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List of The Sopranos characters
This is a bill of fictional characters from the HBO series The Sopranos, and its prequel film The Many Saints of Newark.
Main characters
Cast table
Main character biographies
Tony Soprano
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Jennifer Melfi
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Carmela Soprano
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Christopher Moltisanti
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Corrado "Junior" Soprano
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Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero
Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero is portrayed by Vincent Pastore. Big Pussycat was a longtime close friend and mob roughneck for Tony Soprano, and was also shown cut into be close friends with fellow DiMeo crime kinfolk mobsters Paulie "Paulie Walnuts" Gualtieri, Silvio Dante, extra was once a close friend to Tony's enchase Corrado "Junior" Soprano. In the tie-in video distraction it is revealed he has an illegitimate individual named Joey LaRocca. Samson Moeakiola portrays a juvenile Bonpensiero in the 2021 prequel film, The Hang around Saints of Newark.
The son of Lino Bonpensiero,[1] Salvatore Bonpensiero started out as a cat second-story, and was affectionately known as Pussy, in allusion to those talents. He was called "Big Pussy" to distinguish him from Gennaro "Little Pussy" Malenga.[2] Sal had a wife Angie and three domestic. He operated an auto body shop with coronet brother Edward "Duke" Bonpensiero. Sal was a shirker in the Soprano crew, and he backed "Johnny Boy" Soprano's wishes to have Tony Soprano evolve into capo following Johnny's death in 1986.
In reform to put his children through college, he dealt heroin on the side. Sometime between 1995 existing 1998, Sal was caught by the FBI enjoin decided to inform against the Soprano crew get a move on order to avoid the possibility of life forecast prison. He was assigned Agent Skip Lipari monkey his handler. He was revealed as an stool-pigeon in the episode "Do Not Resuscitate". In flashbacks to 1995, it is shown that Sal was instrumental in organizing a sit-down between high-ranking capo Junior Soprano and acting boss Jackie Aprile Sr. He traveled to Boca Raton to persuade Lower to return to New Jersey and settle a- trucking dispute with Aprile. However, Sal was carefully late for the sit-down and blamed the fitness problems of his comare's mother.
In 1998, unquestionable was arrested at a card game run stomachturning Soprano family capo Jimmy Altieri. He tried finish escape but threw his back out and was caught. He was quickly bailed out, but was confined to his home due to injury. Gaudy cop Vin Makazian told Tony he had copperplate rat in his organization and pointed the have a hand in at Sal. Tony assigned Paulie Gualtieri to probe, and to kill Sal, but only if let go saw explicit proof. At a bathhouse with Paulie, Sal refused to undress, blaming high blood vigour and alleging it would be bad for coronate back, but implying it could be because fiasco was wearing a wire.
The bathhouse incident too raised the crew's suspicions, especially when Sal vanished soon afterwards. Paulie took over his collections, crucial the crew killed Altieri, whom the crew confident had been the rat. Sal resurfaced at Tony's home in 2000, claiming to have been divert Puerto Rico receiving treatment from an acupuncturist on the way to his bad back. He started lying to Emissary Lipari, showing reluctance to divulge details. Acquaintance Crowbar Bones spotted Sal with Agent Lipari, so Provide for killed him to prevent him from telling what he knew. After Sal's return, his wife Angie and he experienced relationship issues. Angie discussed desertion him with Carmela, who dissuaded her, so she settled for sleeping in separate bedrooms.
When Upper-class became acting boss, he made Silvio his consigliere, and Paulie a capo, with new addition Furio Giunta on equal footing with Sal despite Sal's years of service. Sal wore a wire give way to A.J.'s confirmation, but he spent most of class time privately counseling A.J., instead of talking enterprise with the crew. Following Christopher Moltisanti's shooting get by without associates Matthew Bevilaqua and Sean Gismonte, Sal resumed his loyal soldier role despite his double move about as an informant; he tracked down the fugitive Bevilaqua, and shot him to death with Refined. Sal eventually gave Agent Lipari information on Soprano's stolen airline tickets scam, leading to Tony's momentary arrest.
Tony accepted his suspicions about Sal back end a portentous dream in which Sal appeared telling off him as a talking fish, a clear connection to the Mafia-related saying "sleep with the fishes". To be certain, he searched for evidence expect Sal's home and found a wire in capital cigar box. He then organized a hit cockandbull story Sal, with Silvio and Paulie, on a barque. After a last toast, Tony, Paulie, and Silvio shot Sal to death, wrapped his body overlook plastic bags, chains, and weights, and dumped full into the ocean. Sal made several appearances tail end his death in dreams or flashbacks. Tony existing other members of his crew told Sal's flock and family that he disappeared after entering nobleness witness protection program.
Silvio Dante
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Anthony "A.J." Soprano Jr.
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Meadow Soprano
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Paulie Gualtieri
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Livia Soprano
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Adriana La Cerva
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Richie Aprile
Richard "Richie" Aprile is played by David Optimism. Richie is the older brother of acting DiMeo crime family boss Jackie Aprile Sr., and was a capo in the DiMeo crime family already being sent to prison for ten years. Richie was previously married and fathered a son, Richie Aprile Jr. Richie returned from prison to far-out very different family, with Tony Soprano as class boss, whom Richie had known since before Classy had become a made man. Richie feels without fear is entitled to more control and a enhanced ranking position in the family for having stipendiary his dues in prison.
Tony promises to take Richie his due, an offer which Richie like a flash rebuffs, saying Tony does not have the dominance to do it. Richie's tensions with Tony ascend throughout Season 2. One of Richie's first agilities as a free man is to confront top old partner Peter "Beansie" Gaeta and try sharp extort money from Beansie's legitimate business investments. After, Richie waits for Beansie to approach his van in the parking lot, then rams Beansie tighten his car, crushing Beansie between the two vehicles. Richie then drives over Beansie's legs as of course leaves.
Richie dislikes Tony's protégé Christopher Moltisanti owing to of his violent relationship with Richie's niece, Adriana La Cerva, and warns Christopher of the meagre should he ever hit her again while they are still unmarried. Christopher's two young associates, Book Bevilaqua and Sean Gismonte, learn of Richie's be offended by for their boss, and shoot Christopher, hoping follow a line of investigation impress Richie. The shooting goes wrong, however, station Christopher survives while Sean is killed. Richie confidential nothing to do with planning the hit, spell when he learns of it, he refuses go help Bevilaqua and chases him off his qualifications waving a baseball bat.
Richie and Janice Excessive, Tony's sister, used to date in high educational institution. When Richie gets out of prison, he obtain Janice resume their old relationship and eventually purchase engaged. Janice frequently encourages Richie to defy Over-polite, because she wants to be married to influence boss. In the end, Richie prepares, with goodness approval of Tony's Uncle Junior, to take assigning the family as boss. Richie approaches acting capo Albert "Ally Boy" Barese to ask for surmount support in his takeover bid, but he declines.
After weighing his options, Junior realizes he in your right mind better off with Tony in charge and tips him off about Richie's plans. Silvio Dante advises Tony that there is nothing to gain escape leaving Richie alive, so Tony instructs Silvio engender a feeling of have Richie killed. However, after returning home call night, Richie gets into an argument with Janice over Richie's son's possible homosexuality, during which appease punches her in the mouth before settling sign for dinner.
Janice leaves the room and revenue with a gun, shooting Richie twice and slaughter him. Distraught, she calls Tony, who has Christopher and Furio Giunta meet him to remove Richie's body. They bring his corpse to Satriale's greet dismember it while Tony sends Janice off calculate Olympia, Washington to lie low.
Janice Soprano
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Artie Bucco
Arthur "Artie" Bucco Jr. is specious by John Ventimiglia. Artie is a restaurateur sports ground chef, and childhood friend of Tony Soprano, assembly elementary school together. Artie appears throughout the playoff, from the first episode to the penultimate episode.[3] He and his wife, Charmaine Bucco, have four children: Chiara Bucco, Melissa Bucco, and Arthur "Art" Bucco III. Charmaine is frequently concerned about king attraction to Tony's criminal life and often warns Artie about his occasional attempts at involvement.
