Goodfellas: The REAL Paulie Cicero/Paul Vario

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  • Опубліковано 16 бер 2024
  • Goodfellas introduced America to a lot of complex characters, from Tommy DeSimone to Jimmy Burke, but perhaps the most mysterious was Paulie Cicero aka Paul Vario. Today we will look at Goodfellas most enigmatic characrer.
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  • @universal3024
    @universal3024 3 місяці тому +130

    “Pauly might’ve moved slow. But it’s because Pauly didn’t have to move for anybody ..”

    • @dr.barrycohn5461
      @dr.barrycohn5461 3 місяці тому +11

      That's Big Paulie to you.

    • @luisbohorquez7096
      @luisbohorquez7096 3 місяці тому +2

      Ha ha nice..😅👍🤙🍺

    • @andypotter6886
      @andypotter6886 3 місяці тому +6

      Looking at the size of the guy no wonder he always moved slowly. Not like he could run fast is it 😂😂😂

    • @HypnoticHollywood
      @HypnoticHollywood 3 місяці тому +5

      @@andypotter6886 When they said he moved slow they weren't referring to his walking pace.

    • @joelhall5124
      @joelhall5124 3 місяці тому

      Probably too fat to move much

  • @ChristopherRoche
    @ChristopherRoche 3 місяці тому +91

    Vario was an absolute maniac. His portrayal in the movie was great, but the real guy was horrible lol.

    • @frankdenardo8684
      @frankdenardo8684 3 місяці тому +2

      I remember Burt Lancaster playing Robert Stroud in Birdman of Alcatraz. He played a good natured prisoner who studied disease of birds and even wrote books about it. In real life, he was a violent, homicidal, homosexual who spent half a century in prison. Pauley kicked the bucket while in prison along with Jimmy Burke.

    • @AdamMichalMarkowski
      @AdamMichalMarkowski 2 місяці тому +1

      @@frankdenardo8684 And both due to lung cancer, strange. Not saying there is some conspiracy, just strange.

    • @frankdenardo8684
      @frankdenardo8684 2 місяці тому +2

      @AdamMichalMarkowski They smoked. Jimmy smoked cigarettes and Pauly smoked Cuban cigars.

    • @user-bm8iu7hh3k
      @user-bm8iu7hh3k 2 місяці тому

      Well, bastards run the USA, so, what can we expect from its citizens let alone the mob

    • @LeftistJuden
      @LeftistJuden Місяць тому +2

      ​@@AdamMichalMarkowski
      Tobacco causes lung cancer and they were are chain smokers I believe playing poker and smoking constantly in the movies at least

  • @stevejohnston2138
    @stevejohnston2138 3 місяці тому +24

    He looks like demented taxi driver.

  • @DonRoccoRicardo
    @DonRoccoRicardo 3 місяці тому +54

    "Don't put too many onions in the sauce."

    • @simonfea2
      @simonfea2 3 місяці тому +2

      Ya. Ya.

    • @brianbelton3605
      @brianbelton3605 3 місяці тому +2

      @@simonfea2 Johnny Did did the meat

    • @universal3024
      @universal3024 3 місяці тому +5

      “I didn’t put too many onions in the sauce ..”

    • @georgecoons6872
      @georgecoons6872 3 місяці тому +3

      No I only put two small onions in it that's all.

    • @universal3024
      @universal3024 2 місяці тому +2

      @@georgecoons6872 “how many cans of tomato sauce you put in. 2 cans. I put, 2 big cans in ..”

  • @josh24441
    @josh24441 3 місяці тому +52

    One thing that bothers me about the movie is how they portrayed Paulie as like a father figure to Henry. If you’ve ever read the book Wiseguy, and the one that came after it, Paulie was a POS scumbag.

    • @exclamationpointman3852
      @exclamationpointman3852 3 місяці тому +6

      AND HE TRIED RAPE HILLS WIFE WHEN HE WAS IN JAIL!!!!! THESE ARE THE WORST OF THE WORST!!!

    • @rickp46
      @rickp46 3 місяці тому

      ​@@exclamationpointman3852 cant rape the willing. Karen wasnt no innocent child.

    • @josh24441
      @josh24441 3 місяці тому +11

      @@exclamationpointman3852 no that was Tommy. Paulie pimped her out

    • @exclamationpointman3852
      @exclamationpointman3852 3 місяці тому

      @@josh24441 correct. All that "honor among gangsters" is straight trash

    • @michaelmcgee2026
      @michaelmcgee2026 3 місяці тому

      ​@@exclamationpointman3852calm down

  • @gordonmckay4780
    @gordonmckay4780 3 місяці тому +10

    Thanks for posting, I love stories about the Mob as much as I love the American Wild West. It's gruesome but fascinating.

