Dr. Joseph Bonanno married a woman he met as an undergraduate ... but as you know I am still on vacation in the Mediterranean Sea." The elder Bonanno would die at 97 at his Tucson home in 2002.

Joseph Bonanno, the notorious gangster known as “Joe Bananas” who ran one of the nation’s most powerful Mafia groups in the 1950s and ‘60s, died Saturday in Tucson. He was 97. Bonanno ...

Mob kingpin Joseph Bonanno remained a web of contradictions until the second he drew his final breath. Articulate, polite and impeccably dressed, the mob boss was nonetheless at the epicenter of ...

The story of the Bonanno crime family already is the stuff of Hollywood best sellers. The family patriarch, Joseph Bonanno, was the model for Don Corleone in Mario Puzo’s “The Godfather.

TUCSON, May 12 (UPI) -- Joseph Bonanno, a top Mafia godfather who survived gangland wars and decades of eager prosecutors, died Saturday of natural causes. He was 97. Surrounded by family members ...

He was 75. The cause was a heart attack, his son Joseph said. Mr. Bonanno’s father, Joseph Bonanno, known as “Joe Bananas,” had come to the United States from Sicily with his parents in 1906.