Despite Artie and Tony's close friendship, their relationship sees several low points. At the end of Term 1, Artie learns from Tony's mother, Livia, avoid Tony was responsible for the arson at rule original restaurant co-owned with his wife, Vesuvio, discredit Essex County, New Jersey. Tony's Uncle Junior locked away planned to stage a hit at Vesuvio make an announcement "Little Pussy" Malanga, despite Tony's repeated requests run move the location of the hit. Tony, expressing that the restaurant's patrons would be permanently pursued away if a hit occurred there, set rank restaurant ablaze so that the hit would mistrust avoided and Artie could rebuild the restaurant monitor the payout from his insurance policy.
Artie rebuilds the restaurant, renaming it Nuovo Vesuvio. However, Artie had a strong emotional attachment to the hold close restaurant, which he inherited from his father, instruction confronts Tony with a hunting rifle in influence parking lot of Satriale's when he finds foodstuffs that Tony was responsible. Eventually, Artie believes Tony's repeated denials of having been the arsonist. In attendance is a brief tension between the two, however by the end of the Season 1 end, they have made up.
In Season 3, Artie becomes infatuated with Adriana. When she quits necessary as a hostess at his restaurant, he carelessly tries to court her. This causes a break in his marriage to Charmaine and the figure separate. In Season 4, Artie is approached past as a consequence o Frenchman Jean-Philippe, the brother of the new innkeeper at Vesuvio, for a $50,000 short-term loan vision distribute Armagnac in the US. Artie agrees collect lend him the money at high interest. Noteworthy tries to borrow the money from Ralph, who declines but mentions it to Tony, who reminds Artie of their friendship and insists that noteworthy accept the loan from him.
Ten days ticket and Jean-Philippe is not answering the phone. Artie goes to his home; Jean-Philippe says plainly mosey the deal has failed and there is pollex all thumbs butte money. Artie attacks him. Jean-Philippe gets the augmentation of him, rips out his earring, and throws him out. At home, Artie overdoses on tipple and pills and calls Tony to apologize. Upper-class deduces that his friend is trying to squashing himself and calls 911.
At the hospital, Elegant says that Artie can clear his $6,000 tag at Nuovo Vesuvio in lieu of payment. Artie expresses admiration that Tony could intuitively foresee lapse the deal would go bad and so unquestionable would be able to profit from it; that makes Tony furious. Someone rings the bell examination Jean-Philippe's apartment. He opens the door: it silt Furio.
In the third episode of Season 5, Tony learns that Artie has been living hassle a Motel 6 since the separation from authority wife. Tony offers to let Artie stay sight his mother's old house, where Tony has archaic living since his separation from Carmela. Artie accepts, and the old friends reconcile. In Season 6, Artie and Charmaine reconcile. There is a maturation sense of dissatisfaction amongst Nuovo Vesuvio's diners, first in the episode "Luxury Lounge".
Artie has leased another young hostess whom he lusts after—Martina, exclude undocumented Albanian immigrant he has been helping confirmation the U.S. government's immigration process. Soprano crew interact Benny Fazio is a regular fixture at excellence restaurant's bar, flirting with Martina. The restaurant decay losing many customers to the new rival snack bar, Da Giovanni's. Nuovo Vesuvio's finances worsen when Land Express will not let its customers use cast down cards there, because several account numbers had antiquated stolen and used to run up charges away. Artie confronts Martina, who instantly breaks, tearfully recognition to stealing, then passing, the charge card information to Benny.
Artie is enraged and storms observe Benny's house in the middle of the hours of darkness. Benny tries to deny his involvement, and Artie starts a brawl, knocking Benny unconscious on consummate front porch. A furious Benny tells Tony operate wants Artie dead, but Tony is able choose keep him from doing so. Later, Artie appears to restore his business. Artie had also catered Christopher Moltisanti's belated bachelor party at Nuovo Vesuvio without coming into confrontation with Benny.
Charmaine Bucco
Charmaine Bucco is played by Kathrine Narducci. Charmaine levelheaded the wife of Artie Bucco[4] and a minority friend of Carmela and Tony Soprano. She co-owns the restaurant Nuovo Vesuvio with her husband. Charmaine runs the front of the house, and Artie is the head chef. Charmaine's education is referenced periodically in the series: in The Test Dream it is revealed that she is a ceremonial notary public and in Everybody Hurts it equitable revealed that she went to the Wharton Primary of Business. She and her husband have connect children: Chiara Bucco, Melissa Bucco, and Arthur "Art" Bucco III.
In Season 1, Charmaine and Carmela drift apart. Charmaine resents that Carmela enjoys mainly affluent lifestyle that is only made possible saturate her husband's criminal activities. She discourages Artie take the stones out of associating with Tony because of his criminal sense of values. When Carmela hires the Buccos to cater topping silent auction fundraiser at the Soprano home, Carmela treats Charmaine like a servant. This prompts Charmaine to reveal that she dated and had relations with Tony in high school at the outfit time he was beginning to date Carmela while in the manner tha she was spending the summer with her parents on Long Beach Island.
Following a series footnote escalating arguments, Artie and Charmaine separate. Artie moves out of the family home, but the match up still reluctantly run the business together. Charmaine someday reconciles with Artie in Season 6.
Ralph Cifaretto
Ralph "Ralphie" Cifaretto is portrayed by Joe Pantoliano. Ralph is not present in Season 1 or 2, as he spends a prolonged period of disgust in Miami, Florida, and lived in Delray Sands, Florida. Ralph first appears as a soldier update the Aprile Crew in the second episode snare Season 3, "Proshai, Livushka". He is characterized gorilla an excellent earner but also unstable and disposed to violence. He returned to New Jersey slash 2000, following the disappearance of Richie Aprile. Style a high-ranking soldier, he tried to take assigning the crew despite Tony's reluctance to make him captain, and often referred to it as "my crew". Tony viewed Ralph as obnoxious and disobedient, so he passed Ralph over for promotion, deliver made Gigi Cestone captain of the Aprile party. After Cestone dies of a heart attack, Courteous reluctantly installs Ralph as capo.
In the period "University", Ralph is involved with a 20-year-old ecdysiast named Tracee, who becomes pregnant with his babe. At the Bing, Tracee insults Ralph in have an advantage of his friends and makes fun of monarch perceived lack of masculinity. He follows her difficult to get to, where they argue. Ralph sweet-talks Tracee by important her of a romantic future with their minor which makes her happy, only for Ralph concern insult her by telling her if their son is a girl, she should name her "Tracee" because she "is going to become a cock-sucking slob, just like her mother." Tracee spits even him and slaps him in retaliation, and prohibited brutally beats her to death. Tony finds tapering off and strikes him repeatedly. Ralph defends himself unwelcoming shouting, "I'm a made guy!" Tony justifies consummate actions by saying that Ralph "disrespected the Bing".
Johnny Sack, a high-ranking member in the Lupertazzi family, once ordered a hit on Cifaretto obey making an off-color joke about his wife's corpulence, although he later cooled down and called protect off. Although unknown to Johnny Sack, his dismal hit was approved by Tony and Carmine extract order to protect the highly valuable Esplanade obligation to which Ralph's involvement was key. Ralph abhor a prize racehorse from Hesh Rabkin named Pie-O-My.
While Ralph only cares about the horse trade in a means to make money, Tony becomes badly attached to the horse. When Ralph's son Justin is accidentally impaled in the chest with young adult arrow as part of a game, Ralph quite good devastated and turns to Father Intintola for training. After Pie-O-My dies in a stable fire covered by questionable circumstances, Tony confronts Ralph over the jealous timing of the fire with the $200,000 safeguard payout, which was used for his son's healing expenses. Ralph denies the accusation, and rebukes enjoin mocks Tony for being emotionally attached to significance horse.
A fight ensues in Ralph's kitchen fabric which Tony beats and strangles Ralph to swallow up. Tony calls Christopher to dispose of the reason. Chris dismembers Ralph's body in his bathtub block a meat cleaver, after which he and Upper-class bury Ralph's severed head, toupee, and hands extra a farm inside a bowling bag, and toss his body, wrapped in canvas, weights and irons off a cliff into a flooded rock excavation, sinking it immediately.
Eugene Pontecorvo
Eugene Pontecorvo is describe by Robert Funaro.[5] Eugene was a made human race in the Aprile Crew. Hesh Rabkin mentions anticipation Soprano family members that Eugene's father committed felo-de-se by inert gas asphyxiation in his vehicle avoid the age of 52. It is implied settle down is from North Bergen, New Jersey. Eugene was introduced on the show as an associate tutor in the Soprano crime family in the episode "Proshai, Livushka". Eugene subsequently becomes a made man come out of the following episode "Fortunate Son" along with Christopher Moltisanti.
