She was born Rosalie Profaci, the daughter of Salvatore Profaci, who was consiglieri to his brother, Joseph Profaci, the don of the powerful Profaci crime family durings its heyday between the 1930s and 1950s. He said he couldn`t be there ''because, as you all know, I`m still on vacation,'' drawing a laugh from the crowd. While his father ran one of the most powerful Mafia groups during the 1950s and 1960s, which became a model for The Sopranos, many expected Joe Jnr would take over the family business. But after a few minutes of monologue, he stopped short. In fact, he added, Ive often thought that Rosalie always had a special place in her heart for (Charles), was closer to him than the others, because he was adopted., Of his new daughter-in-laws non-Sicilian heritage, he said, Shes a Calabrese, meaning her family is from Calabria, which is way down in the boot of Italy just three miles across the strait from Sicily. He added with a laugh, So thats almost as good.. The networks also passed. Joseph Bonanno,'' the crowd broke into cheers and applause. In 1983, Joe Bonanno also wrote a book, A Man of Honor, which Rosalie wrote gave her the courage to come forward with her own book. Bonanno gestured with his hand as if there was a pistol in it and proxy-fired six shots at Dominicks head. That chronicled young Bonannos sudden takeover of the familys business in the late 1960s following the kidnaping of his father by rival mob factions during whats become celebrated as the Banana Wars. The book was turned into a CBS-TV movie (starring Joseph Bologna as Bill, Brenda Vaccaro as Rosalie and Raf Vallone as Joe) and made Bill Bonanno a national celebrity, frequent talk-show guest and sought-after college lecturer. Tony Bennett and the Four Lads performed for free. Besides his son Joseph, of Phoenix, who is a physician, Mr. Bonanno is survived by his wife of 51 years, the former Rosalie Profaci; a sister, Catherine Genovese of Pleasant Hill, Calif.; two other sons, Salvatore, of Scottsdale, Ariz., a software engineer, and Charles, of Phoenix, a long-haul truck driver; a daughter, Gigi Pettinato of Grass Valley, Calif.; 18 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. ''Yet through it all, she`s managed to build her own career as a real-estate broker and raise four beautiful children, get them through college and keep them completely apart from her husband`s lifestyle. More than anyone else, Dellinger is responsible for this story. In the early years after his return to US, he was employed at a bakery run by his uncle. He stayed on that path most of his life, dying of. In 1983, he put out A Man of Honor: The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno, a highly controversial book that outraged the mafia as Bonanno revealed several of their secrets to the public and the government through it.
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