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Okay . Let's call it what it was then . Dirty money.. loan sharking isn't exactly honest ways of making money by beating and ultimately killing in some rare case's. And make a strong note here. The Italian Mafia linked to the American Mafia will never go away.... that thee mafia is still large and doing well. As in the past month ? Italian Police with the aide of the FBI. Just rounded up and busted 19 monster's from Italy to N.Y.C. and parts of Canada. Like Toronto and there has also recently as of earlier this summer a Canadian base Montreal Italian mob family feud happened where one guy in the construction industry there? Got taken out. There is plenty of Mafia out there still today it's just that they really aren't out there to draw attention unless ? Something of course goes? A bit side ways. Then the Joe public ? Hears about it. And if you live or have lived in the big city's in the Northeast ? Then chances are you've crossed paths a time or two with them and in some counts? Never even knew it on the streets. Ciao.
vincent parlante he saying this because when you need favors and string pulled . Political powers don’t care where the money has come from . Which made him realize there is no such thing as good or bad. As long as you got it and made something out of it
Luciano did not run prostitution,was running only the night clubs and what is called escort service today. He did not forced the women into prostitution.
@@JuniorNGU actually the amount of money in the video they made was wrong. I would know. They made 834 billion in today’s money. The internet only knows so much.
He had no sympathy fr cops.. Targeting police is always bad fr business. He even authorized to killed Shultz cuz Shultz wanted to killed Special prosecutor Dewey
@@sodapop83 According to what he said in his book the Last Testament of Lucky Luciano, it was Maranzano and his men; He wasn't abducted though. He drove himself to the meeting. Genovese insisted to come with him and hide in the trunk of the car in order to back him up if any thing went wrong but Luciano refused; He went by himself. Then, He met Maranzano near by the dock after midnight and it was all about killing Masseria. Maranzano wanted Luciano to be the guy who pull the trigger because Masseria was will protected and a hard target; He needed someone cloes to get the job done, but Luciano refused. Luciano said in his book" He hurt people pretty bad, but never murdered any one. As of orchestrating murders, yes he did". That was their conflect. As subsequense, Masked men came out of now where tied him up and start beating him and Maranzano was standing behind and kept telling him the beating would be stopped if he agreed to get the job done; He endured the beating and managed to free himself and jumped onto Maranzano and grabbed his nuts; Maranzano started screaming with pain '' kill him kill him" but before that could be done, Maranzano staggered to his feet and slashed Luciano's face with a knife and then one of the masked assailants took out a gun and aimed at Luciano. Suddenly, Maranzano snappped said '' No let him live. He'll do what has to be done or we will see him again"
It actually does.. In this world there is two ways to become rich. Be born into a rich family.. Or go from rags to riches.. Usually people who go from rags to riches have really fucked up backgrounds.. If you had a nice background forget about it.
My name is Melody Luciano Norris. Charles was my uncle. I would like to thank you for actually pronouncing our name correctly!!!!!!!!!!! Do you know how many people pronounce it Lucy anno? That drives me nuts! Anyhow, I would also like to thank you for pointing out some of his achievements that did better the world. A lot of people don't know those things about my uncle. He actually gave to charity rather frequently and was known to be generous. Starting young? Yeah well, all us Luciano's are young starters and believe in hard work from a very young age. So no surprise there! The dollar bill I found out about after the auction closed so I asked Christies to put me on a watch list for it in case it comes up again. I was actually a bit surprised about it myself. Seems my uncle had a few fans out there. Basically not much of this was new to me but I did enjoy how you presented Uncle Charles. Very classy.
Same. I am not even Italian, but I take Latin, and the word "Lucius" [Loo-shes] means light, so I know that when someone pronounces it like Lucy-anno, they are wrong and it makes me annoyed very much. Especially when watching the "Inside the Episode" segments on Boardwalk Empire. Terrence Winter pronounces it wrong all the damn time.
Il suo nome vero era Salvatore Lucani, quindi come fai ad avere come cognome il suo soprannome? His real name was Salvatore Lucani (not Luciano), so if he's your uncle, How can you have a surname which wasn't his real one? (Sorry for my english)
@@samuelebaldessari6469 UMM?? I think I know my own name!! LMAO!! We use the name Lucky Luciano when speaking to those outside of the family as most people don't recognize my uncle by his real name. If you were my cousin or what have you then I would refer to him by his real name. Also, when our family came to America we were given the name Luciano because Americans seem to have big troubles with understanding and interpreting the Italian language. By the way, it is Lucania and not Lucani! If you really want to question my name and drag it through the mud, you should do some research first!! LOL!! Our name comes from a region of Southern Italy called Lucania which is now the Basilicata region of Italy. Lucania meant land from which there is light. We are often referred to as Lucanians by the way. All that said, his real name is Salvatore Lucania. His mom was Rosalia Rosalina Capporelli Lucania BIRTH MAY 1866 • Lercara Friddi, Città Metropolitana di Palermo, Sicilia, Italy DEATH 8 AUG 1935 • Manhattan, Kings, New York, USA and his dad was Antonio “Anthony” Luciana BIRTH JUNE 28, 1858 • Lercara Friddi, Città Metropolitana di Palermo, Sicilia, Italy, Lercara Friddi, Provincia di Palermo, Sicilia, Italy DEATH JANUARY 05, 1935 • Manhattan, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA, New York, New York, United States That information was copy and pasted from my Ancestry tree. Notice that the name Lucania changes to Luciana on the Ancestry site? Yeah, there are literally a million versions of our name out there. On my grandma's side, we have the Pollinos. My family on that side shows up as Paulino, Paulina, Pollina, and Pollino. It is just the way it is in families from Italy. So we roll with it and play along with those who don't understand or don't care to understand. I simply cannot educate the entire world as to our family's life story, nor do I care to!! I just was commenting on here how nice it is that someone actually took the time to pronounce it correctly!! Sorry if you found that offensive but I'm sure there are worse things in life! LOL!!