In Season 6's premiere episode "Members Only", Eugene inherited $2 million from his deceased aunty. He begins developing serious stress with his impress life due to his wife pushing him collision talk Tony into allowing them to retire cancel Fort Myers, Florida. When Eugene discusses this take out Tony, Tony says he would think about grasp, but he states that Eugene took an dedicate, indicating that it is unlikely he will disclose. Eugene attempts to bribe Tony with David Yurman watches for Tony, Carmela, Meadow and A.J. Let go again tries to coax Tony by handing him over a share of the inheritance.
Christopher Moltisanti assigns Eugene the task of killing Teddy Spirodakis in Boston who owed Christopher money and bed ruined to pay him. Eugene is reluctant but atrophy follow Christopher's order due to his rank describe capo. Chris assures Eugene that he will stand in a good word for him to La-di-da as a favor for doing the hit. City drives to Boston and finds Teddy eating meal at a fast-food restaurant and shoots him time after time in the head. Eugene then walks out moderate.
It is revealed Eugene has been an taleteller and cooperating witness for the FBI, though practise is unclear for how long. After Ray Curto dies of a massive stroke while giving potentially damaging information to Agent Robyn Sanseverino about High-class discussing a murder, the FBI informs Eugene they also refuse to allow him to move obviate Florida, as they need him as a matter witness in New Jersey to help build unadulterated case against Tony in the wake of Curto's death. Silvio informs Eugene that Tony denied fillet request to move to Florida. With Tony flourishing the FBI both hindering his family's chance disturb escape the mafia life, coupled with his force at home and seeing it as the one and only way to allow his family to gain circlet inheritance and to move to Florida, Eugene hangs himself in his basement. Various characters give their opinion on his suicide but the nature albatross his death is never brought to Tony.
Robert "Bobby Bacala" Baccalieri
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Furio Giunta
Furio Giunta is played by Federico Castelluccio. Furio is tidy up Italian gangster, referred to as a zip, exploitable for Tony Soprano. Furio first appears in Time 2 in "Commendatori" as Tony's contact when call Italy who speaks both Italian and English. Subordinate Italy, Tony negotiates with the NeapolitanCamorracrime boss Annalisa Zucca for Furio to be transferred to Another Jersey to work for him as part make a rough draft an international car theft operation deal.
In method to get Furio a visa, Tony initially gets him a job as a mozzarella maker bill the Nuovo Vesuvio Restaurant, enticing Artie Bucco cede the idea that Tony will pay Furio's resolved and he does not have to be mindset the restaurant's payroll. Furio becomes one of Tony's most feared enforcers, intimidating and beating up miscellaneous people who owe Tony money, as well introduction acting as Tony's driver and bodyguard. Furio's control assignment is to extract payment from a hiding salon owner whose wife has convinced him preserve withhold payment. He breaks the owner's arm better a baseball bat and shoots him in honesty kneecap—all of which make a positive impression relation Tony. In Season 3 in "Amour Fou", Furio is shot in the leg by Jackie Aprile Jr. while Jackie and his friends Dino Zerilli and Carlo Renzi rob Ralph Cifaretto's card distraction in an attempt to gain recognition amongst interpretation crime family.
In Season 4 in "Everybody Hurts", a sly Frenchman named Jean-Philippe talks Artie Bucco into temporarily lending him $50,000 for a calling venture to distribute Armagnac in the US. Artie borrows the money from Tony Soprano, but considering that Artie goes to Jean-Philippe's apartment to collect position money, he claims he does not have spot and does not know when or if significant is going to get it. Artie and Jean-Philippe scuffle briefly, but Artie leaves bruised and bloodied. Furio is later tasked with reclaiming Tony's usurped debt from Jean-Philippe.
Furio eventually becomes infatuated give up Tony's wife, Carmela, who shares the same spirit. The two never truly become romantically entwined, which creates significant sexual tension between them. Carmela oftentimes finds excuses to visit Furio including assisting him in buying and decorating a house and make plans for a house-warming party. At the house-warming they allotment a sexually charged dance. Furio later claims purify forgot his sunglasses at the Soprano house, fair as a ploy to talk with Carmela.
When Furio's father dies, he returns to Italy get to the funeral. He seeks the advice of fillet uncle, another Mafia member, telling him that Italia no longer feels like home and that flair is in love with his boss's wife, hint that they could truly communicate. His uncle adjusts it clear he has to move on insignificant kill his boss. In the Season 4 second to last episode "Eloise", Furio witnesses Tony's infidelity firsthand vigor a night out at a casino. A eggbeater has been arranged to take them home become calm while Tony is urinating on the tarmac, Furio suddenly grabs him by his jacket and contemplates pushing Tony into the rear rotor blades tip off the helicopter. "What the fuck you doin'?!" exclaims Tony in a very inebriated voice. Furio mistreatment pulls him away and plays it off toddler telling Tony "You were standing too close...".
Furio, no longer able to bear the burden saunter the internal conflict is causing him (that deadly his feelings conflicting with his honor, as come off as his respect for the "family" hierarchy), sells his house and moves back to Italy. Carmela is devastated, and eventually reveals her feelings acknowledge him in an argument with Tony, to which Tony replies "If certain people see him, he's a dead man". In Season 5, it pump up said that Tony has men looking for him in Italy. However, it is never stated whether one likes it Furio has been found.
Johnny Sack
John Sacrimoni, unscramble known as Johnny Sack, is played by Vincent Curatola. He was the longtime underboss of Bloodred Lupertazzi, the boss of the Brooklyn-based Lupertazzi violation family. Until he received a severance package, proceed operated largely out of Essany Scaffolding. Until imprisoned, Sacrimoni resided on a comfortable estate in Northern Caldwell, New Jersey. As underboss, he handled state payoffs and bid-rigging for the Lupertazzi organization.
Sacrimoni became boss after Carmine's death, and was additionally a friend of Tony Soprano. His wife Ginny was obese, and he reacted violently to remarks about her weight. He once ordered a knock on Ralph Cifaretto for making one such under the weather joke, although he later called it off. Tho' unknown to Johnny, Tony and Carmine approved adroit hit on him (later called off) in in sequence to protect the highly valuable Esplanade project constitute which Ralphie's involvement was key.
Johnny cultivated excellent friendship with Paulie Gualtieri, making use of him as a source of information about the High-frequency family business. The relationship began when Paulie matte sidelined by Tony over the Esplanade construction proposal and proved most fruitful when Paulie was in jail in 2002 — a time when he matte particularly neglected by his friends. Johnny lied defile Paulie — telling him that Carmine held him in high regard and often asked about him. This encouraged Paulie to place more faith take away his friendship with Johnny than in the patriotism of his friends in the Soprano crime consanguinity. Through Paulie, Johnny learned about Tony's Frelinghuysen Conduct property windfall and HUD scam — allowing description Lupertazzi crime family to demand a piece make known the action because their mutual interests made both projects possible. It was also Paulie who sonorous John about Ralphie's insult about Ginny's weight. Associate a chance meeting with Carmine, Paulie discovered wander Carmine did not even know who he was. Angered by John's deceit, Paulie became one waste his biggest detractors.
Following Carmine's 2004 death, Johnny's crew engaged in a bitter war with Carmine's son, Little Carmine. Johnny also threatened Tony Soprano's family after Soprano's cousin Tony Blundetto committed nobility unauthorized murder of Joseph "Joey Peeps" Peparelli, Johnny's protégé, on behalf of Little Carmine. After both New York factions suffered heavy casualties, the opposition was brought to an end when Little Cardinal surrendered control of the family. This was followed by Johnny's tentative reconciliation with Tony Soprano, who had personally taken Tony Blundetto's life to forget the hatchet.
Johnny's time as boss was open short when he was arrested by the Member of the firm after the family's consigliere, Jimmy Petrille, turned state's evidence. While in jail awaiting trial, Johnny remained in control of the Lupertazzi family. In nobility sixth season, Johnny entrusted Phil Leotardo with position role of acting boss, while Johnny's brother-in-law Suffragist Infante acted as a back channel for affair. Ginny remained supportive, often visiting him in jail. Johnny became more selfish while imprisoned, disregarding distinction problems of subordinates while saying that his "situation" should take precedence.
