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To neighbours, Francesco Di Carlo was an Italian wine bar owner living in a sprawling £400k home in an upmarket street in Woking. But in fact Di Carlo was a senior executive within Europe's most dangerous criminal faction, the dreaded Sicilian mafia. Former Senior Customs Investigator Jim Jarvie, who was on the taskforce set up to smash the gang, told the Mail how Di Carlo was similar to the mob boss made famous by James Gandolfini in The Sopranos. He said: 'I think he wanted to come across as just another businessman. He was fairly low key, apart from the Ferrari.'

The series, which debuted in 1999, followed Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), a mobster who tries to balance his duties as the head of the Soprano crime family with his actual family. After the sixth season of the celebrated drama wrapped up , series creator David Price extended the story in a feature film format with The Many Saints of Newark, which explored Tony's childhood. Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, Imperioli admitted that he would be interested to see a similar exploration of his character's own upbringing since 'he was a baby' in the project.

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Jamie-Lynn Sigler opened up about how supportive James Gandolfini was to her amid her battle with multiple sclerosis (MS). The 43-year-old actress recently revealed she only learned that her former The Sopranos co-star and on-screen father had been consistently donating to MS charities for her until after he passed away. During Tuesday's podcast episode of Life is Short with Justin Long , she opened up about how he kept her diagnosis a secret until she was ready to tell the world.

Teresa Guidice confronted Rachel Fuda and accused her husband of trying to ruin Luis 'Louie' Ruelas reputation on Sunday's premiere of The Real Housewives Of New Jersey on Bravo. The season 14 premiere titled Birthday Bombshell featured Teresa and Rachel squaring off at a surprise birthday bash for Jennifer Fessler.  'Your husband went for my husband, trying to ruin his reputation,' Teresa, 51, said to Rahcel.

As 2024 marks the 25th anniversary of the beloved HBO drama The Sopranos, women have celebrating by bringing the 'mob wife' aesthetic back. But perhaps the most important part of the look is a good set of French nails - and FEMAIL has spoken to Maria Salandra, the manicurist behind The Sopranos, to get all the best tips - literally. Salandra is the artist responsible for Carmela Soprano's famous French tipped nails, and many other of the characters' looks.

The long-rumored video produced by the New York Knicks in 2010 to entice LeBron James to sign in the Big Apple has finally surfaced, showing everyone from Donald Trump to Tony Soprano urging the NBA superstar to come to Madison Square Garden. 'The real winners of the world want to be here,' Trump said in the video, which was unearthed by podcaster Pablo Torre. 'They want to come to New York, whether it's Wall Street, whether it's fashion, no matter what it is, this is the place the real winners want to be.' James was undoubtedly the biggest free agent in league history at the time, and with a bevy of teams in position to sign him, a string of NBA executives paid the Akron native a visit to make their pitches.

The eBay listing for Holsten's in Bloomfield, a real New Jersey haunt where multiple scenes from the legendary HBO drama were shot, ended with a win for a bidder whose identity was not revealed. As the series's memorable conclusion coincides with Journey's 'Don't Stop Believin', the Soprano family (Mames Gandolfini), Carmela (Edie Falco), AJ (Robert Iler) and Meadow (Jamie Sigler) eats at the diner.' It's a total score for Holsten's, whose co-owner was hoping for $10,000 to help cover the estimated $60,000 it would cost to replace the booths.

If the price is correct, fans of The Sopranos will now own a must have piece of the hit HBO film. Nearly 17 years after the crime drama series ended, leaving many viewers wondering if their televisions had unexpectedly blacked out, Holsten's in Bloomfield, New Jersey, is now auctioning off the original booth where mob boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) and his family sat at during the final scene. As of Saturday evening, the eBay top bid has already received 218 bids, with the new top bid now priced at $76,300.

Drea de Matteo, the Sopranos' doomed Adriana, is releasing a new book that details her exacerbation with heroin use. The 52-year-old actress, who founded an OnlyFans account last year, was reacting to Mark Kamine's latest book On Locations: Lessons Learned From My Life On Set With The Sopranos And In The Film Industry. Kamine produced major films and television shows, including the Oscar winners of Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle, as well as the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning HBO series The White Lotus.

The three-time Emmy winner's personal struggles have been chronicled often, with HBO executives apprehension that he would die from alcohol and opioid binges before the series's conclusion. Mark Kamine, a location scout, has written a new book. 'On Locations: Lessons Learned from My Life On Set with The Sopranos and in the Film Industry.' In the show's fifth season, Kamine writes that his acquaintance with Gandolfini - who died of a heart attack in Rome in 2013 - began to fray.