  • @simonfea2
    @simonfea2 3 місяці тому +13

    Pauly was a POS!?! When you have to do that to a girl to get someone to touch you, especially at such a young age, he is really going to wreck lives and he ages. What a monster.

    • @MrRyan-wu4jx
      @MrRyan-wu4jx 22 дні тому +1

      Lack of physical relations isn’t always the reason for something like that. Some people just like to hurt and control others.

    • @rdtsfrfgs
      @rdtsfrfgs 8 днів тому

      @@MrRyan-wu4jx its the same kind of thinking that makes people say "she was ugly so she didnt get raped" or "that guys gets so much pussy why would he rape". some people just get off on raping, thats it

  • @Truckngirl
    @Truckngirl 2 місяці тому +5

    Great narration!

  • @abdominalsnowman5848
    @abdominalsnowman5848 3 місяці тому +2

    Great video, great information…
    Thank you

  • @PaulieCicero1
    @PaulieCicero1 15 днів тому +4

    Now i gotta turn my back on you

  • @joelhall5124
    @joelhall5124 3 місяці тому +9

    Surprising they admitted him or made him, he sounds like a liability even to the mafia.

  • @travishancock2302
    @travishancock2302 3 місяці тому +15

    Damn seven months for skipping school

  • @Larry_Amor
    @Larry_Amor 3 місяці тому +10

    Wait he got charged for rape and was still a made man smh 😮

    • @universal3024
      @universal3024 3 місяці тому +6

      There’s no honor among thieves ..

    • @JH-hg1ok
      @JH-hg1ok 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@@universal3024well no

  • @thewaywardtrio
    @thewaywardtrio Місяць тому

    Great video…

  • @joseyeastwood
    @joseyeastwood 3 місяці тому +7

    How that guy was ever made or even survived jail with a charge of that nature i don’t understand.

    • @davidbutler9808
      @davidbutler9808 2 місяці тому +1

      Different era. The gangs haven’t yet taken control of the prison systems and instituted their rules such as targeting sex offenders.

    • @KrishnaSingh-ow1ie
      @KrishnaSingh-ow1ie 28 днів тому

      How did he become a made man for rsing a young girl. I thought the mob had some little

  • @ronalddesiderio7625
    @ronalddesiderio7625 3 місяці тому +12

    I was a bartender at a golf course on eastern Long Island that was owned by the teamsters. They sold to a hanful of investors but a lot of the boys stayed for a few years. Once a year they had an outing for the nyc boys. I was always called into the office to see Paulies son who was running the outing. Tug on the elbow by mgr. Go to the office Ronnie.
    How’s everything ronnie?
    All good Mr. Vario. Good
    Hand me an envelope.
    Thank you Mr. Vario.
    Your welcome good job. Thats my story and its true. I don’t know nothing 🤷🏾‍♂️

    • @bradsanders407
      @bradsanders407 3 місяці тому +2

      What a stupid story. Say something insightful ffs. No one cares about someone allegedly handing someone an envelope for seemingly no reason. Jagoff

    • @dondamon4669
      @dondamon4669 2 місяці тому +2

      What? Load of rubbish

  • @numberonebosslady4969
    @numberonebosslady4969 3 місяці тому +21

    Big Paul Vario is a legend! My dad has a ton of horror stories about this guy!

    • @mikegleed5842
      @mikegleed5842 3 місяці тому +4

      Spill the Beans 😎

    • @exclamationpointman3852
      @exclamationpointman3852 3 місяці тому +17

      LEGEND IS FOR GOOD PEOPLE, NOT EVIL DIRT BAGS!!!

    • @numberonebosslady4969
      @numberonebosslady4969 3 місяці тому +5

      @exclamationpointman3852 the title of legend isn't just for good people.... That's an ignorant comment

    • @exclamationpointman3852
      @exclamationpointman3852 3 місяці тому +8

      @@numberonebosslady4969 I might be wrong but legend is more used with good people instead of arch criminals like this guy.

    • @blackway643
      @blackway643 3 місяці тому

      He’s a vile grapist

  • @PinkyJujubean
    @PinkyJujubean 3 місяці тому +14

    I work with a dude named Pauly and whenever I ask him for something I always say it like a mobster. "Yo Pauly, hand me that knife or I'll send some guys over"

  • @keithharrison9797
    @keithharrison9797 3 місяці тому +4

    Pauly lived a total life of crime, a absolute career criminal !

  • @adamirishconundrum851
    @adamirishconundrum851 3 місяці тому +11

    Paulie used stolen credit cards, which he called "Muldoon's" to pay for dinner because the liquor tasted better on a Muldoon. Paulie loved his wife, he loved food and booze but the best part of the night for Paulie was the fact that he was getting over on somebody.

  • @Onnitfan1
    @Onnitfan1 3 місяці тому +8

    3 small onions

  • @dr.barrycohn5461
    @dr.barrycohn5461 3 місяці тому

    Interesting history on big paulie.