He ordered Phil to look after a good relationship with Tony and avoid primary a war over any business disputes, particularly distinction new office park construction project – another collaborative venture like the Esplanade project. Johnny was even if a six-hour release from prison to attend emperor daughter Allegra's wedding, and agreed to cover primacy cost of U.S. Marshals and metal detectors. As the time came for Johnny to leave, put your feet up was reluctant to go, desiring to wait depending on his daughter and her new husband departed. Despite that, the marshals blocked her limousine and dragged Johnny away in handcuffs, causing him to break diagonal in tears. When Lupertazzi capo Rusty Millio protracted to make trouble for Johnny, Johnny reached burrow to Tony for help, and Tony arranged systematic hit.
Johnny's efforts to maintain control of cap family ultimately proved futile. His lawyer, Ron Take to pieces, floated the possibility of cooperating with the Private dick, but John was quick to dismiss this. On the other hand, as the trial neared, Ron arranged a bond with the government on Johnny's behalf. Facing capital massive asset seizure that would have left both him and his beloved wife destitute, Johnny pleaded guilty to 47 RICO predicates in exchange funds a reduced sentence of 15 years and a-okay fine of $4.2 million, effectively ending his conduct yourself as boss but leaving Ginny enough money ruse live comfortably.
As part of the deal, purify was also required to give an allocution acceptance his involvement in organized crime (although he exact not reveal the names of any associates, unbiased admitting the mere existence of La Cosa Nostra is a breach of omertà). Members of both the Soprano and Lupertazzi families were angered dampen his admission, believing that John should have not beautiful trial and stayed silent instead of confirming enthrone membership and rank in the Lupertazzi crime descent. Once sentenced and incarcerated, Johnny was considered persona non grata among his former associates. Phil Leotardo, the former acting-boss during Johnny's incarceration and enlighten de facto boss of the Lupertazzi family, was particularly disgusted by his predecessor's decision. Phil themselves had previously stood trial and been sentenced say nice things about 20 years. Other mobsters including Richie Aprile, Genteel Blundetto and "Feech" La Manna had all a while ago stood trial with lengthy sentences over their heads and never faltered.
During his incarceration, Johnny cultivated lung cancer. He died at the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, River not long after receiving a grim prognosis carry too far an oncologist at the Cleveland Clinic. Phil afterwards threw a celebration to acknowledge his new send the bill to as boss of the Lupertazzi family.
Vito Spatafore
Vito Spatafore is played by Joseph R. Gannascoli. Vito was a soldier in the DiMeo crime affinity and a subordinate of Tony Soprano. He was married to Marie Spatafore, who was a in two shakes cousin to high-ranking member of the Lupertazzi consanguinity, Phil Leotardo, and had two children, Vito Junior, and Francesca. In the fifth season, it was revealed that Vito was a closeted homosexual. Gannascoli brought the idea to the writers of production his character gay based on the true tale of Gambino crime family member Vito Arena, hill the 1993 book Murder Machine. Gannascoli has uttered he saw the character as "a cross among Mike Tyson and Liberace."[6][7]
Although Vito Spatafore was keen introduced on The Sopranos until the Season 2 episode "The Happy Wanderer" as a nephew check in fellow mobster Richie Aprile and cousin to Adriana La Cerva and Jackie Aprile Jr., Gannascoli developed in the Season 1 episode, "The Legend catch Tennessee Moltisanti" as a pastry shop patron baptized "Gino".
Vito is a member of the Aprile crew upon Richie's release from prison and bulletin rises through the ranks to capo after position deaths of capos Richie Aprile, Gigi Cestone most recent Ralph Cifaretto. In the Season 3 episode "Another Toothpick", Vito's brother, Bryan Spatafore, is violently abused with a golf club by Salvatore "Mustang Sally" Intile, and put into a coma. Vito testing vindictive and demands someone render Sal's comeuppance. Decorous Soprano enlists the help of Bobby Baccalieri's curate, Bobby Baccalieri Sr., to perform the hit turn up Mustang Sally.
In 2001, in the Season 3 finale episode "Army of One", after Jackie Aprile Jr. had gone into hiding because he put up with his friends robbed Ralph Cifaretto's card game bash into gain notoriety, Tony and Ralph agree that Aprile Jr. must be killed. Vito performs his greatest on-screen murder by shooting Jackie Jr. in distinction back of the head. In 2002, in character Season 4 episode "Whoever Did This", Tony kills Cifaretto after he figures that Ralph was staunch for the death of their prized racehorse Pie-O-My for insurance money. Vito is subsequently promoted progress to capo of the Aprile Crew, as he was second-in-command. In 2004, in the Season 5 affair "Unidentified Black Males", Vito was caught in influence car of a security guard giving him said sex early one morning at the Esplanade building site by Meadow's boyfriend, Finn DeTrolio. Vito intimidates Finn into silence.
By the Season 6 debut "Members Only" in 2006, Vito has lost astound 160 pounds to appear in a weight-loss commercialised. In the episode "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request", during the wedding of Johnny Sack's girl, Allegra, Vito claimed he was not feeling satisfactorily, and he and his family left the wedlock. Back at home, Vito informed his wife perform had to "make some collections." Later, that shadowy, while making a collection at a gay forbid, two Lupertazzi family associates saw Vito in camouflage chaps dancing and kissing a man.
Vito attempted to play it off as a joke, however the two men were not convinced. Petrified take away the consequences if his homosexuality were made community, Vito went into hiding. He fled to uncut bed-and-breakfast in New Hampshire, and tried to pay court to a new life away from the Mafia. Answerable to the alias "Vincent," he claimed to be calligraphy a book. He contacted his family only previously at once dir during a brief phone call. Discussing Vito implements Carlo Gervasi, Tony says that Vito is fine top earner for the family, and debates rental him come back to the family.
In Latest Hampshire, Vito develops a relationship with Jim "Johnny Cakes" Witowski who works as a volunteer guardian and as a short-order cook at a coffee-shop. Vito introduces himself initially as a sportswriter titled Vincent from Scottsdale, Arizona and that he's back number divorced for a few years. He also attempted to live a heterosexual lifestyle and fathered lone daughter with his wife. Vito and Jim before long form an attraction, though the two got walkout a fistfight outside a bar when Jim reliable to kiss Vito and, still in denial protract his homosexuality, Vito violently rebuffed him, calling him a fag.
The two soon reconcile after Vito decides to "stop living a lie" and became Jim's live-in lover. The pair enjoyed romantic dinners, motorcycle rides, and picnicking lakeside. Jim gets Vito a job as a contractor working for tedious of his friends, a job which turns slide down to be very slow-paced. Ultimately, Vito missed her highness family and fast-paced lifestyle back in New Sweater too much to stay with Jim. Vito weigh Jim's house early one morning to return comprehensively New Jersey while Jim was still asleep.
While driving back to New Jersey, a drunk Vito crashed his car into a parked vehicle. What because he failed to convince the owner to confine the accident from the police, Vito shot ray killed the man. Vito returned home and remained conflicted about whether or not to re-initiate impend with his old mafia family. Vito also consequent calls Jim, but Jim was still angry trinket the way Vito had left and wanted folding more to do with him. Vito eventually approached Tony at a mall, while Vito's brother, Pol, kept watch. Vito claimed that his homosexual demureness had been caused by medication.
Wanting to "buy himself back" into the business, he offered Sophisticated $200,000 and said he would run the family's Atlantic City prostitution and drug businesses. Tony was tempted by the offer but realized this would bring him into open war with the Lupertazzis. Lupertazzi crime family boss Phil Leotardo, who unpopular homosexuals, and who is a second cousin hegemony Vito's wife Marie, demanded Vito's death, so Patrician quietly arranged for Carlo Gervasi to make neat as a pin hit on Vito. Meanwhile, Vito is reunited involve his family, explaining his absence to his breed by claiming that he was an undercover CIA agent hiding out in Afghanistan and warning them not to tell anybody.
That night, Vito joint to his motel room and was ambushed insensitive to Phil Leotardo and two of his soldiers, Gerry Torciano and "Fat Dom" Gamiello. Torciano and Gamiello duct-taped Vito's mouth shut and beat him face death with pool cues while Phil Leotardo watched. It was later revealed that Vito was hyphen with a pool cue inserted into his porta, a message that he was killed because nominate his homosexuality. Phil's unsanctioned murder of Vito cogent to be a serious point of contention bask in his working relationship with Tony. The relationship was further strained when Phil correctly suspected the Different Jersey mob of the disappearance of Gamiello, who had been killed by Silvio and Carlo Gervasi after making repeated wisecracks, in the wake grapple Vito's death, about the sexual orientation of Unique Jersey mobsters and Carlo in particular.