Thank you for commenting. Thank you for sharing your family history. I'm interested in little known facts and characteristics of well known gangsters from the past. I have one question if I may... Did Charles "Lucky" Luciano have an unusual amount of espresso coffee throughout his day? Strange question, but I've heard this from somewhere and I wanted to verify from an authentic source. Thank you in advance for your response.
All of this stuff is pretty well documented,hardly unknown.But some of the photos used in the vid are pretty awesome,Ive never seen those before,so kudos for that at least!
1. The assault on Luciano was orchestrated by Maranzano, Maranzano was present and took part in the attack. This was because Luciano would not agree to kill Masseria personally, if he were to do that, Sicilian underworld law stipulated Luciano could not then make a push for the top seat himself. This was Maranzano’s insurance. Lucky refusing to agree to this confirmed him as a direct threat to Maranzano. He was only spared because he was one of the few people who could get close enough to Masseria as he was his 2IC at the time. 5. Luciano did not participate or encourage profiting from prostitution or drug trafficking on moral and practical grounds. He was charged and eventually sentenced with prostitution charges because it was the only charge they could make stick. It was later confirmed that witnesses falsified testimonies under indirect instruction of attorney general Thomas Dewey.
He won 213$ in a dice game when he was 12 or 13 and that’s when he decided he was going to the street to earn and stopped delivering hats, his only real job. I think that’s where Lucky came from
Do you think he didnt have children deliberatly because of the thought of the possibility they might get tortured or butchered for his crimes/sins,like the ultimate way to protect them is not to have them ?
Questi erano di origine ALBANESE. Napoli, Calabria e Sicilia sono tutte di sangue albanese e io sono ALBANESE-ITALIANO I nostri nonni sono emigrati da diverse parti dell'Albania dopo la morte di Skanderbeg .Un saluto dalla città di Tufino.
@@yungdie4250 Luciano once snitched himself. In 1922 he was found with a large quantity of heroine. Rather than go to jail he chose to gave up his supplier.
Love it, his real name was Salvatore Lucania, and he was the founder of the american Cosa Nostra and New York five families, also became "Capo di tutti capi" (Boss of all Bosses)
Eliazar Calzado Questi erano di origine ALBANESE. Napoli, Calabria e Sicilia sono tutte di sangue albanese e io sono ALBANESE-ITALIANO I nostri nonni sono emigrati da diverse parti dell'Albania dopo la morte di Skanderbeg .Un saluto dalla città di Tufino.
He did not get his nickname from surviving the beating and stabbing. You can find an article online in the archives of one of the NY papers that has his nickname of lucky just days after the attack. No way was he was given that nickname by his friends and then the NY papers knew about it just days later. He was called Lucky well before that event ever happened.
They have one of the most commonly known facts incorrect. Luciano worked for Masseria, NOT Marranzano!! It was Marranzano's men who kidnapped him, not Masseria's. This is something that is common knowledge and a very simple thing to check out. Innexcusable mistake.
6. Operation Underworld as it was called by the US Army was orchestrated completely by Luciano, Lansky, Anastasia and others. Anastasia had a brother with great influence in the waterfront union. They sabotaged an abandoned Vessel to create panic over suspected espionage on the New York shores. They then established who was tasked to address the problem and subtly nudged him in the direction of Luciano via the leader of the Fish Market. Entirely orchestrated by Luciano and other factions of the commission in order to achieve a plea bargain, which was almost successful. The only downfall was the conditions of release involving extradition.
Same info: But, never knew Sinatra and Luciano came from the same village. Wonder if Lucky ever smacked up old Blues Eyes and told him to act like a man.
In WW II it wasn’t just in Sicily where Luciano helped and there it was more Resistance organization with Le Cosa Nostre. It was so j the US and NYC specifically where he helped prevent sabotage on the docks through union cooperation against the type which foundered the SS Normandie.
Mark Bondar - well, it was Moretti who supposedly funded Sinatra, and since he was a Luciano/Genovese capo one could technically say Luciano (or the borgata as a whole) backed him financially...
@@tronsnow4763 I heard Moretti was the one who threatened Tommy Dorsey (I believe it was Dorsey) with Death (by shoving a gun in his mouth) if he did not release Sinatra from his contract.
When u talk about mob bosses, Capone, Gambino, nobody can ever compare to Salvatore Lucania, he was the king of Kings, he was the unofficial boss of all of America, nobody can ever come close to how much power he had at his peak, all by the age of 34. People talk about boss of bosses, Lucky was king of Kings, unbelievable how much power & influence he had. We Sir, salute you.
Charlie Lucky seemed to be an openminded spirit when it comes to crime. I have heard i he was not so much into classical rituals of the mafia. It says that Meyer Lansky adviced him to keep on doing blood oaths and such to retain the mystique in the mafia. I Think he was genuinely liked and admired by the younger generation of mobsters at that time. He still has a certain air around him. I guess it,s easy to glamorize him and that era, it,s fascinating when you have distance to it. When it comes to his nickname lucky i,ve heard it,s because his name was Salvatore Lucania. His friends called him Charlie Lucky. Lucky because of his last name. They did not call him Lucky Charlie. Later on in media it became Charles Lucky Luciano. But who really knows?
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No, it's the other way around. Joe Masseria was Lucky's boss. Lucky doublecrossed Joe Masseria by secretly joining Salvatore Maranzano and killing his own boss, Joe Masseria in 1931. Lucky secretly joined Maranzano on the condition that when Joe Masseria was dead, Salvatore Maranzano would agree to enact Lucky's vision of running the mob like a business and would stop trying to take over all crime in NYC by becoming the "boss of bosses" the way things were ran back in Sicily. Maranzano agreed.... at the time. After Masseria was killed, Maranzano broke his pledge and proclaimed himself the new "boss of bosses" at a post-war ceremony, where he made all the other bosses in attendance line up to kiss his ring. Lucky was secretly infuriated over this, but you would've never known it. That was Lucky Luciano's genius. He was the first mob boss who wasn't emotional and quick to anger. You could read the other bosses from a mile away, but never Lucky Luciano. A few months later, Lucky hit Maranzano and followed through on his vision of progress by establishing the Commission, where every crime family, no matter where they were in the country, had an equal say in matters. No more bosses of bosses. No more kings and empires. In other words, no more wars. From that point on, the Mob was a board of directors.
