The Real Tommy DeSimone Made Joe Pesci Look Like a Puppy

Описание: Joe Pesci won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor playing Tommy DeVito. Henry Hill, the man who knew the real Tommy DeSimone better than anyone, said the performance was ninety to ninety-nine percent accurate. Except for one thing. Joe Pesci is five feet four inches tall. The real Tommy DeSimone was six feet two and weighed two hundred twenty-five pounds.
That single fact changes everything. The movie built Tommy's terror on the comedy of a small, volatile man overcompensating with violence. The real Tommy did not need to overcompensate for anything. He walked into rooms as the largest man in them. And he was still the most dangerous person there.
This documentary tells the full, verified story of Thomas Anthony DeSimone. Every murder. Every detail the movie changed. And the one thing Goodfellas never showed you — the moment DeSimone walked into an empty room in Howard Beach wearing his finest clothes, having been told he was finally going to be made, and understood in the last seconds of his life that the promise was the weapon.
What you will learn:

The full DeSimone family criminal architecture — grandfather and uncle both bosses of the Los Angeles crime family, two brothers Gambino associates, sister the mistress of Jimmy Burke — and how DeSimone was born into organized crime before he ever chose it
His first murder at age seventeen or eighteen — Howard Goldstein, a stranger on the street, no motive, no instruction, and the exact words he said to Henry Hill afterward
The Air France robbery of April seventh, nineteen sixty-seven — four hundred twenty thousand dollars, no alarm, no shots fired, DeSimone surgical and calm
The Billy Batts murder in full — the fourteen-day wait the movie compressed into one night, the highway stop, the knife from his mother's kitchen, and the body crushed in a New Jersey junkyard
What DeSimone did to Karen Hill — the attempted rape that never made it into Wiseguy or Goodfellas but appears in Hill's later memoir
The real death — the disputed accounts from Hill, Agro, and Polisi, the shot in the face so his mother could not give him an open casket, and his wife borrowing sixty dollars from her
Why the movie's version of Tommy's death was the most merciful possible reading of events that may have been far slower and far worse

Key Figures: Tommy DeSimone, Henry Hill, Jimmy Burke, Billy Batts, Spider, Paul Vario, John Gotti
Verified Sources:

Nicholas Pileggi, Wiseguy (Simon and Schuster, nineteen eighty-five)
Henry Hill and Gus Russo, Gangsters and Goodfellas (M. Evans, two thousand and four)
Wikipedia: Thomas DeSimone — cross-referenced with Wikidata and multiple genealogical records
AllThatsInteresting.com: "The Real Story of Tommy DeSimone"
Den of Geek: "The Real Goodfellas: The Mysterious Fate of Tommy DeSimone"

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