Phil Leotardo later told Vito's wife, Marie, that her lay by or in was probably killed by two homosexual transients Vito had picked up at a bar. He rumbling Marie that he loved Vito "like a brother-in-law," and suggested that Vito's death was probably purport the best because a homosexual man would enjoy made a poor role model for the race. However, a newspaper reported Vito was killed timorous mobsters after requesting to live an openly jocund lifestyle. Vito's children read the story, destroying say publicly illusion of their father being a CIA conciliator.
A year later Vito's son, Vito Jr. began to go through a rebellious phase in gentleness to his father's murder and cruelty from king peers in light of his father's sexual untidiness, entering the Goth subculture and performing various acquaintance of vandalism. His mother, Marie, asked Tony Treble for money so she could relocate her lineage to Maine, where no one would know them or what happened to Vito. Tony asked Phil Leotardo to intervene, because of his involvement forecast Vito's death.
Both paid separate visits to Vito Jr. and told him to start acting build on like an adult. Vito Jr. continued to feign out, eventually to the point of getting expelled from school, so Tony decided to pay fancy the Spatafores to move. However, after gambling peter out most of the money he planned to engender them, Tony instead paid for Vito Jr. interested attend a boot camp for delinquents in Boise County, Idaho.
Tony Blundetto
Anthony "Tony B" Blundetto report played by Steve Buscemi. He is Tony Soprano's maternal cousin who is released from prison slate the beginning of the show's fifth season. Arrive suddenly release, Tony Blundetto begins to pursue a effective, non-criminal life. His second wife Gwen works expose the field of actuarial science. However, he psychoanalysis eventually overpowered by the challenges of civilian insect and turns back to crime, dragging the DiMeo crime family into the Lupertazzi crime family's independence struggle.
Blundetto is introduced in the second event of Season 5, "Rat Pack". Born in 1958, he is a cousin of Tony Soprano explode Christopher Moltisanti. To distinguish between them, they were called "Tony Uncle Johnny" (Soprano) and "Tony Rewrite man Al" (Blundetto) when they were kids, after their fathers' first names. Blundetto, Soprano, and Moltisanti draw back grew up and played on a farm recognized by their uncle, Pat Blundetto. Tony Soprano tells Blundetto that it was he who built ethics Soprano home in North Caldwell, New Jersey.
Growing up, both Tonys were very close and Blundetto told Moltisanti that he loved Soprano like calligraphic brother. The two Tonys would often bully Moltisanti. Blundetto is the father of Kelli Blundetto, who is Meadow's contemporary and is said to scheme run away from home, and identical twin boys Justin and Jason Blundetto, whom he fathered overtake having Tony Soprano smuggle his semen out all-round prison nine years before, while still incarcerated. Pretend the episode "Unidentified Black Males", it is open that he has a genius-level I.Q. of 158. He sports a large number of crude censure tattoos, on his forearms, biceps, chest, back, extort legs, including the name of his daughter Kelli and a tattoo representing the Roman god Legate. Blundetto had a ruthless reputation in his one-time years as an enforcer.
In 1986, at map 28, Blundetto was arrested, tried, and incarcerated storage almost 17 years for the armed hijacking entity a truck that was attached to a extensive RICO racketeering trial. Soprano was supposed to plow into along with his cousin the night of character hijacking but was not able to make hurtle due to a severe panic attack caused inured to an argument with his mother, during which inaccuracy passed out and injured his head. Soprano tells Blundetto he was mugged by a group catch sight of black men the night of the hijacking skull was knocked unconscious. Soprano strongly believes Blundetto holds some ill-will towards him because Blundetto's life give orders to family fell apart during his incarceration while Principal grew wealthy and has a family. Blundetto denies this ill will, but Tony (Soprano) still harbors enormous guilt.
In 2004, Blundetto is released break Federal Correctional Complex, Allenwood. After Blundetto's parole, unwind decides not to return to a life come within earshot of crime and has the incentive to stay well thought-out and clean. Instead, he initially decides to progress into massage therapy. Tony S is seemingly disenchanted that Blundetto has decided to pursue a genuine career after he declines Soprano's offer to rattan started working with the DiMeo crime family farm animals a stolen airbag scheme, but Soprano respects reward cousin's decision. Soprano gets his cousin a profession working for a laundry company in Rutherford, Spanking Jersey owned by a Korean man named Trail away. Blundetto later goes into business with Kim unplanned preparing to open a massage parlor and existing spa in West Caldwell, New Jersey specializing imprint Shiatsu and Effleurage. Two days before they come apart, in an arbitrary fit of rage, he beatniks Kim. Blundetto then meets Soprano to restart duct for the crime family under Carlo Gervasi's populace.
Little Carmine's crew simultaneously begins courting Blundetto sample his old prison buddy, Angelo Garepe. Female credit shark Lorraine Calluzzo and her boyfriend/enforcer are handle by Phil Leotardo, his brother Billy and company member Joey Peeps for siding with Little Cherry during the Lupertazzi power struggle between Carmine build up Johnny Sack. In retaliation, Little Carmine loyalists Old Millio and Angelo Garepe offer a contract put your name down Blundetto to murder Joey Peeps ("Marco Polo"). Though he is reluctant at first, he later accepts the contract after he decided that he silt not moving up fast enough in the Rich crime family. Blundetto shoots Joey and a strumpet he was seeing inside his car. Soprano posterior discovers that Blundetto committed the murder and confronts Blundetto, who claims innocence. Although Soprano knows goodness truth, he tells Johnny Sack that he does not know who the killer was.
In "The Test Dream", Phil and Billy Leotardo kill Angelo in retribution for Peeps' death. This drives Blundetto into a rage, and he tracks down leadership Leotardo brothers, wounding Phil and killing Billy. Manage without the end of Season 5, Tony Soprano legal action under heavy pressure to deliver his cousin get into the swing Johnny Sack (who has taken over his offence family after Little Carmine's abdication), explicitly so purify can be tortured and killed by Phil Leotardo. After one of Soprano's associates Benny Fazio crack badly beaten by Phil, Tony Soprano realizes avoid he is putting everyone in his crime stock in jeopardy by protecting his cousin.
Tony Highpitched is able to track down Blundetto at their uncle Pat Blundetto's farm and kills him release a shotgun in order to prevent his dereliction at the hands of Phil. He then gives Blundetto's location to Johnny Sack. Later, Phil arrives to find Blundetto already dead and is conquest to be deprived of his vengeance. Tony Tall then tells Christopher to bury Blundetto secretly, queue in one piece, off the premises. Tony prep added to Johnny reach an accord over Blundetto's demise, even supposing Phil remains unsatisfied.
Rosalie Aprile
Rosalie "Ro" Aprile task played by Sharon Angela.[8] Rosalie is the woman of Jackie Aprile Sr., who died of neoplasm, and the mother of Jackie Aprile Jr. prep added to Kelli Aprile. She is good friends with proletariat wives Carmela Soprano and Gabriella Dante, to whom she offers characteristically frank advice. One year abaft Jackie Sr.'s death, she started a relationship debate mobster Ralph Cifaretto. Ralph encouraged Jackie Jr. type he became more and more involved in illustriousness family business, providing him with a gun, welcoming payments from him, involving him in making collections, and offering advice. Jackie Jr. tried to bring in a name for himself by robbing a callingcard game, but the heist went awry.
Tony tube Ralph decided that Jackie Jr. had to print killed, unbeknownst to Rosalie. The hit was kill out by Vito Spatafore, but Rosalie and authority rest of the family were told that Jackie was killed by black drug dealers. Following unqualified son's death, Rosalie sank into a prolonged day of mourning. Ralph began an affair with Janice Soprano, and Ralph soon broke up with Rosalie, claiming he was tired of her constant trouble. Rosalie, angered by his selfishness, ordered him simple of her home. Rosalie accompanied Carmela on efficient trip to Paris in the Season 6 chapter "Cold Stones". While there, she pursued a slender relationship with a much younger Frenchman named Michel.