Lucky wasn't working for Maranzano, but the other side Massaria. He then double cross3ed Massaria, and organized his assasination. It was probabbly Maranzanos men who beat him up.
'' Did I ever kill anybody myself? Thats depends on how you look at it. If it means , did I ever pull the trigger and actually knock somebody off myself, then the answer is no. Nobody died from my gun. I managed to hurt a few people pretty bad, but no murder. On the other hand, if you look at it from the strict letter of the law, where an accessory or a guy who gives the orders to make a hit is just as guilty as the guy who pulls the trigger, then i guess i done my share" The Last testament of Lucky Luciano P 51
Awww sorry all of us who are lucky Luciano fans already knew these things. Lol. Next time try finding a gadget where he has his voice recording so we can hear what he sounded like lol
7. He did not flea to Cuba to avoid deportation. He was heavily guarded right up until he was transported to Sicily. He secured an additional passport before leaving New York and, after some months, in Italy - travelled to Cuba to discuss potential hotel operations with Lansky. His trip was cut short as authorities were made aware of his presence in Cuba and put pressure on the Cubans to deport him, this included embargo’s on medical deliveries from the US to Cuba. It was heavily suspected by Luciano and others that authorities were alerted by Genovese.
Regarding the drug premise of the meeting, nonsense. The matter was discussed, against Lucianos wishes. He knew he could not ignore the matter so simply reinforced his opinion that it was too much trouble and he didn’t want involved.
My man Lucky I love this guy for a lot of reasons, but one of the most important in my book. Is that he wasn't a racist fool like a lot of the Mafioso were back then. And a great many are still today he realized early on that the only color that they make money is green. And it didn't matter who's hands touched it even if they happened to be Black ones, you gotta love a smart cat like that.
Richie Ross - Luciano actually abolished that title/position. Salvatore Maranzano was the last person to officially call himself that (Genovese supposedly tried to bring it back and name himself that as well, but we all know how that turned out)
Genovese family came from Lucky's family. When Lucky went to prison Genovese was in charge, but he had to flee to Italy because he was going to be charged with murder. Frank Costello ran things while he was gone and when the witnesses ceased to exist Genovese came back and wanted his position back. He eventually tried to kill Costello using Vincent Gigante. Frank had enough and retired. Thus the Genovese family was born.
Here's one thing not too many people know about lucky and I'll say it with respect because the man was one in a million and won't use th he R-word, but unfortunately he once was what I'll say "a cooperating witnesses for the cops" You can look it up on his trail transcripts. Dewey really wanted to stick it to him at trail and exposed him for cooperating with them to put another gangster away. Thankfully it never got much attention and lucky got, well lucky. 😊
fact 16 im his blood relative lucky luciano is my blood relative cos some of my family including him lived/live in italy still and my closest male cousin who lives by me in england he spent his first 7 years of his life with lucianos family members and then him and some other of my family members moved to england
Joe The Boss was his boss not Salvatore Maranzano. Maranzano was going to kill Lucky but Lucky killed his own boss Joe and also Maranzano so he could split everything between 5 families instead of 2 fighting for money and turf
Al had a centralized control of Chicago. This came with lots of bribes & overhead. Al was on the board, Lucky was chairman. Lucky had a network including Cuba,Vegas, and LA .. not to take away from Al, who had almost as much power as the President at that time.
Frank Sinatra is from New Jersey ,but if you are referring to his heritage then his father is from Lercara Friddi which is the same place as Lucky Luciano.
Couldn't watch past the first thing because you got it wrong. Charles "Lucky" Luciano was apart of the Masseria crew during the Castellammarese War with Maranzano. But when it appeared that Masseria was losing the war, he switched sides and set up his former boss Joe Masseria's assassination, therefore winning the war for Maranzano. And as far as who jumped him, it was assumed it was Maranzano's men, but there has also been speculation that it was Masseria's guys and Masseria could make it appear it was Maranazano, therefore ensuring Lucky's loyalty to Masseria's family. But Lucky knew that if it was really Maranzano he would definitely be "sleeping with fishes." Lucky was much smarter than those 2 mustache petes.
Sometimes I wonder if Lucky Luciano ever noticed that Within a few years of all the hard work and danger he put himself in to organize the family's Into The Syndicate. That there was something strange about the fact his Jewish Pals Lansky Siegel and the rest wer living it up while he sat in prison after he accepted the advice of a Jewish lawyer Lansky provided to him. I don't know if anyone's ever found any evidence of it however I find it hard to believe that he wouldn't notice there was just something fishy about the fact he was the only one taken down by Thomas Dewey and his Jewish Buddies we're left alone.
I totally feel you bro.. In any mob or cartel (also ancient empires) I have always felt like the "leader" is just a target/scapegoat to all the other members who actually do the dirty work..
It’s because Luciano was the top of the food chain . And informants on the streets were pointing the finger and each racket and each crime all lead back to the orders of Luciano . Which put him in Dewys crosshairs . Meyer was not part of the syndicate. Which in law enforcement eyes would make him a seen like a pawn. Far from the case. When he got locked up and Genovese because the boss he fled Italy in 1 year due to a murder charge Dewys has all the evidence to convict him. Meyer and the syndicate in the end helped him get out years later
Bet Patrick Tate is on patreon for your channel 🤣 Not my thing but you are a success so I’m in the minority….again 🏴💜 I’ve had to edit this,I finished the video and it was 15 things,I did know about Lucky Luciano just in bullet point fashion,and your way of narrating this lightly nobody could hate this narrator ✌️
@Vaughn reed jr Sometimes I wonder if Lucky Luciano ever noticed that Within a few years of all the hard work and danger he put himself in to organize the family's Into The Syndicate. That there was something strange about the fact his Jewish Pals Lansky Siegel and the rest wer living it up while he sat in prison after he accepted the advice of a Jewish lawyer Lansky provided to him. I don't know if anyone's ever found any evidence of it however I find it hard to believe that he wouldn't notice there was just something fishy about the fact he was the only one taken down by Thomas Dewey and his Jewish Buddies we're left alone.
