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Vincent Louis Gigante (March 29, 1928 – December 19, 2005), also known as "the Chin", was an American mobster who was boss of the Genovese crime family from 1981 to 2005 in New York City. Gigante started out as a professional boxer who fought in 25 matches between 1944 and 1947. He then started working as a Mafia enforcer for what was then the Luciano crime family, forerunner of the Genovese family. Gigante was one of five brothers; three of them, Mario, Pasquale, and Ralph, followed him into the Mafia. Only one brother, Louis, stayed out of the crime family, instead becoming a priest. Gigante was the shooter in the failed assassination of longtime Luciano boss Frank Costello in 1957. In 1959, he was sentenced to seven years in prison for drug trafficking, and after sharing a prison cell with Costello's rival, Vito Genovese, Gigante became a caporegime overseeing his own crew of Genovese soldiers and associates who operated out of Greenwich Village.
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29 March 1928 Manhattan, New York, U.S.
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19 December 2005 (aged 77) Springfield, Missouri, U.S.
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