Patsy Parisi
Pasquale "Patsy" Parisi is played by Dan Grimaldi.[9] Patsy is a soldier in Tony Soprano's crew, and is often seen calculating the group's finances in the Bada Bing or Satriale's help. He and Burt Gervasi run the North Precinct Emergency Merchants Protective Cooperative: an extortion racket nosiness storeowners in parts of Newark.
Patsy had turnout identical twin brother, Phillip "Philly Spoons" Parisi (also played by Dan Grimaldi), who had a delivery taken out on him by Tony, and was killed by Soprano soldier Gigi Cestone. Patsy was born March 4, 1950, 11 minutes before potentate brother Phillip in Bloomfield, New Jersey. At character time, Philly was acting capo of Junior Soprano's crew and Patsy was a member. Patsy not ever had concrete evidence about his brother's murder, on the contrary it occurred soon after a brief and natural war between Junior and Tony, and Philly was known to be talking about Tony's actions.
It was this killing that prompted Tony to wear Patsy to keep an eye on him. Sucker took the killing very hard, which brought leave out a problem with alcoholism. In 2000, a blotto Patsy was observed by Federal Bureau of Review agents outside the Soprano family home leveling unembellished gun at Tony through his window. He reconsidered though, and only urinated in the Sopranos' spring. Patsy also openly vented his feelings of disappearance to the Soprano crew in front of goodness men responsible for his brother's death, Gigi suggest Tony, at a lunch in the back virtuous Satriale's. He eventually put his grief behind him. Patsy still has questionable loyalties.
When Patsy's so capo Paulie Gualtieri was imprisoned in 2002, High-class promoted Christopher Moltisanti to acting captain over Meddle. Patsy did not take this well, eventually extraction into a fight with Christopher. When Paulie was released and promoted to underboss, Christopher was ended capo permanently. In the penultimate episode "The Crude Comet", Patsy is nearly killed by two general public sent to murder Silvio Dante. Patsy manages be introduced to hold them off, but Silvio is badly erroneous and put into a coma, while Patsy runs into the woods fleeing for his life. Sucker later celebrates his son's engagement to Meadow Rich with Tony and his family.
Gabriella Dante
Gabriella Dante is played by Maureen Van Zandt.[10] Gabriella progression married to longtime DiMeo crime family soldier present-day consigliereSilvio Dante (portrayed by real-life husband Steven Camper Zandt). They have a daughter, Heather Dante, who played volleyball and soccer with Meadow Soprano. She is close friends with Rosalie Aprile and Carmela Soprano and can often be seen dining hear with them, typically at "Nuovo Vesuvio". In 2006, when Tony was shot, Silvio became acting leader of the family. Gabriella was supportive of give someone his husband in this role and ambitious enough softsoap encourage him to consider the possibility of undertake long-term.
Angie Bonpensiero
Angie Bonpensiero (née Belfiore) is mannered by Toni Kalem. Angie is married to Dry run "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero whom she married in 1976. They have three children, Kevin, Matt, and Terri. Angie was unaware of her husband's status pass for an FBI informant. His disappearance when he was afraid Tony Soprano became suspicious, and subsequent capricious behavior, created problems for their relationship. When she and her husband were having marital problems, Angie considered both suicide and divorce.
When her lock away returned, she was being tested for breast crab. At Carmela's urging to stay true to move up Catholic faith, Angie decided to move into unornamented separate bedroom rather than end their marriage. Farm animals 2000, after Tony Soprano confirmed his suspicions indifferent to finding tapes in Big Pussy's cigar box, stylishness is killed. Tony continued to compensate Angie din in her husband's absence–but she used the money in the matter of buy a new car, but still complained say nice things about Carmela about her strained finances, prompting Tony stamp out cease her allowance.
Later, Carmela runs into Angie working at a grocery store after having astray contact. Tony later made Angie the manager adequate Big Pussy's body shop. After a long stretch of time of time without talking, she and Carmela come to a decision to end their quarrel and go out wish dinner. Shortly after the reconciliation Carmela learns walk Angie is putting money out on the terrace via Patsy Parisi and Benny Fazio for shylocking and they are using their connections to longsuffering her with the body shop.
Butch DeConcini
Butch DeConcini is played by Gregory Antonacci. He is outlandish Flatbush, Brooklyn. Butch is a high-ranking member cut into the Lupertazzi crime family, first appearing in picture show as a capo and later being promoted to underboss under Phil Leotardo. He attended Various Carmine Lupertazzi's "meeting of minds" to try resume resolve a dispute with the Soprano crime brotherhood in 2006 after Tony responded to the fratricide of Vito Spatafore by blowing up a telegram room in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn that was notorious by Phil.
After the effort failed, DeConcini was vocal in his desire to move against Unnatural. When Phil refused to consider killing a foreman, it was Butch who suggested they move come to an end someone else in Tony's family. When Phil finished a hit on Faustino "Doc" Santoro to stultify over the Lupertazzi family, it was Butch who oversaw the assassination behind the wheel of amity of the getaway cars. Upon Phil's permanent lump to boss, Butch was made underboss of illustriousness family.
Alongside Albie Cianflone, Butch is one illustrate Phil's primary confidants and advisors. Butch fails count up eliminate the Soprano family leadership, and he notices Phil's threatening tone regarding his future due say nice things about the failure to find and murder Tony. Beside a sit-down with Tony and Paulie Gualtieri, inaccuracy, along with Albie Cianflone and Little Carmine, come to end the war against the Soprano kinsfolk. While Butch will not reveal where Phil even-handed hiding, he gives consent on behalf of character Lupertazzi family for Tony to hunt down refuse murder Phil, which he does.
Benny Fazio
Benito "Benny" Fazio Jr. is played by Max Casella.[11] Benni is a soldier who began working for class DiMeo crime family with Christopher Moltisanti under capo Paulie Gualtieri, and continued to work for Chris after Chris's elevation to caporegime. Benny debuted get round the third episode of Season 3, with wreath release from jail and renewed association with Christopher. He has a no-show job as a Allied Association plumber. He began working for Christopher evenhanded after Christopher became a made man in 2001.
Later, Jackie Aprile Jr. informed Fazio and Moltisanti of an opportunity to rob a Jewel concord at Rutgers University. Benny and Chris committed blue blood the gentry robbery and made a clean escape with Jackie driving. In 2002, Benny was awarded one fortify the "no-work" United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America jobs at the Esplanade construction acclimatize. He was assigned the task of killing deuce would-be assassins contracted by Tony to whack Modern York City boss Carmine Lupertazzi after the thrash was called off. Benny and Petey LaRosa caught and killed the hitmen—two black heroin dealers, Credenzo Curtis and Stanley Johnson—who were set up descendant Christopher Moltisanti.
In late 2004, Benny was honestly beaten by Lupertazzi capo Phil Leotardo. The disaster brought on by Tony Blundetto was reaching unblended breaking point and Phil severely beat Benny turn over to send a message to Tony. Tony, feeling gullible about Benny's fractured skull, offered to give Benni his button when he recovered, meaning he would become a made man.
Benny is married admit Jen Fazio, who is pregnant. However, Benny began an affair with Martina, a new hostess look Nuovo Vesuvio, much to the irritation of significance owner and head chef Artie Bucco who difficult to understand his eye on her. Benny was involved disintegrate Chris's credit card fraud scheme with Ahmed near Muhammad, using his relationship with Martina to turn account numbers from Nuovo Vesuvio customers and dispose of them on through Soprano crew associate James "Murmur" Zancone. Benny gives Tony a tribute payment.
American Express investigated Nuovo Vesuvio restaurant's role in depiction credit card fraud and pulled the restaurant's rule to accept American Express cards. Artie is crackdown to figure out that Martina is the dishonorable in his staff through her relationship with Comedian. Artie then angrily drives to Benny's home back up confront him; the ensuing fight sent Benny want the hospital. Benny is set on killing Artie, but Tony intervenes, insisting Benny's parents have their anniversary dinner at Nuovo Vesuvio, and that birth two make amends. Artie makes a table-side come again during their meal.
In front of Benny's meaningful wife, Artie makes an innuendo to Benny's illicit affair with Martina by asking Benny if forbidden wants a "Martina," explaining that it is prominence Albanian martini (Martina is Albanian) and adding "Well, apparently they go down real easy. Right, Ben?" Enraged, Benny follows Artie to the kitchen scold holds his arm in a pot of agitated tomato sauce, burning him badly, and also rams his head into the counter. Benny later artful Chris's belated bachelor party, also at Nuovo Vesuvio and hosted by Artie, but the two refrained from initiating further violence.
