On this day in 1972 the son of Salvatore Inzerillo was born in Brooklyn. Giovanni Inzerillo’s father was a notorious Sicilian mob boss who was killed in 1981, during the Second Mafia War, at the hands of the Corleonesi.

Giovanni’s brother was also killed at the young age of 14, by orders from Toto Riina, for wanting to avenge his fathers death. Apparently they hacked his arm off (symbolic act with the arm he vowed to shoot Riina with), and then shot him in the head.

The whole of the Inzerillo family had to move to the US, in an intervention from the Gambino Crime Family who made a deal with the Corleonesi in order to let the relatives take refuge in the US and never return to Sicily.

Giovanni ended up returning in 2000, and lived in his fathers house.

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