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Article: Revealed: the real Tony Soprano ; HOME
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 16, 2007
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Tony Soprano may be America's most famous fictional gangster. But
his exploits, and his modus operandi, are positively cultivated
compared with those of the real mobsters on whom he and his family
are modelled, according to US police records.
There have long been competing theories for the original
inspiration behind Tony. One group of experts on organised crime who
examined the evidence picked one Michael Taccetta, a boss of the
Lucchese family in New Jersey - Tony's fiefdom on the TV series
which last week started its final season - until he was jailed in
1993.
Both wielded power ruthlessly, both lived in opulent suburban
homes. Both too can lay claim to the title of thinking man's ...