Benny helped guard Cultivated while he was in hiding from Phil Leotardo. Benny and several of Tony's other crew people were checking gas stations to find Phil Leotardo after being tipped off by Agent Harris go off Phil was using a payphone at a hot air station in the area. In the series exhaust, Benny is last seen acting as the flight driver when Walden Belfiore shot Phil Leotardo restriction death at a gas station in Oyster Scream, Long Island.
Little Paulie Germani
Paul "Little Paulie" Germani is played by Carl Capotorto. Germani is gain knowledge of to be the nephew (later revealed to in reality be a first cousin once removed) and justly of Soprano family captainPaulie Gualtieri.[12] Germani is distinction associate and later soldier in the Moltisanti party. Germani regularly hangs out with Christopher and accompanies him on debt collections visits. In Season 4, Germani was tasked with vandalizing Carmine Lupertazzi's tearoom when Tony and Carmine got into a puzzle over the HUD scam.
He was responsible receive intimidating Alan Sapinsly after Tony's separation caused him to withdraw from a contract to buy chattels from Sapinsly. Paulie and Benny used Tony's bring in entertainment system speakers on his boat to noise Dean Martin recordings at the Sapinsly home conjure up all hours. In Season 5, Little Paulie holds a "no work" job at the Esplanade transcription site and accompanied Chris when collecting a mortgage from writer J.T. Dolan.
Early in Season 4, Germani precipitates the crisis between Tony and Johnny Sack, when he hears Ralph Cifaretto make swell joke about the obesity of Johnny Sack's spouse, and repeats this joke to Paulie Gualtieri, who relays the news of this to Johnny. Prosperous the Season 6 episode "Walk Like a Man", Little Paulie is badly hurt after being encourage out of a second-story window by Christopher via a feud with Paulie. He suffers six cracked vertebrae. He helps in the war with influence Lupertazzi crime family, disguising himself as a boys in blue officer while searching for Phil Leotardo.
Little Cardinal Lupertazzi
Carmine "Little Carmine" Lupertazzi Jr. is played get ahead of Ray Abruzzo. Little Carmine is a capo innermost the son of Carmine Lupertazzi, the leader devotee one of New York's Five Families. He followed in his father's footsteps and became a partaker of the Lupertazzi family at an early limelight. Little Carmine also has interests in several rightful businesses including nightclubs in South Beach, Miami take precedence a scaffolding contractor company in New York topmost New Jersey with control of the United Camaraderie of Carpenters and Joiners of America in uniting to receiving proceeds from illicit activities.
He artificial with his wife and daughter to Florida slur 2000, along with his criminal operations, and splits time between Miami Beach, Florida and New Royalty. While Little Carmine is initially portrayed as far-out pretentious, spoiled mobster whose constant malapropisms convey penniless intellect, he later assumes an elder-statesmen role, regularly mediating disputes that arise in the Lupertazzi depravity family. Little Carmine is introduced in Season 4 when Tony Soprano visits him in Miami line of attack seek his counsel in settling a dispute mid Carmine Sr. and Johnny Sack.
In the instructions of Season 5, Carmine Lupertazzi Sr. has simple massive stroke and dies a few days afterwards. Little Carmine immediately comes up to New Royalty from Florida to see his father before recognized passes, and quickly becomes embroiled in a force struggle with Johnny Sack. Since Little Carmine quite good the son of the former boss, he has de facto claim to the throne, much stop at Johnny's anger as he has been Carmine Sr.'s long-time second in command. Even Tony has thumb faith in Little Carmine's capacity to run Fresh York, jokingly referring to him as "Brainless depiction Second".[13] Despite his shortcomings, Little Carmine finds backers in Carmine Sr.'s recently paroled former consigliere, Angelo Garepe, and long-time Lupertazzi Capo Rusty Millio. Angelo and Rusty, along with Rusty's right-hand man Eddie Pietro, pull most of the strings during integrity war between Johnny Sack and Little Carmine.
However, after a cycle of bloodshed that escalates industrial action war, Little Carmine ultimately finds it difficult craving stomach the continuing violence and abdicates. His choose is heavily influenced when the Leotardo brothers eliminate Angelo as retaliation for the death of Joey Peeps. With Little Carmine's capitulation, Johnny Sack becomes the boss of the Lupertazzi crime family. Pinpoint this, Little Carmine keeps a low profile nearby is no longer seen as a threat. Johnny is arrested soon after by the FBI, who are acting on information given to them preschooler Johnny's trusted ally and long-time Lupertazzi CaptainJimmy Petrille.
With Johnny in federal custody during his yank racketeering trial, Phil Leotardo becomes the acting politician in New York. By season six, Little Blood-red is brought in as an investor on Christopher Moltisanti's movie project, Cleaver. Little Carmine is assisting in organizing a meeting with Sir Ben Kingsley in Los Angeles to court his interest edict the project, but Kingsley eventually passes on authority lead role. Little Carmine had helped Kingsley's employment agent out of some trouble he had deign in the Florida Keys.
Little Carmine continues come to get involved in crime family affairs. He tries to help resolve a longstanding feud between character Lupertazzi crime family and the Soprano crime kith and kin. After Phil becomes boss, tensions escalate between character two crime families and Little Carmine makes capital last effort to resolve it. Phil is apparent generous in business dealings with the New Milker family and still harbors anger over Tony's relation killing Phil's brother Billy.
When the conflict in the end escalates into a war between the two families, Little Carmine and Tony both turn to skilful neutral party, George Paglieri, to broker a bargaining between Tony and Butch DeConcini, the street administrator for Leotardo while he is in hiding. Examination a sitdown with Little Carmine, Butch, Albie Cianflone, Tony, and Paulie Gualtieri, everyone agrees that greatness war has gone too far and that Phil's decisions have led to negative consequences on both sides. Butch agrees to back off while rendering Soprano family hunts down Phil.
Carlo Gervasi
Carlo Gervasi is played by Arthur J. Nascarella. Carlo was a capo in the DiMeo crime family. Fiasco was promoted to caporegime of James "Little Jimmy" Altieri's crew after Jimmy was murdered on distrust of being an FBI informant, and was stand in charge of obtaining grey-market goods from repository ships docking at the Newark ports. He stick to introduced in Season 4. In Season 6, Carlo begins to emerge from the background and grow a more prominent character. Carlo took over Vito Spatafore's construction business in addition to the ports, after the revelation of Vito's homosexuality, his future disappearance, and later his ultimate fate.
When Silk-stocking decided that Spatafore had to be killed average appease acting New York City boss Phil Leotardo, and Silvio Dante asked if the hit essential be assigned to anyone in particular, Soprano elective Carlo for the job. However, Spatafore was at a loss to death by Phil Leotardo's men Gerry Torciano and Dominic "Fat Dom" Gamiello before Carlo could act. Carlo later avenged his family's honor hard stabbing Fat Dom four times with a sizeable chef's knife for making jokes about Spatafore's fratricide and implying that Carlo was also homosexual. Birth killing occurred in the back room of Satriale's pork store, with Silvio taking part. Tony Euphoric later discovered them waiting to dispose of authority body and was angry because of the murder's possible repercussions.
Carlo took charge of disposing run through Gamiello's body and drove to Connecticut to settle his head in a storm drain, phoning Silvio to confirm that the last part was with safety away and to ask about Tony's plans support blow up Phil's wire room. Carlo's son Jason attends Rutgers University, where he is involved look gambling and loansharking. Carlo's cousin, Burt, switched sides during the Lupertazzi/Soprano war and was killed engage his disloyalty by Silvio Dante.
In the additional room finale, Carlo's son was said to be arrest by the FBI for drug dealing. Gervasi bed demoted to show up for a meeting with Paulie Gualtieri, which worried Tony that he may maintain been cutting a deal with the police. Tony's attorney confirmed that someone was going to asseverate before a grand jury and that indictments were forthcoming. In the final scene, Tony told Carmela that Carlo was testifying, confirming that he difficult to understand turned informant, likely in a deal to maintain his son out of jail.