The Fockn - he would’ve probably been more suspicious of the four other (Italian) bosses instead: Mangano, Profaci, Bonanno, and Gagliano. Luciano was more publicly known than the others by a wide margin, so it’s doubtful he ever thought ab it that way...
Ok to all true Mafia fans we all heard the real voices recording of Al Capone and Meyer lansky now we all need to find a real voice recording of lucky. boy that would be worth some large money. Closes thing we have is him being recorded on a silent video. But we need the voice 😊 that will be swell!!!
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Comn me chris is an influencer
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"There's no such thing as good money, or bad money. There's just money."
-Charlie "Lucky" Luciano
Okay . Let's call it what it was then . Dirty money.. loan sharking isn't exactly honest ways of making money by beating and ultimately killing in some rare case's. And make a strong note here. The Italian Mafia linked to the American Mafia will never go away.... that thee mafia is still large and doing well. As in the past month ? Italian Police with the aide of the FBI. Just rounded up and busted 19 monster's from Italy to N.Y.C. and parts of Canada. Like Toronto and there has also recently as of earlier this summer a Canadian base Montreal Italian mob family feud happened where one guy in the construction industry there? Got taken out. There is plenty of Mafia out there still today it's just that they really aren't out there to draw attention unless ? Something of course goes? A bit side ways. Then the Joe public ? Hears about it. And if you live or have lived in the big city's in the Northeast ? Then chances are you've crossed paths a time or two with them and in some counts? Never even knew it on the streets. Ciao.
vincent parlante he saying this because when you need favors and string pulled . Political powers don’t care where the money has come from . Which made him realize there is no such thing as good or bad. As long as you got it and made something out of it
@@vinny57ish why explain matters to these peasant frattelo only shoulders they rubbed up with is people on trains..
I loved my Daddy...I never called him LUCKY LUCIANO tho
@@jennifermyers66 That's probably good considering his last name was Myers.
The fact that he didn't want a son because of his reputation hit me hard.
I thought his family disowned him because he brought shame to them.
🤣
Yeah but it’s what was best.
Hit you hard why?
Luciano did not run prostitution,was running only the night clubs and what is called escort service today.
He did not forced the women into prostitution.
"12 million a year not bad for a poor kid from Sicily" lol 12 million in the 1930s was equivalent to 185 million of todays dollars.
Thats true but that was only his gross income. His net income after bribing cops and politiciant, only 4 million
834 billion a year in today’s money
@@matthewkirkpatrick3067 Someone’s failed math 🤡
@@JuniorNGU actually the amount of money in the video they made was wrong. I would know. They made 834 billion in today’s money. The internet only knows so much.
@@JuniorNGU search it up he was worth 800 bill
I'm still waiting for the 15 things I don't know about Lucky Luciano...
Thats because you know too much 🤣
I know right
Evan you should have done a video.
Lol
HE DON'T KNOW NUTIN HE NEED A JOB AND A GIRL
With a policeman saving his life by finding him after he was left for dead may have been part of the reason he didn't authorize cop killings 🤔
Jah Rules - I think it’s just bad for business all around to the mob
Its because it brings on too much heat
He had no sympathy fr cops.. Targeting police is always bad fr business. He even authorized to killed Shultz cuz Shultz wanted to killed Special prosecutor Dewey
he said at one point it was the police who brutally attacked him. who knows really what is true or not after 90 years?
@@sodapop83 According to what he said in his book the Last Testament of Lucky Luciano, it was Maranzano and his men; He wasn't abducted though. He drove himself to the meeting. Genovese insisted to come with him and hide in the trunk of the car in order to back him up if any thing went wrong but Luciano refused; He went by himself. Then, He met Maranzano near by the dock after midnight and it was all about killing Masseria. Maranzano wanted Luciano to be the guy who pull the trigger because Masseria was will protected and a hard target; He needed someone cloes to get the job done, but Luciano refused. Luciano said in his book" He hurt people pretty bad, but never murdered any one. As of orchestrating murders, yes he did". That was their conflect. As subsequense, Masked men came out of now where tied him up and start beating him and Maranzano was standing behind and kept telling him the beating would be stopped if he agreed to get the job done; He endured the beating and managed to free himself and jumped onto Maranzano and grabbed his nuts; Maranzano started screaming with pain '' kill him kill him" but before that could be done, Maranzano staggered to his feet and slashed Luciano's face with a knife and then one of the masked assailants took out a gun and aimed at Luciano. Suddenly, Maranzano snappped said '' No let him live. He'll do what has to be done or we will see him again"
'Ruthless men get riches.' Quote : Proverbs King Solomon
Misquote: strong men retain riches.
*Power doesn't care about your background.*
Amen
Give power to a dumb person and he will lose his mind.
Give power to a criminal and he'll create a tyranny.
It actually does.. In this world there is two ways to become rich. Be born into a rich family.. Or go from rags to riches.. Usually people who go from rags to riches have really fucked up backgrounds.. If you had a nice background forget about it.
except if you're a present sjw
I see you on Sadghuru videos
The massarea killing kinda sounds like the Godfather killing in the restaurant
Matt Kacar almost the same, but lucky was inside the toilet when the killing happened, and let Bugsy Siegel and Anastasia to pull the trigger
And the Cuba conference didn't sound familiar to you because ?
Castellano was hit before he went into Sparks. Gotti was a prick. At least Luciano let Masseria eat first.
the godfather scene was inspired by that hit lmao
@@killermarfidyoh138 no, Luciano got inspiration after watching The Godfather 💯
Behind every fortune is a crime. Peace to Lucky Luciano!
My name is Melody Luciano Norris. Charles was my uncle. I would like to thank you for actually pronouncing our name correctly!!!!!!!!!!! Do you know how many people pronounce it Lucy anno? That drives me nuts! Anyhow, I would also like to thank you for pointing out some of his achievements that did better the world. A lot of people don't know those things about my uncle. He actually gave to charity rather frequently and was known to be generous. Starting young? Yeah well, all us Luciano's are young starters and believe in hard work from a very young age. So no surprise there! The dollar bill I found out about after the auction closed so I asked Christies to put me on a watch list for it in case it comes up again. I was actually a bit surprised about it myself. Seems my uncle had a few fans out there. Basically not much of this was new to me but I did enjoy how you presented Uncle Charles. Very classy.