Tony Soprano was a natural performer. But then he was raised by a monster, his psychotic mother Livia, who had attempted to have him killed. Tony himself was a murderer and an accomplice to many murders. He was a serial philanderer, to whom violence against women appeared as normal as breathing. Given his adenoidal difficulties, it may be simpler. Tony had no intention of menacing his wife Carmela, his counselor Dr Jennifer Melfi, or any other woman who enraged him. He was also a bigote and a homophobe. Nevertheless, he was the most recognizable one in his New Jersey crime family. The bulk of the men who served for him were miserable. Tony was also a fictional, superbly portrayed by James Gandolfini in arguably the best TV drama there has ever been, The Sopranos, which ran for six seasons from 1999 to 2007.

On Monday night, the Emmy Awards celebrated nostalgic cast reunions of some of the best and most beloved shows in television history. In an interview with Variety last week, Emmy Awards executive producers Jesse Collins, Dionne Harmon, and Jeannae Rouzan-Clay hinted two of these reunions for the hit 90s sitcom Martin and the hit legal thriller Ally McBeal. In the interview, Rouzan-Clay said, 'I think they'll be talking about the ones that they might not see on television.'

At Sunday's 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards, Sopranos actress Lorraine Bracco and Michael Imperioli paid their respects to the iconic HBO show for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Bracco, 69, appeared in the reimagined psychiatry office, where her character Dr. Jennifer Melfi treated Tony Soprano (played by James Gandolfini) throughout the seven seasons.

On Wednesday night, the stars of HBO's show The Sopranos were out in force, as they arrived at the 25th anniversary party. The bash took place at Da Nico Ristorante in Little Italy, New York, and the iconic one of the event turned heads when she appeared at the soirée. The actress wore all-black ensemble and without her signature glasses on the show, she looked a little different when not in character.

As HBO commemorated its 25th anniversary, James Gandolfini's son Michael looked exactly like his late father when he appeared on the Sopranos. Michael, 24, commanded the ball at the Da Nico Ristorante in Little Italy, New York, which was held on October 24. In The Sopranos' prequel, The Many Saints Of Newark, which was released in 2021, the actor appeared in the teenage version of Tony Soprano.

On Wednesday, the day HBO premiered The Sopranos, a number of actors and colleagues of the show made television history. On Wednesday, Michael Gandolfini, the son of late great James Gandolfini, arrived on the red carpet of a 25th anniversary celebration in New York City. In four episodes over the past two seasons, Julianna Margulies, who played Julianna Skiff, the mistress of Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), was joined by him.

Federico Castelluccio was unrecognizable from his clean-shaven, long-haired hitman character Furio Giunta when he arrived in Manhattan on Wednesday at the 25th anniversary of The Sopranos. At the red carpet dinner for the HBO tribute, the 59-year-old painter-director looked dapper wearing a black coat over a blue blazer, patterned scarf, black slacks, and matching Oxfords.

Ranker compiled a dynamic list of over 440 binge-worthy shows, ranking HBO's Game of Thrones first after nearly 12K votes. Stranger Things, a Netflix phenomenon, was closely followed in second place, and crime drama series Breaking Bad came in third place. Popular 90s show FRIENDS ranked sixth and was followed by 00s The Sopranos in seventh place

The Daily Mail's Weekend magazine has reached yet another magnificent milestone - this month we turn 30! We asked you to share our top ten TV shows so we could compile our definitive list of the 100 Greatest TV Shows voted for by you.

Fans of The Sopranos can buy a float piece of television history as a boat possessed by the show's patriarch has gone up for auction. In the cult classic series, Tony Soprano's boat, dubbed 'The Stugots,' has been listed on the market for $299,900. The yacht, now branded 'Never Enough,' is a 1999 Cape Fear 47 Sportfish replica and is currently docked in Stamford, Connecticut. It's not the first time the ship, which was on the first season of the legendary HBO show about a New Jersey mob family, has gone up for auction.

Michael Gandolfini, 24, and his partner, actress Mia Healey, 24, are in love. This week, the Many Saints of Newark actor was seen on PDA with his Australian love in New York City, announcing their new love.

On Tuesday's episode of The Real Housewives Of New Jersey on Bravo, Jennifer Fessler revealed that she had a sexual relationship with late actor James Gandolfini. After a brief stint at actor college, the 52-year-old 'friend' of the cast during a group trip to Ireland revealed that she became a talent agent. 'How many people did you sleep with?' Margaret Josephs, 56, wondered.