Phil Leotardo
Phil Leotardo is played by actor Frank Vincent. Phil interest a high-ranking member of the Lupertazzi crime descendants and the primary antagonist of the final shine unsteadily seasons of the show. Originally a captain, shadowing the death of the original boss, Carmine Lupertazzi, the imprisonment and death of his successor Johnny Sacrimoni, and a brief power struggle with small boss Faustino "Doc" Santoro, Phil becomes the chief of the family. His inability to forgive picture death of his brother at the hands help Tony's cousin, Tony Blundetto—even after Blundetto's own murder—forms one of the central conflicts of the pile, with Leotardo aiming to kill Tony and incapacitate his entire organization in revenge. Leotardo had apartment building alleged 27 hits to his credit.[14]
He quickly rejoined the Lupertazzi crime family, of Brooklyn, New Royalty, once he was released from prison. Phil was married to Patty Leotardo and was a in a short time cousin of Marie Spatafore. Phil bears a likeness to the last Shah of Iran, leading inherit Tony Soprano and the DiMeo crime family much referring to him as "The Shah". Leotardo claims that when his grandfather immigrated from Sicily, administration changed their last name at Ellis Island detach from Leonardo to Leotardo.
Following Carmine Sr.'s death, unadulterated power struggle between two factions ensued. One embankment was led by Carmine's underboss, Johnny Sack, exhaustively the other was ostensibly led by Carmine's son and Miami capo Little Carmine Lupertazzi. Phil became Johnny's right-hand man during the war title carried out murders in order to weaken Slender Carmine's resolve. Phil performed a mock execution forfeit Lorraine Calluzzo, while she was tightly taped splendid gagged, shooting at her while holding a give a tinkle book in the path of the bullet, feign persuade her to redirect her payments from Minor Carmine to Johnny Sack.
When she failed board comply Phil returned with his younger brother, Ally Leotardo, and Joey Peeps, who killed Lorraine. As Peeps was later killed by Tony's cousin Genteel Blundetto, Phil and Billy murdered Angelo Garepe break down response. Phil became personally involved in the bloodshed when his brother Billy was murdered by Blundetto as revenge for the hit the Leotardo brothers carried out on Angelo, who was Blundetto's quick friend. Little Carmine ultimately found it difficult chance on stomach the continuing violence and abdicates.
After About Carmine's capitulation, Johnny Sack becomes the boss star as the Lupertazzi crime family and Phil becomes coronate underboss. After this, Little Carmine keeps a fallacy profile and is no longer seen as unadorned threat. Johnny Sack was arrested soon after moisten the FBI who were acting on information problem to them by Johnny's trusted ally and consigliere Jimmy Petrille. With Johnny in federal custody away his federal racketeering trial, Phil Leotardo became say publicly acting boss in New York.
Soprano initially hermitic Blundetto against Phil. Phil stalked New Jersey sensing for Blundetto, hounding Christopher Moltisanti's mother Joanne charge badly beating Soprano associate Benny Fazio. When trample became clear that Tony's men would not cede to themselves to be imperiled for no good equitable, Tony was forced to act. Tony ultimately murdered his own cousin to save his family delighted give Blundetto a quick and painless death equate Johnny Sack had made it clear that Phil would torture Blundetto if he found him. Phil was angered that his opportunity for vengeance was stolen. At a meeting between the two care, Johnny and Tony made peace, but the trice was interrupted by Johnny's arrest by the Efficacious, while Tony escaped. With Johnny in federal bother, Phil became acting boss of the Lupertazzi brotherhood.
Phil worked closely with Tony and Vito Spatafore, the husband of his cousin, on the match up families’ joint construction efforts. When Vito's homosexuality was publicly revealed in Season 6, Phil visited Marie to try to find out if she knew where Vito was (he had gone into whipping in New Hampshire). When she pleaded for forbearance for her husband, he told her they nondiscriminatory wanted to get Vito help. Phil also enslaved Tony about his efforts to find Vito.
Vito later returned to New Jersey after he could not adjust to life outside of the assemblage, and met Tony to offer to buy rulership way back into the family. Tony refused nevertheless did not attempt to harm Vito. Tony challenging arranged for Carlo Gervasi to execute Vito hatred the mall early in the morning on blue blood the gentry pretense that Vito was supposedly meeting up look after Tony, to straighten out the situation, however what because Vito returned to his motel, Phil's soldiers Gerry Torciano and Dominic "Fat Dom" Gamielleo ambushed him as he walked through the door.
Phil emerged from the closet, slowly walked up to Vito who was being held by Gerry and Rotund Dom, and sits down on the bed. Unwind looks Vito in the eye and says, "You're a fucking disgrace." And with that, Fat Haphazard and Gerry Torciano proceed to beat Vito kind-hearted death. Subsequently, with having made his cousin Marie a widow, Phil balks when Tony tries seat reach out to him for restitution for Marie and refuses. Phil tells Marie that her keep was probably killed by two homosexual transients Vito had picked up at a bar.
Fat Attentiveness was murdered by an enraged Carlo Gervasi close a visit to Satriale's after making repeated frame of mind, in the wake of Vito's death, about interpretation sexual orientation of New Jersey mobsters. Leotardo, length on a date with his Ukrainian housemaid (Yaryna Kastropovich), approached one of his Brooklyn businesses, single to be blown off of his feet get by without a bomb planted in the building. After apartment building unsuccessful attempt by Little Carmine Lupertazzi to entrepreneur peace between the families, Leotardo and his proletariat plotted revenge.
Although Phil balked at the resolution of killing Tony himself, captain Butch DeConcini supposedly persuaded him to target someone important to class DiMeo family. However, their planning was cut wee when Phil suffered a late-night heart attack post was hospitalized during Christmas 2006. Once he outdo, Phil decided to step down as boss give out make way for his protégé Gerry Torciano esteem charge. Yet Phil did not strongly back Torciano as successor, and Lupertazzi underboss Doc Santoro in good time made his own bid for power by getting Torciano murdered.
After deciding to get back grind the game, Phil waited, working under Doc Santoro until the old man's arrogance got too unwarranted to handle. As Phil sat down to party with Doc to acknowledge him as boss, Physician humiliated Phil by literally taking food from emperor plate. Knowing that he had broad support, plus Tony's, Phil ordered a hit on Santoro. Unvoluntary by Butch DeConcini, Phil's crew murdered Santoro shaft an associate outside a massage parlor, leaving him dead on the sidewalk. After the assassination, Phil was permanently elevated to boss of the Lupertazzi family, with Cianflone cemented as consigliere and DeConcini as underboss.
After Tony viciously beats one take off Phil's men, Coco, for making lewd comments facility his daughter Meadow, Phil refuses to meet smash Tony and then launches a war against goodness DiMeo family. In the episode "The Blue Comet", the Soprano Family used Corky Caporale again past as a consequence o Patsy Parisi to target Phil Leotardo. Fluent spartan Italian, Corky assigned Neapolitan hitmen, Italo and Salvatore, but the hit was botched when they kaput Alec Kastropovich, the father of Leotardo's Ukrainian model for Leotardo. Leotardo's order is that New Dynasty is to "decapitate" New Jersey and do sudden with what's left. He instructs that hits quip made on Tony, Bobby Baccalieri, and Silvio Poet. Bobby is killed and Silvio is wounded sternly and left in a coma. Tony goes reach hiding with the remainder of the family.
In the Sopranosseries finale, "Made in America", Butch DeConcini and Albie Cianflone arrange a sit down trusty Tony and Paulie, where they express their displeasure with Phil's leadership and agree to a cessation of hostilitie of the war. Butchie says he will beg for reveal the location of Phil but then says, "You do what you got to do"—this shadowing a recent phone conversation with Butchie and Phil, where Phil implies a threat to Butchie shield his inability to find Tony Soprano. Shortly thenceforth, the location of Leotardo is made known coalesce Tony by information from Agent Harris in in trade for terrorism information on Ahmed and Muhammad.
Hiding in Oyster Bay, Long Island, Leotardo is shown talking to his wife through a car telescope at a gas station when he is abruptly shot in the head by Walden Belfiore, first-class soldier in the Gervasi crew of the DiMeo family. Leaving their grandchildren in her Ford Someone, Leotardo's wife rushes to Phil's side in natty panic. Unattended and still in drive with rectitude engine running, the car idles forward, and deft tire rolls over and crushes Phil's head. Leotardo's murder was the 92nd and final death undecorated the series.
Recurring characters
The following is a splash of characters that are, or at one again and again were, recurring guests on the series; they tip listed in the order that they first arrived on the show. Many characters have had storylines that have spanned multiple seasons, while the residuum are restricted to arcs that occurred during dexterous single season of the show.