Very interesting that he built a church. Did he have religious faith?
Same. I am not even Italian, but I take Latin, and the word "Lucius" [Loo-shes] means light, so I know that when someone pronounces it like Lucy-anno, they are wrong and it makes me annoyed very much. Especially when watching the "Inside the Episode" segments on Boardwalk Empire. Terrence Winter pronounces it wrong all the damn time.
Il suo nome vero era Salvatore Lucani, quindi come fai ad avere come cognome il suo soprannome?
His real name was Salvatore Lucani (not Luciano), so if he's your uncle, How can you have a surname which wasn't his real one? (Sorry for my english)
@@samuelebaldessari6469 UMM?? I think I know my own name!! LMAO!! We use the name Lucky Luciano when speaking to those outside of the family as most people don't recognize my uncle by his real name. If you were my cousin or what have you then I would refer to him by his real name. Also, when our family came to America we were given the name Luciano because Americans seem to have big troubles with understanding and interpreting the Italian language. By the way, it is Lucania and not Lucani! If you really want to question my name and drag it through the mud, you should do some research first!! LOL!! Our name comes from a region of Southern Italy called Lucania which is now the Basilicata region of Italy. Lucania meant land from which there is light. We are often referred to as Lucanians by the way. All that said, his real name is Salvatore Lucania. His mom was Rosalia Rosalina Capporelli Lucania
BIRTH MAY 1866 • Lercara Friddi, Città Metropolitana di Palermo, Sicilia, Italy DEATH 8 AUG 1935 • Manhattan, Kings, New York, USA and his dad was Antonio “Anthony” Luciana BIRTH JUNE 28, 1858 • Lercara Friddi, Città Metropolitana di Palermo, Sicilia, Italy, Lercara Friddi, Provincia di Palermo, Sicilia, Italy DEATH JANUARY 05, 1935 • Manhattan, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA, New York, New York, United States That information was copy and pasted from my Ancestry tree. Notice that the name Lucania changes to Luciana on the Ancestry site? Yeah, there are literally a million versions of our name out there. On my grandma's side, we have the Pollinos. My family on that side shows up as Paulino, Paulina, Pollina, and Pollino. It is just the way it is in families from Italy. So we roll with it and play along with those who don't understand or don't care to understand. I simply cannot educate the entire world as to our family's life story, nor do I care to!! I just was commenting on here how nice it is that someone actually took the time to pronounce it correctly!! Sorry if you found that offensive but I'm sure there are worse things in life! LOL!!
Thank you for commenting. Thank you for sharing your family history.
I'm interested in little known facts and characteristics of well known gangsters from the past. I have one question if I may...
Did Charles "Lucky" Luciano have an unusual amount of espresso coffee throughout his day? Strange question, but I've heard this from somewhere and I wanted to verify from an authentic source.
Thank you in advance for your response.
All of this stuff is pretty well documented,hardly unknown.But some of the photos used in the vid are pretty awesome,Ive never seen those before,so kudos for that at least!
1. The assault on Luciano was orchestrated by Maranzano, Maranzano was present and took part in the attack. This was because Luciano would not agree to kill Masseria personally, if he were to do that, Sicilian underworld law stipulated Luciano could not then make a push for the top seat himself. This was Maranzano’s insurance. Lucky refusing to agree to this confirmed him as a direct threat to Maranzano. He was only spared because he was one of the few people who could get close enough to Masseria as he was his 2IC at the time.
5. Luciano did not participate or encourage profiting from prostitution or drug trafficking on moral and practical grounds. He was charged and eventually sentenced with prostitution charges because it was the only charge they could make stick. It was later confirmed that witnesses falsified testimonies under indirect instruction of attorney general Thomas Dewey.
Perfect one
He won 213$ in a dice game when he was 12 or 13 and that’s when he decided he was going to the street to earn and stopped delivering hats, his only real job. I think that’s where Lucky came from
Drugs destroy. 💯🇮🇹
"I didnt want no son of mine to go through life as the son of Luciano the gangster." -Lucky Luciano
Thoughtful. 💯
So we got nothing when he died 4 kids he had
Do you think he didnt have children deliberatly because of the thought of the possibility they might get tortured or butchered for his crimes/sins,like the ultimate way to protect them is not to have them ?
Venereal Disease
Look at the shit Albert Francis "Sonny" Capone had to go through just because he was the only son and heir of Al Capone.
Ah Lucky! The legend! One of the most interesting people who have ever lived. Not to forget that he didn't get a fair trial. Gotta love him. RIP Lucky
He should of never took the stand that's what fucked him
Your right he didn't get a fair trial
Questi erano di origine ALBANESE. Napoli, Calabria e Sicilia sono tutte di sangue albanese e io sono ALBANESE-ITALIANO I nostri nonni sono emigrati da diverse parti dell'Albania dopo la morte di Skanderbeg .Un saluto dalla città di Tufino.
@@brunogenovese2602posa il fiasco bro
And he wasn't racist..... showed love to Bumpy Johnson....over Dutch Shultz
My dad
Bumpy was a rat fuck him why would he have love for a snitch
@@yungdie4250
According to number 13 of this video, so was Lucky
Jennifer Myers - Bumpy or Dutch was your father? Luciano (quite famously) didn’t have any children...
@@yungdie4250 Luciano once snitched himself. In 1922 he was found with a large quantity of heroine. Rather than go to jail he chose to gave up his supplier.
Love it, his real name was Salvatore Lucania, and he was the founder of the american Cosa Nostra and New York five families, also became "Capo di tutti capi" (Boss of all Bosses)
Eliazar Calzado
Questi erano di origine ALBANESE. Napoli, Calabria e Sicilia sono tutte di sangue albanese e io sono ALBANESE-ITALIANO I nostri nonni sono emigrati da diverse parti dell'Albania dopo la morte di Skanderbeg .Un saluto dalla città di Tufino.
