Vincent Gigante

Vincent Gigante is one of the strangest figures in American organized-crime history, and not just because he started out as a boxer. The 'Oddfather' act, shuffling around the Village in a bathrobe and muttering to himself for years to dodge prosecutors, was either genuinely unhinged or one of the longest cons the mob ever ran, and most people lean toward the con. As Genovese boss he kept an iron grip while playing crazy in plain sight. It's a chilling reminder of how cunning could hide behind apparent madness for decades before the law finally caught up.

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Vincent Gigante (March 29, 1928 - December 19, 2005) was an American who was born in Manhattan, New York, and began his career as a professional boxer. He is best remembered as the boss of the Genovese crime family, where he was nicknamed 'The Oddfather' and 'The Chin' for famously feigning mental illness, wandering Greenwich Village in a bathrobe, in an effort to evade prosecution. He was eventually convicted and died in federal prison in 2005.

Name (English)

Vincent Gigante

Name (Japanese)

ヴィンセント・ジガンテ

Reading

ゔぃんせんと・じがんて

Born

March 29, 1928 – December 19, 2005

Origin

Manhattan, New York, United States

Occupation

Boxer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Dragon

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent%20Gigante
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BB%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%82%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q939062

Tags

• From New York
• Boxer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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