Date of Birth
15 June 1908,
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Date of Death
19 June 1975, Chicago, Illinois, USA (gunshot)
Birth Name
Gilorma Salvatore Giancana
Nickname
Mooney
Momo
Spouse
| Angeline De Tolve |
(23 September 1933 - 1954) (her death) 3 children |
Trivia
Gained notoriety as head of the Chicago family of the Mafia.
Father of novelist/writer Antoinette Giancana.
His relationship with Phyllis McGuire was the basis of the HBO movie Sugartime (1995) (TV). His other paramours included Judith Campbell Exner whom acted as a go-between for Giancana and John F. Kennedy.
A strongman for Al Capone, he was classified 4-F (unfit for military service) deemed a "constitutional psychopath" with "strong antisocial trends."
Is portrayed by Peter Friedman in Power and Beauty (2002) (TV)
Is portrayed by Tony Curtis in Mafia Princess (1986) (TV), by Carmine Caridi in Ruby (1992), by Raymond Serra in Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair (1993) (TV), by Rod Steiger in Sinatra (1992) (TV) and by John Turturro in Sugartime (1995) (TV)
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