ROME -- Italy's government on Wednesday, Aug. 10, dissolved the municipal administration of Corleone, the Sicilian town known around the world as both a real and fictional stronghold of the mafia.

In early 2024, a post on X went viral with a claim that real members of organized crime were involved in the making of the 1972 movie "The Godfather." "The mob actively followed the actors and ...

PALERMO, Sicily - In the end, Italy's No. 1 fugitive and reputed Mafia "boss of bosses" was done in not by an informer or a rival gangster, but by clean laundry.

How, from 1974 to 1993, Totò Riina (1930-2017), supreme boss of the Corleone family, ruled by blood and terror over the Sicilian Mafia. An implacable account, based ...