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Gangster
Frank Ancelotti
Biographical Information
Aliases Frankie
Gender Male
Born April 2, 1899
Salerno, Campania, Italy
Died September 11, 1933 (aged 34)
Five Points, New York, United States
Affiliation Ancelotti Gang
Ancelotti crime family
Title(s) Underboss

Frank "Underboss Frankie" Ancelotti was an Italian gangster who was the younger brother of Little Italy crime boss Sammy Ancelotti. He was nicknamed "Underboss Frankie" because he was the second-in-command to Sammy for his whole life, and was murdered in 1933 by the rival Gambetti Gang.

Biography[]

Ancelotti was born in Salerno, a big sea city near Naples, Italy, to a family of goatherders and ranch-hands. Ancelotti was the younger brother of Samuele Ancelotti. The two of them immigrated to the United States in 1921, without a dime in their pocket, giving up their life as farm workers to achieve greatness. Frank was younger, so he got the position of second-in-command when Samuele gathered his friends and created the Ancelotti Gang in The Bowery. Sammy's organization expanded, with Frankie personally leading the attacks on other gangs and the extortion of shopkeepers. He was also the manager of a speakeasy, which made lots of money through the Prohibition era. 

Frankie was well-liked by his enforcers, and was seen as a funny and cheerful fellow, while Sammy was seen as strict and temperful. Frankie was seen as the real boss of the gang by many, but Sammy asserted control over the crime family as supreme leader of the Ancelotti crime family in 1928. Frankie became the Underboss of the Ancelotti Family, while some of his former crew members became caporegimes and soldati. Ancelotti was in charge of the main operations of the family in the field, and acted against the Gambettis on many occasions. The Gambetti Gang were also from the area, and became the Gambetti crime family in 1932. 

Death[]

In revenge for Ancelotti's actions against his gang, John Gambetti and Carlo Gambetti (The "Gambetti Brothers") plotted out his death. Carlo and John, equipped with Thompson sub-machine guns, riddled him with bullets as he left his safehouse on Mulberry Street in the Five Points. Ancelotti's bulletproof vest caught all seventeen bullets, but some of the shrapnel from one bullet lodged in his neck. Ancelotti's wounds proved fatal, and he died on September 11, three days after the Five Points shootout. The NYPD investigated the case, but Carlo Gambetti paid them off to blame it on a random bypasser, Gregor Mendelsky.

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