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Name: Vincente Gigante
Variant Name: The Chin
Birth Date: March 29, 1928
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: Gangster, assassin

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Biography of Vincente Gigante
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Among twentieth-century gangsters, few combined ruthlessness with bizarre personal habits quite like Vincent "the Chin" Gigante. A former hit man who climbed to the top of the New York crime world, Gigante ran the powerful Genovese family in the 1980s...


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Vincent "The Chin" Gigante (March 29,1928 – December 19, 2005) was a New York mobster who headed the Genovese crime family. Dubbed "the Oddfather," by the press, Gigante often wandered the streets of Greenwich Village, Manhattan in his bathrobe...


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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante, mob boss, dies in prison at 77
12/20/2005: 589 words, approx. 2 pages
RICHARD PYLE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 12-20-2005 Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante, mob boss, dies in prison at 77 -- Faked mental illness for decades in ruse to avoid conviction By RICHARD PYLE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Date: 12-20-2005, Tuesday...
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The Washington Post
Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante, 'Oddfather' Mob Boss, 77
12/20/2005: 504 words, approx. 2 pages
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante, 77, the head of the Genovese crime family who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers, feigning mental illness, died Dec. 19 at the federal prison in Springfield, Mo. He had heart disease....
 


 

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