Raffaele Cutolo: Last News

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore’s vintage TV series “Il Camorrista,” starring Ben Gazzara as one of the fiercest bosses of the Neapolitan Camorra crime syndicate, is being unearthed from the vault 37 years after the mobster himself quashed the show before it aired. “Il Camorrista” was shot in 1985 as part of an innovative production mounted by Italy’s glorious Titanus shingle and Silvio Berlusconi’s ReteItalia. The production comprised both a Tornatore feature film by the same title and the five-episode TV show.

prison and ordered a raft of killings has been found dead in his cell.Raffaele Cutolo, a former leader of the Italian Camorra crime organisation, spent most of his adult life in jail.Cutolo died on Wednesday, February 17, aged 79, after suffering from pneumonia in Prama prison.Known as “The Professor”, he was first sent down after killing a young man who’d made advances on his sister.Cutolo was sentenced to 24 years in Poggioreale prison in Naples after committing his first murder in 1963.While inside, he earned the respect of more powerful inmates and challenged the then Camorra boss, Antonio Spavone, to a duel.After he failed to show up, one of Cutolo’s friend blasted Spavone in the face with a shotgun.Having established himself as a