Bruno Tattaglia during his "meeting" with Luca Brasi, circa 1945.
Bruno Tattaglia (1910-1950) was a Tattaglia crime family underboss and the son of Don Philip Tattaglia. He played a key role in the Five Families War, during which he was murdered by the Corleone crime family.
Biography[]
Tattaglia in 1945
Bruno Tattaglia was born in Sicily in 1910, the son of Philip Tattaglia. At a young age, he immigrated to New York City, New York, and he spoke English with a strong Italian accent, after completing college in 1928, Bruno Tattaglia officially joined his father's organization as a Soldato, Not so much later Bruno Tattaglia became the underboss of the Tattaglia crime family under his father, and he became known as a sadistic man. In 1945, Tattaglia and Virgil Sollozzo dealt a major blow to the Corleone crime family by killing Luca Brasi at the Luna Bar after Brasi attempted to infiltrate the Tattaglias as a spy.
Tattaglia later used his friendship with NYPD captain Mark McCluskey to make McCluskey into Sollozzo's personal bodyguard, and he assisted him in the attempt to assassinate Don Vito Corleone. This was foiled, and Sonny Corleone struck back against the Tattaglias; Bruno's own brother Johnny Tattaglia was murdered by Aldo Trapani during the war. In 1950, Tattaglia retaliated by murdering Trapani's girlfriend Frances Malone at a church in Brooklyn, and an enraged Trapani worked with Sonny Corleone to draw Tattaglia into a trap.
Death[]
Corleone and Trapani kidnapped and killed a Tattaglia capo at Stromboli Supplies in Hell's Kitchen, and Bruno Tattaglia and several bodyguards attended the funeral at Tito Morelli's funeral parlor in Midtown. At the funeral parlor, Trapani shot his way past the bodyguards before entering the basement, where he killed Tattaglia's bodyguard Massimo. He then proceeded to wound Tattaglia before throwing him into the cremation oven, burning him alive. His death caused Don Tattaglia to plot Corleone's death later that same year.