicknamed "The Oddfather," "Daffy
Don" and "The Pajama King" because of the aforementioned
behavior. In 2003, he admitted it was all a ruse to
avoid jail after he'd been convicted and sentenced
to prison.
He headed the Genovese crime family for more than
20 years, and tried in vain to have his archrival,
John Gotti, the boss of the Gambino crime family,
killed. The mobster died while serving a prison
sentence for conspiracy to murder other organized
crime figures, racketeering, as well as extortion
and other crimes. Vincent Gigante died at the same
prison hospital where John Gotti died a few
years earlier.
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Biographical fast facts |
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Date and place of birth: March 29, 1928,
Bronx, New York, U.S.A.
Date, time, place and cause of death: December 19, 2005,
at 5:15 a.m., U.S. Medical Center for Federal
Prisoners, Springfield, Missouri, U.S.A. (Heart disease)
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