Vincent Piazza played Lucky Luciano to a tee in the amazing HBO Series 'Boardwalk empire'. Great show!
Agreed,amazing show.
Agreed. I’m his 3rd cousin.
@@psychoseamstress8097 Whose cousin? Luciano's or Piazza's?
Emotional is dangerous -Charles Lucky Luciano
Where'd he say that
He did not get his nickname from surviving the beating and stabbing. You can find an article online in the archives of one of the NY papers that has his nickname of lucky just days after the attack. No way was he was given that nickname by his friends and then the NY papers knew about it just days later. He was called Lucky well before that event ever happened.
Yeah apparently he was great at gambling hence they gave him that way
His last name is Lucania which Americans pronounce with an emphasize on the luc. That combined with luck in gambling and you got yourself a nickname.
@@lordbunbury Didn't Jewish immigrants have trouble pronouncing his name and then the nickname came from it?
He also ALWAYS worked for Joe the Boss Masseria, and switched allegiance TEMPORARILY to Maranzano AFTER the death of Masseria.
He got the name cause they took him for a ride and he survived.
He was in fact deported back to Italy before he moved to Cuba
Lyra that is what I thought. He went to Cuba because they all met there for a meeting. In fact some said Frank Sinatra attended that meeting in Cuba.
They have one of the most commonly known facts incorrect. Luciano worked for Masseria, NOT Marranzano!! It was Marranzano's men who kidnapped him, not Masseria's. This is something that is common knowledge and a very simple thing to check out. Innexcusable mistake.
I can’t believe they made a video about me
Awesome photography for the 1920s
Can you do a video on Carlo Gambino?! 👌
Htown hold it down mex casarez can't read am American
@Htown hold it down mex casarez
Stfu
I liked his courage in exercises of the life he chooses for himself.
Had the biggest crush on Lucky such a handsome guy
6. Operation Underworld as it was called by the US Army was orchestrated completely by Luciano, Lansky, Anastasia and others.
Anastasia had a brother with great influence in the waterfront union. They sabotaged an abandoned Vessel to create panic over suspected espionage on the New York shores. They then established who was tasked to address the problem and subtly nudged him in the direction of Luciano via the leader of the Fish Market.
Entirely orchestrated by Luciano and other factions of the commission in order to achieve a plea bargain, which was almost successful. The only downfall was the conditions of release involving extradition.
Cool, you we're to. Last I read and heard as well as every historian's, that's a rumor that was never proven in any way.
My # 1 favourite mobster of all time.
Me tooo
An authentic entrepreneurial role model.
Cristian Anton Hahahaha...except for the fact that he was a criminal. But I definitely understand what you mean.
Facts
Number 17: *He had to do it to 'em*
Same info: But, never knew Sinatra and Luciano came from the same village. Wonder if Lucky ever smacked up old Blues Eyes and told him to act like a man.
In WW II it wasn’t just in Sicily where Luciano helped and there it was more Resistance organization with Le Cosa Nostre. It was so j the US and NYC specifically where he helped prevent sabotage on the docks through union cooperation against the type which foundered the SS Normandie.
Guys you got it all wrong......he worked for Joe the boss and was stabbed by maranzao then he killed joe and worked for marazano.
Not to mention the fact,it's also been proven that he was known as 'Lucky' before he was taken for a ride!
@@tintomara6209 I've heard the Lucky nickname came from Jews who mispronounced his given name.
Future billionaires? 👍👌 Right. Sure. Whatever you say.
@Timothy McCaskey I've heard that the Ace of Spades is known as "The Death Card". Is that true?
@Timothy McCaskey I see. Thanks for the information!
Ay fuck h bro
Yall all lame ass fuck
Some major inaccuracies in this video.
@bobdogg2010 Lucky also was NOT the guy who Financed Sinatra!!
Mark Bondar - well, it was Moretti who supposedly funded Sinatra, and since he was a Luciano/Genovese capo one could technically say Luciano (or the borgata as a whole) backed him financially...
@@tronsnow4763 I heard Moretti was the one who threatened Tommy Dorsey (I believe it was Dorsey) with Death (by shoving a gun in his mouth) if he did not release Sinatra from his contract.
Mark Bondar - yup, that’s where the story from Godfather originated from (Moretti was Costello’s cousin)
When u talk about mob bosses, Capone, Gambino, nobody can ever compare to Salvatore Lucania, he was the king of Kings, he was the unofficial boss of all of America, nobody can ever come close to how much power he had at his peak, all by the age of 34. People talk about boss of bosses, Lucky was king of Kings, unbelievable how much power & influence he had. We Sir, salute you.
Inaccurate info, Maranzano became Luciano’s boss after Masseria’s death, not before
True, and he wasnt the "Head of the Genovese crime family" either he was head of the Luciano Family. I dont know where they get these narrators from!
Thank you I was wondering if anybody else caught that
@@BradBrassman its because huis familie had bevolen named Genoveze familie sinds days of Genoveze till now
She got the 1st one wrong. Mazaria was his boss. Salvatore Maranzano was the one who beat him close to death.
Justin VanTso masseria
Wow! They never taught me this in school!
To me gangsters are interesting in the same way poisonous snakes are.
The next one should be about Meyer Lansky
1 thing the narrator doesn't know about Lucky Luciano. He didn't work for Salvatore Maranzano, he worked for Joe the Boss.
Lucky was a legend.
He was just struggling, a hard working Man! 😊
That's right ...he worked in a flower shop...😁😇😅🤣
“Hey Jerk-off, Lets get steak and eggs.” -Charlie Luciano. In Atlantic City, 1931.
Wow! Remember him from Boardwalk Empire! Love that show! Alux....please do a video about that incredible show!
@Htown hold it down mex casarez what its your point, genius?
