Mobsters with facial hair

Most mobsters don't have facial hair.

http://www.ibtimes.com/what-goodfellas-got-wrong-705683

"Moreover, DeSimone was tall, broad-shouldered and (unusually for a mobster) wore a moustache and long hair (the polar opposite of Joe Pesci)."

Who else, apart from DeSimone had facial hair while in the mob?

Stanfa did at some point. Persico did at some point. Little Allie Boy did at some point. Amuso & Casso did, but they were in disguise and on the run. Natale has/had facial hair but this may have been after he was in the mob.

Harry Riccobene

Charlie Carneglia

Mousie Massimino

bill bonanno

Me

Anthony Ruggiano

Greg Scarpa

The killer of Tommy DeSimone, Tommy Agro

Current Colombo consigliere Thomas farase

Frank martines

Wasn't this only while he was on the run?

Can't believe I forgot Scarpa.

Scarpa just didn't give a crap... imagine going and telling him to shave off the mustache.

Also, Lin Devecchio.. does he count? He certainly wasn't no agent so I guess he counts as a mobster.

joe ida.. zuckie had a pony tail..

Whats a zuckie?

Yes. He was hiding out with bikers.

The facial hair thing is the biggest myth out there (next to every made guy being a killer).

Farby and Prisco both wore mustaches at one time or another, so did TJ up in Mount Vernon. And even Gigante would go weeks without shaving (but I admit that he was a special case because it was part of his act). There are others, but this is another one of those threads that we've had here before (although this might be the first such thread that wasn't started by Botz ).

I think Italian men in general just don't go in for the facial hair. It's not mutally exclusive to the Mafia.

Mustache Pete.


Hur.

i don't know if he is still living, he owned il cortile on mulberry, made guy with chin..nice guy

Carmine is still alive. So's Ninny, as far as I know.

.On the Chins wikipedia page ......... "He is also the uncle of Carmine Esposito, the son of Genovese crime family mobster Salvatore "Zooki" Esposito, who along with his brother Carmine "Nini" Esposito are the owners of "Il Cortile" restaurant in the "Little Italy" section of Manhanttan. Carmine (Zooki's son) was the subject of a documentary titled "Capturing Carmine." He was featured on America's Most Wanted after allegedly shooting a restaurant patron in New York City. Subsequently, Carmine was found not guilty of all charges related to the incident."

Wiki's unreliable. But that all checks out.

Are you sure that wasn't part of his toupee that fell onto his face?

Salt of the earth Italian name.

Was he a made guy? Or just a Philly associate?

I assume that all of them had eyebrows....or eyebrow.

I remember reading something that the romans had policies or practices of not wearing facial hair. (I can't remember where or when I read it.) Maybe it's a pretty old attitude...

Maybe you are just unfamiliar with 1970s porn.

I guess it is a myth but Lefty Ruggiero did insist on the Donnie Brasco book didn't he? Then again that was in the 70s...

Chicago members Rudy Fratto and Frank Caruso,

Fiction: Don Vito Corleone.

Non Fiction: Danny Greene