Luigi Giuliano had multiple nicknames including "'o rre" and "Lovigino", which is an amalgamation of Luigi and love.
17 Facts About Luigi Giuliano
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Luigi Giuliano was born into the family of Pio Vittorio Luigi Giuliano, a well-known smuggler.
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The other four girls, Erminia Luigi Giuliano, who was called Celeste, Patrizia, Silvana and Anna.
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At the age of 14, Luigi Giuliano stole a car belonging to an American expatriate together with Giuseppe Misso, the future boss of the Misso clan.
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Luigi Giuliano's father found a briefcase containing hundreds of US dollars in the car.
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Pio Vittorio Luigi Giuliano was a powerful member of the Luigi Giuliano clan, which had traditionally controlled the Forcella, or "Casbah" area in the centre of Naples.
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Luigi Giuliano replaced his father as head of the clan in the mid-1970s.
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The Luigi Giuliano clan had been in good terms with the Nuova Camorra Organizzata, headed by Raffaele Cutolo until the first half of 1979, but the two clans then broke out into conflict.
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On Christmas Eve, Luigi Giuliano himself was wounded in an attack.
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Luigi Giuliano relinquished control of the Quartieri Spagnoli to the Di Biase brothers, Luigi and Mario who ruled the area under the approval of Giuliano.
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Luigi Giuliano later became a founding member of the Secondigliano Alliance, a consortium of Camorra clans formed in Naples towards the end of the 1980s.
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Luigi Giuliano held the reins of his clan undisturbed for nearly thirty years.
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Luigi Giuliano became the boss because the only direct male heir to the family business still unimprisoned, Giuliano's nephew Pio Vittorio Giuliano, was deemed inept.
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Luigi Giuliano wanted to testify against Giuliano's son-in-law and two associates accused of murdering her husband in 1999.
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In September 2002, Luigi Giuliano decided to collaborate with the Italian authorities and became a government witness.
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Luigi Giuliano cited his willingness to change his life as a reason for his collaboration with the authorities.
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Luigi Giuliano even made several statements against his former ally, Giuseppe Misso, and revealed specific details regarding the murder of the Vatican's banker Roberto Calvi, who was found hanging from scaffolding beneath Blackfriars Bridge in the financial district of London in 1982.