Women like Mae Capone and Victoria DiGiorgio Gotti stood behind their gangster husbands for better or for worse.

For centuries, the Lion of Venice has loomed over the Italian city as one of its most famous landmarks. It was long thought that the iconic sculpture originated in Anatolia, but a recent study ...

At first, Aaron Hernandez captivated America because of his astounding feats on the football field. Then, it was the accusation that he’d murdered his acquaintance Odin Lloyd. And finally, it was ...

Archaeologists working at Yeşilova Mound in İzmir, Türkiye, have uncovered an 8,200-year-old kohl pen, believed to be the world’s oldest example of eyeliner. The site, occupied between 6500 to 4000 ...

Pupetta Maresca wasn’t an American mob wife, but she did make a name for herself when she married Pasquale Simonetti, a member of the Italian crime organization known as the Camorra. Assunta Maresca, ...

John Gotti is one of New York’s most infamous mobsters. He frequently made headlines — and right beside him was his wife, Victoria DiGiorgio Gotti. Despite her husband’s notoriety, Victoria Gotti has ...

Of all the mob wives on this list, perhaps none were as glamorous as Anna Genovese. The wife of Vito Genovese — one of New York’s most powerful mobsters — Anna was the mobster’s second wife. The two ...

Geri McGee was much more involved in the mob business than Mae Capone. Whereas the latter was certainly aware of what her husband did, McGee was an active participant in many of the hustles her ...

Vincent “Mad Dog” Coll was an aggressive, bullish member of the Irish mob, and his wife was no different. Born Charlotte Denninger in New York in 1899, she married her first husband, Samuel Kreisberg, ...

Wiseguy, the 1955 book about Henry Hill’s life in the mob, eventually went on to serve as the inspiration for the hit film Goodfellas, and while the movie gets the story mostly right, it isn’t a ...

Being a mobster is dangerous, but evidently, so is being a mob wife. Alice Granville was mostly known as an actress, though there is shockingly little information on her available. In fact, most ...