Tullio Adami (11 July 1952-26 February 2008) was an Italian crime boss who was active in the Roman port town of Ostia during the 2000s. In 2008, he was murdered on the orders of the crime boss Samurai for seeking vengeance against the Anacleti clan for an attempt on his son's life. His daughter Livia Adami took the reins of the clan on his death.
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Tullio Adami was born in Rome, Lazio, Italy in 1952. He was an old friend of Samurai, the dominant crime boss in Rome during the early 21st century, and his own Adami clan dominated the nearby port town of Ostia, where the clan ran several clubs and trafficked drugs. Adami worked with his children Livia Adami and Aureliano Adami, the latter of whom he bore hard feelings against due to the death of Adami's wife while giving birth to Aureliano, as well as due to Aureliano's rebellious nature.
However, in 2008, he sought vengeance against the Anacleti clan after they attempted to kill Aureliano for Aureliano's own murder of Boris Anacleti. Samurai came to Tullio and attempted to sort things out to prevent a war between the Adamis and the Romani from complicating his plans to buy a large beachfront property in Ostia, but Tullio said that his son's shooting meant that another Gypsy boy would have to die. Tullio's open defiance of Samurai led to Samurai deciding to have Tullio killed, seeing Tullio, and not Aureliano, as the problem.
Samurai forced Aureliano's friend Gabriele Marchilli to carry out the assassination to repay a debt he owed to Samurai, and Marchilli met Tullio one afternoon while visiting Aureliano to collect the belongings which Aureliano had stolen on behalf of Gabriele to help pay off Gabriele's debt. Tullio was friendly towards Gabriele, as he was grateful for Gabriele's help in saving his son's life. However, Gabriele, whose own father's life was at stake if he refused the hit, tailed Tullio as he visited his long-time lover, a prostitute, and he attempted to kill Tullio as he left his lover's home at night.
Gabriele accidentally shot the prostitute in the stomach, and he chased Tullio and shot him three times in the chest with a handgun as Tullio attempted to charge him. The police were called by neighbors, alerted by the sound of gunshots, and Tullio's body was discovered. Most people were initially convinced that the Anacletis were responsible for Adami's death.
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