Paul Castellano: Last News

They were the shots heard around the underworld. It has been 35 years this week since the most brazen mob hit, rivaling the Valentine's Day Massacre, and the most daring since the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, took place on a New York City sidewalk.

Netflix documentary Get Getti about infamous New York mafia boss John Gotti.The three-part documentary is streaming now on the platform, and “chronicles Gotti’s meteoric rise and crashing fall” from “the very mouths of those who brought him down”, per an official description.A more detailed synopsis adds: “It’s 1985 and John Gotti is the most powerful man in New York; he’s also the most surveilled. His public execution of ‘Boss of Bosses’ Paul Castellano sets in motion a series of events that catapults the young mobster to the helm of America’s most powerful mafia family.“As the tentacles of Gotti’s criminal enterprise extend deep into the heart of the city, law enforcement and state prosecutors scramble for their chance to bring the charismatic Godfather to his knees.”On social media, fans have been reacting to the series.

Nine days before Christmas 1985, feared Mafia Godfather Paul Castellano arrived for a meeting over dinner at Sparks Steak House in Midtown Manhattan.