Fanucci isn't a Southern Italian surname and in fact suggests a surname from Tuscany or Northern Italy.Don Fanucci was killed during the Feast of San Rocco.A previous indication of this was that gangster/bookmaker Frank Pignattaro never paid tribute to Fanucci.ĭon Fanucci is believed to be based on Ignazio Lupo, also known as Lupo the Wolf, a Black Hand leader in Little Italy during the early 1900s. It was discovered, due to lack of interest or reprisals following Fanucci's demise that he had, in fact, fabricated the tales of his connections, or, at the very least, exaggerated them. Vito then took over Little Italy and treated it with far more respect than Fanucci had, for which he was respected by the local people. After the hit, Vito retrieved the money Fanucci had taken earlier in the day and then destroyed the gun, dropping the pieces of the gun down pipes of the apartment building. The sound of the gunshots was drowned out by loud music being played and fireworks being launched during a nearby parade. He then fired a killshot into Fanucci's mouth. Before Fanucci could react, Vito shot him in the cheek, terribly wounding him. When Fanucci arrived, Vito shot him once in the chest. He grabbed a gun he'd hidden in a chimney, wrapped in a towel as a makeshift silencer to muffle its report. Vito followed Fanucci to his apartment down the street, and prepared to execute him. Vito interpreted his ability to low-ball Fanucci as a sign of the latter's weakness, thus confirming his suspicion of Fanucci's vulnerability. Fanucci was impressed with Vito's courage, and offered him work. When Vito met with Fanucci, he offered only a fraction of the amount demanded - $100 of the $600 Fanucci expected. However, Vito, suspecting that Fanucci didn't have any muscle behind him, persuaded them to only give Fanucci $100 of the $600 that he demanded. When Vito told Clemenza and Tessio about Fanucci's demands, Clemenza and Tessio initially wanted to give in. Vito saw a chance to eliminate Fanucci and take his place. He collared Vito and threatened to turn them into the police unless they "wet his beak" or gave him a cut of their illegal profits, specifically by giving some of the dresses they had stolen to his three daughters. The wound was not fatal and Vito notes as Fanucci runs away, that he holds his fedora under his throat to prevent the blood from staining his signature cream-colored suit.įanucci got wind that Vito had taken part in several robberies with Pete Clemenza and Salvatore Tessio. He also indirectly lost his own job when Fanucci demanded that his friend Genco Abbandando's father provide employment for Fanucci's nephew, Sandiago.Ĭorleone watched Fanucci wander the streets without obvious protection, but took no immediate action, even after he saw several street toughs attack the man and cut his throat. Corleone witnessed Fanucci threaten to disfigure a young girl when her father refused to pay him. Fanucci demanded "protection" money from neighborhood businesses, and did not confine his demands to non-Sicilians, which is considered a sign of disrespect in the Mafia. He was believed to have connections with notorious gangster Maranzalla, which made him, in a sense 'untouchable'. Fanucci was a freelance Black Hand extortionist who operated in Hell's Kitchen, the neighborhood in which the young Vito Corleone lived at the turn of the century.
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