Before Francis Ford Coppola entered the picture, Paramount had its eye on a Western legend to adapt The Godfather for the big ...

Former Mafia member John Pennisi rates 10 Mafia scenes in movies and television for realism, such as "The Sopranos" and "The Godfather." Pennisi was a made member of the Lucchese crime family ...

The dawn raid in Palermo netted 80-year-old jeweller Settimo Mineo. He was reportedly elected Cosa Nostra godfather at a Mafia meeting in May. Italian media describe him as the successor to Toto ...

Police are treating the act as a mafia intimidation tactic ... describing it as deeply unsettling and similar to the 1972 film The Godfather, in which a character wakes up to find a decapitated ...