I'd like to see my dad's movie yes play it
first he was called lucky before he almost got killed he had a talent for picking winners at the horse race
Charlie Lucky seemed to be an openminded spirit when it comes to crime. I have heard i he was not so much into classical rituals of the mafia. It says that Meyer Lansky adviced him to keep on doing blood oaths and such to retain the mystique in the mafia. I Think he was genuinely liked and admired by the younger generation of mobsters at that time. He still has a certain air around him. I guess it,s easy to glamorize him and that era, it,s fascinating when you have distance to it. When it comes to his nickname lucky i,ve heard it,s because his name was Salvatore Lucania. His friends called him Charlie Lucky. Lucky because of his last name. They did not call him Lucky Charlie. Later on in media it became Charles Lucky Luciano. But who really knows?
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Wow, the government received help to win the war with the help of a mobster. He was realistic( with his reasoning not to have children).
"He raked in around $120 million a year, equal to almost $120 million a year " ???
He earned 20millon dollars a year
I ment 120millon
Crazy had the mob mentality even as a kid
PUT THE SPEED ON 1.25, DON'T HAVE TO THANK ME.
ManWithNoNickname 2.0 is the way to go
ManWithNoNickname now a days most videos that share info has to be sped up
Lucky Luciano - the man who put the organized in organized crime
He had the name Lucky before that attack.
Luciano was boss in his early 30's. Capone was boss in his mid 20s. Capone was about 2 years younger than Luciano.
and your point is?
@@mariamercedesjarder9352 Capone yield much more powerful and at a younger age than Lucky. And had more money.
@@trevornoel9 Fair, but that doesn't reduce the significance of what Lucky accomplished.
No, it's the other way around. Joe Masseria was Lucky's boss. Lucky doublecrossed Joe Masseria by secretly joining Salvatore Maranzano and killing his own boss, Joe Masseria in 1931. Lucky secretly joined Maranzano on the condition that when Joe Masseria was dead, Salvatore Maranzano would agree to enact Lucky's vision of running the mob like a business and would stop trying to take over all crime in NYC by becoming the "boss of bosses" the way things were ran back in Sicily. Maranzano agreed.... at the time.
After Masseria was killed, Maranzano broke his pledge and proclaimed himself the new "boss of bosses" at a post-war ceremony, where he made all the other bosses in attendance line up to kiss his ring. Lucky was secretly infuriated over this, but you would've never known it.
That was Lucky Luciano's genius. He was the first mob boss who wasn't emotional and quick to anger. You could read the other bosses from a mile away, but never Lucky Luciano.
A few months later, Lucky hit Maranzano and followed through on his vision of progress by establishing the Commission, where every crime family, no matter where they were in the country, had an equal say in matters. No more bosses of bosses. No more kings and empires. In other words, no more wars.
From that point on, the Mob was a board of directors.
Apparently lucky did have a son but sadly never claimed him, his name was carmine, but who really knows 🤔🤔
Carmine , or Billy or maybe Jimmy lol
Carmine from "Laverne and Shirley"
Lucky wasn't working for Maranzano, but the other side Massaria. He then double cross3ed Massaria, and organized his assasination. It was probabbly Maranzanos men who beat him up.
They should make a movie about him in which James Franco should play him.
Yes! Good one! Wouldn’t have thought of him!
Luciano was godfather of " Criminal Serial Balling"! 👊😎
I am in awe of his swag!😣🙏
If i was bent enough to be a cop at the time absolutely I would take a bribe from Lucky Luciano without a shadow of a doubt.
'' Did I ever kill anybody myself? Thats depends on how you look at it. If it means , did I ever pull the trigger and actually knock somebody off myself, then the answer is no. Nobody died from my gun. I managed to hurt a few people pretty bad, but no murder. On the other hand, if you look at it from the strict letter of the law, where an accessory or a guy who gives the orders to make a hit is just as guilty as the guy who pulls the trigger, then i guess i done my share" The Last testament of Lucky Luciano P 51
The family wasn't named the Genovese family until after Lucky was deported back to Italy. Before that it was just The Luciano family.
Thank You... SMH
Lucky Luciano was my great great great uncle and my grandma used to sit on his lap when she was a kid and he would tell he jokes and make her laugh.
Das cool
I smell bs
@@RyuBerserker it’s not bs
Now my poysonal' business is all ovah' da' woild'. Who woulda' imagined dis' back in da' day?
I aspire to be like him!
😂😂
Awww sorry all of us who are lucky Luciano fans already knew these things. Lol. Next time try finding a gadget where he has his voice recording so we can hear what he sounded like lol
SLAVATORE MARANZANO was the one who tried to kill Lucky. Joe Masseria was his boss at the time.
Interesting. Thanks
Should do one on Frank Mathews The one who got away and ran 🇺🇸
# 10 is a lie - it was little davy patillo's gig and everyone would use Lucky's name.
😁
This is focusing more on his material possessions instead of the actual history and interesting facts
This channel is based on materialism it’s called alux for a reason
7. He did not flea to Cuba to avoid deportation. He was heavily guarded right up until he was transported to Sicily.
He secured an additional passport before leaving New York and, after some months, in Italy - travelled to Cuba to discuss potential hotel operations with Lansky.
His trip was cut short as authorities were made aware of his presence in Cuba and put pressure on the Cubans to deport him, this included embargo’s on medical deliveries from the US to Cuba. It was heavily suspected by Luciano and others that authorities were alerted by Genovese.
Regarding the drug premise of the meeting, nonsense.
The matter was discussed, against Lucianos wishes. He knew he could not ignore the matter so simply reinforced his opinion that it was too much trouble and he didn’t want involved.
My man Lucky I love this guy for a lot of reasons, but one of the most important in my book. Is that he wasn't a racist fool like a lot of the Mafioso were back then. And a great many are still today he realized early on that the only color that they make money is green. And it didn't matter who's hands touched it even if they happened to be Black ones, you gotta love a smart cat like that.
Lucky wasn't a member of the Genovese family he was Il capo di tutti capi
The last boss of bosses was Maranzano and he got popped because of it. Lucky was chairman of the commission
My dad
Right! Lucky never had to answer to Vito....Vito was a treacherous Bum!
