![]() ![]() ![]() But the irony doesn’t end there, as Newark’s portrayal of Luciano highlights numerous other points within the telling of this story. He somehow managed to shoot himself with his very first gun at the age of 14. The environment that he grew up in was austere, violent, with high unemployment and strikes a common feature, and making an honest living was at a premium. Much of his early criminal acts were learned whilst running protection rackets with other immigrant gangs. In 1907 he emigrated to America with his family to live in the notorious Lower East Side district of New York. A reputation built on 25 years of fear was enhanced, supported and even officially recognised to maintain the man, myth and legend of Lucky Luciano.Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano – or Salvatore Luciana to his mum – was born in Sicily on 11th of November 1897. The truth of the matter was that Luciano’s international drug empire and reputation for helping the Allies in Sicily and the Mediterranean win the Second World War was manipulated from above. In illustrating Luciano’s rise to notoriety in the criminal underworld to how he was manipulated like a puppet into believing his own self-proclaimed status as a criminal mastermind. ![]() Tim Newark wastes no time in tearing apart the man, the myth and legend of Lucky Luciano. ![]()
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