Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Five Families: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Related People Joseph Bonanno • John Gotti • Paul Castellano • Lucky Luciano • Salvatore Maranzano • Joseph Colombo • Joseph Profaci • Albert Anastasia

Photos

Lucky Luciano
Lucchese crime family boss Anthony Corallo
Vincent Asaro raises his arms and smiles while walking with his lawyers outside a Brooklyn courthouse.
Former leader of the Colombo crime family
One of the Gambino crime family leaders
One of the leaders of the Luciano crime family
Salvatore Corsitto leans in to speak to Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in a dimly lit scene from the film The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
Vito Genovese
Paul Castellano
See All Images →