Richie Ross - Luciano actually abolished that title/position. Salvatore Maranzano was the last person to officially call himself that (Genovese supposedly tried to bring it back and name himself that as well, but we all know how that turned out)
Genovese family came from Lucky's family. When Lucky went to prison Genovese was in charge, but he had to flee to Italy because he was going to be charged with murder. Frank Costello ran things while he was gone and when the witnesses ceased to exist Genovese came back and wanted his position back. He eventually tried to kill Costello using Vincent Gigante. Frank had enough and retired. Thus the Genovese family was born.
Here's one thing not too many people know about lucky and I'll say it with respect because the man was one in a million and won't use th he R-word, but unfortunately he once was what I'll say "a cooperating witnesses for the cops" You can look it up on his trail transcripts. Dewey really wanted to stick it to him at trail and exposed him for cooperating with them to put another gangster away. Thankfully it never got much attention and lucky got, well lucky. 😊
Should do 1 on Richard porter
Yes!
He was deported to Italy during the war before he went to cuba
After the war ended he was deported to Sicily. He sneaked into Cuba afterwards.
Lucky thee boss of all bosses the founder the builder may God of Mercy on his soul a good Patriot
fact 16 im his blood relative lucky luciano is my blood relative cos some of my family including him lived/live in italy still and my closest male cousin who lives by me in england he spent his first 7 years of his life with lucianos family members and then him and some other of my family members moved to england
Joe The Boss was his boss not Salvatore Maranzano. Maranzano was going to kill Lucky but Lucky killed his own boss Joe and also Maranzano so he could split everything between 5 families instead of 2 fighting for money and turf
He was born Salvatore Lucania.
Nothing new here. Any documentary on Luciano would have the same info.
I call bs on this list cause first of all Al Capone was the richest gangster of that time
Al had a centralized control of Chicago. This came with lots of bribes & overhead. Al was on the board, Lucky was chairman. Lucky had a network including Cuba,Vegas, and LA .. not to take away from Al, who had almost as much power as the President at that time.
@@davidporter7095 it was just a commission it's not like all or any of the others had to kick up money to lucky
Paul Ricca was the best of all Outfit bosses, imo
Interesting series. Thanks for sthe last videos !
With hard work, we can achieve anything in life! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Frank Sinatra is from New Jersey ,but if you are referring to his heritage then his father is from Lercara Friddi which is the same place as Lucky Luciano.
He was the Felix Gallardo of the Italian Mafia
Good shit! You said his last name right.
Couldn't watch past the first thing because you got it wrong. Charles "Lucky" Luciano was apart of the Masseria crew during the Castellammarese War with Maranzano. But when it appeared that Masseria was losing the war, he switched sides and set up his former boss Joe Masseria's assassination, therefore winning the war for Maranzano. And as far as who jumped him, it was assumed it was Maranzano's men, but there has also been speculation that it was Masseria's guys and Masseria could make it appear it was Maranazano, therefore ensuring Lucky's loyalty to Masseria's family. But Lucky knew that if it was really Maranzano he would definitely be "sleeping with fishes." Lucky was much smarter than those 2 mustache petes.
I would vote for him as president, he has the skill set and panache.
He would make a better president then the asshole in the white house now
Lucky was the Father of all Godfathers
And till this Day
Sometimes I wonder if Lucky Luciano ever noticed that Within a few years of all the hard work and danger he put himself in to organize the family's Into The Syndicate.
That there was something strange about the fact his Jewish Pals Lansky Siegel and the rest wer living it up while he sat in prison after he accepted the advice of a Jewish lawyer Lansky provided to him.
I don't know if anyone's ever found any evidence of it however I find it hard to believe that he wouldn't notice there was just something fishy about the fact he was the only one taken down by Thomas Dewey and his Jewish Buddies we're left alone.
I totally feel you bro.. In any mob or cartel (also ancient empires) I have always felt like the "leader" is just a target/scapegoat to all the other members who actually do the dirty work..
@@saulrojas9777 just look at El Chapo
@@J8den yeah el chapo is the exact example I think of.. He accuses the goverment of extorting him for money
It’s because Luciano was the top of the food chain . And informants on the streets were pointing the finger and each racket and each crime all lead back to the orders of Luciano . Which put him in Dewys crosshairs . Meyer was not part of the syndicate. Which in law enforcement eyes would make him a seen like a pawn. Far from the case. When he got locked up and Genovese because the boss he fled Italy in 1 year due to a murder charge Dewys has all the evidence to convict him. Meyer and the syndicate in the end helped him get out years later
Worst thing he did was take the stand!!!
Bet Patrick Tate is on patreon for your channel 🤣
Not my thing but you are a success so I’m in the minority….again 🏴💜
I’ve had to edit this,I finished the video and it was 15 things,I did know about Lucky Luciano just in bullet point fashion,and your way of narrating this lightly nobody could hate this narrator ✌️
He is Is pretty Awesome
But evil
funny men no worse than your government
@@squakrock or yours 😉
How was he evil
Do Arnold Rothstein. If your gonna do Luciano you gotta do AR.
@Vaughn reed jr Why though? AR is what made the mob organized.
@Vaughn reed jr Sometimes I wonder if Lucky Luciano ever noticed that Within a few years of all the hard work and danger he put himself in to organize the family's Into The Syndicate.
That there was something strange about the fact his Jewish Pals Lansky Siegel and the rest wer living it up while he sat in prison after he accepted the advice of a Jewish lawyer Lansky provided to him.
I don't know if anyone's ever found any evidence of it however I find it hard to believe that he wouldn't notice there was just something fishy about the fact he was the only one taken down by Thomas Dewey and his Jewish Buddies we're left alone.
The Fockn - he would’ve probably been more suspicious of the four other (Italian) bosses instead: Mangano, Profaci, Bonanno, and Gagliano. Luciano was more publicly known than the others by a wide margin, so it’s doubtful he ever thought ab it that way...
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Ok to all true Mafia fans we all heard the real voices recording of Al Capone and Meyer lansky now we all need to find a real voice recording of lucky. boy that would be worth some large money. Closes thing we have is him being recorded on a silent video. But we need the voice 😊 that will be swell!!!