5 Real Gangsters Who Were Darker Than Their Movies

There is a scene near the end of a 1997 gangster movie that people still talk about. He takes off his watch, his ring and his chain, leaves them in a drawer for his wife, and walks out the door to his death. Hollywood has turned real gangsters into some of the most famous characters in film. Chapters 0:00 The movies vs. the real story 1:04 How the list works 1:10 Bulger 6:28 Spilotro 11:44 Siegel 16:59 Desimone 22:08 Napolitano 27:11 What the films left out AI disclosure Some images in this video are AI-generated reconstructions of historical scenes and people, based on real archival references. All archival photographs, film and documents are real and credited below. Some of these AI images depict real people (Anthony Tony Spilotro, Benjamin Bugsy Siegel, Dominick Sonny Black Napolitano, James Whitey Bulger, Thomas Tommy DeSimone). They were generated using real photographs of them as reference and are illustrations, not authentic photographs. Sources Thumbnail reference photo of Bugsy Siegel (1944): Los Angeles Daily News / UCLA Library Digital Collections, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) TriStar Pictures / Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers -    • Donnie Brasco (1997) Trailer #1   TriStar Pictures / Movieclips -    • I'm Glad It Was Him - Donnie Brasco (8/8) ...   FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation -    • FBI Surveillance Footage of John Gotti   Unripe Content -    • Super 8 mm cinema projector. Free HD video...   British Pathe -    • Movie Premieres I British Pathé   Warner Bros. -    • Black Mass - Official Main Trailer [HD]   Universal Pictures -    • Casino | "Meeting in the Desert Always Mad...   TriStar Pictures / TrailerHome -    • Bugsy (1991) Trailer | Warren Beatty | Ann...   Warner Bros. Entertainment -    • Goodfellas | How Am I Funny? 25th Annivers...   Oscars / Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences -    • Joe Pesci Wins Supporting Actor: 1991 Oscars   Pixabay - https://pixabay.com/videos/id-1335/ British Pathe -    • Kefauver Crime Probe New York (1951)   8 News NOW / KLAS-TV -    • 1984: Lefty Rosenthal Survives Car Bomb   CBS Mornings / 60 Minutes -    • How the FBI caught "Whitey" Bulger   Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Full source and licence list: pinned comment. Music Evacuation by Sascha Ende — ende.app License: CC BY 4.0 (ende.app/standard-license) Hades by Sascha Ende — ende.app License: CC BY 4.0 (ende.app/standard-license)