John Gotti

John Gotti is one of those figures where the mythology and the reality blur together so completely that it almost doesn't matter — and yet the reality is somehow more cinematic than anything Hollywood could dream up. The man ordered the murder of his own boss, Paul Castellano, right outside Sparks Steak House in midtown Manhattan in broad evening rush-hour chaos, then waltzed into leadership of the Gambino family like he'd been elected. The impeccably tailored suits, the media-savvy swagger, the "Teflon Don" nickname after beating three federal cases — it was genuinely impressive theater, even if the underlying business was brutal. He died in prison in 2002, which is where that road always ends, but you can't deny he was one of the most charismatic and consequential organized crime figures the United States ever produced.

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Name (English)

John Gotti

Name (Japanese)

ジョン・ゴッティ

Reading

じょん・ごってぃ

Born

October 27, 1940 – June 10, 2002

Origin

The Bronx, New York, United States

Height

178 cm

Occupation

gangster / extortionist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Dragon

High school

Franklin K. Lane High School

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Gotti
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B4%E3%83%83%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q301646

Tags

• New York
• gangster
• extortionist

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.