  • @dumdebadaba
    @dumdebadaba Місяць тому +1

    The police work on Vario's case wasn't sloppy, but deliberately negligent. Who needs their cash cow disappearing in jail?

  • @jamilor
    @jamilor 3 дні тому

    Hollywood always glamorizes these criminals with charming actors playing them and most of them look like trolls in real life.

  • @qualityserviceexperts9996
    @qualityserviceexperts9996 3 місяці тому

    I never had to worry about Lore Enforcement no matter what I've done.

  • @ZomegJ
    @ZomegJ 3 місяці тому +1

    I thought it was a different Paulie that died in prison later on.

  • @nastynate1219
    @nastynate1219 3 місяці тому +7

    He went out like "Griggs" who died in prison after he got 10 year for talking to a jerk who was selling junk behind his back.

  • @user-jh7wc4tu1p
    @user-jh7wc4tu1p 3 місяці тому +3

    Nice. Good stuff

  • @massdebated
    @massdebated Місяць тому +1

    Mommy whats a contract killer?

  • @leemontoya8028
    @leemontoya8028 3 місяці тому +9

    Paul was pipping Hills Wife or was it his Mom? one of the two! gross!

  • @davidbutler9808
    @davidbutler9808 3 місяці тому +3

    Handsome devil wasn’t he.

    • @DiabolicalMind420
      @DiabolicalMind420 2 місяці тому

      A face not even a mother could love.

    • @henrywallacesghost5883
      @henrywallacesghost5883 Місяць тому

      You understand why he had to resort to rape just to get laid. This guy fell off the ugly tree and climbed back up again😂

  • @tripmcneely6519
    @tripmcneely6519 3 місяці тому +6

    Wait a minute wait a minute, are you telling me that Paul Sorvino wasn't the REAL Paul Vario?

  • @ronniebishop2496
    @ronniebishop2496 2 місяці тому

    Pauly was probably a pretty good old boy, if he took medication. But he didn’t. 😅

  • @billg7205
    @billg7205 3 місяці тому +2

    Real stain on the mob for taking this guy on

  • @coreymichae3747
    @coreymichae3747 Місяць тому

    It’s always funny how the actor looks more like a mobster than the actual parson

    • @GuitarGuru357-rz9eb
      @GuitarGuru357-rz9eb Місяць тому

      In real life, most of them were gray-haired, googly-eyed, barrel-assed wops.

  • @triker114
    @triker114 3 місяці тому +3

    then he got a govenent job and money rolled in

  • @YtIzSnoWFlakeS
    @YtIzSnoWFlakeS 17 днів тому

    Devito?!🧐 Disimon pal😜

  • @njez7563
    @njez7563 Місяць тому +3

    Wow the movie version is a saint compared to him

  • @AlphonseWeebay
    @AlphonseWeebay Місяць тому

    🍇 merchant

  • @triker114
    @triker114 3 місяці тому

    its a new york hibit that lives on todays

    • @exclamationpointman3852
      @exclamationpointman3852 3 місяці тому

      THANKS TO THE GOOD ITALIAN AMERICAN MAYOR GIULIANI WHO DECIMATED THEM TO SAVE NEW YORK
      AND WHO THE WORST CRIME BOSS EVER IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA IS NOW ATTACKING:
      JOE BIDEN!!!!

  • @Yasser.Osman.A.Z.
    @Yasser.Osman.A.Z. 2 місяці тому

    People get sentenced for truancy?!! 😮. Wth?! What kind of school locks a child for truancy?!!

    • @eyeseer1
      @eyeseer1 Місяць тому

      The law was stranger in the past.

  • @BoHannon-kx6kb
    @BoHannon-kx6kb Місяць тому

    11:10
    Say THAT five-times fast hahaha!

  • @stevearkie5722
    @stevearkie5722 21 день тому

    Vario reputation and his face of a real mobster compare to the actors well maintain face .

  • @georgecoons6872
    @georgecoons6872 3 місяці тому +3

    In 2024 you can do anything you want in new york city and not worry about going to prison

  • @oneflyguy1949
    @oneflyguy1949 25 днів тому

    but not murder?!

  • @user-wl6bw3jl4n
    @user-wl6bw3jl4n 23 дні тому

    Real greaseball shit. And there was nothing we can do about it.

  • @joelhall5124
    @joelhall5124 3 місяці тому +1

    A lot of this is hyperbole or lies from Henry Hill.

  • @ottodachat
    @ottodachat Місяць тому

    what is amazing about Vario was his total commitment to crime, you'd think after raping the 18 year old, he'd find a different type of legal enterprise, instead he was stubborn and continued a life of crime. No doubt he was a psychopath.

    • @DoryHolidaii440
      @DoryHolidaii440 12 днів тому

      The girl he raped was 16, not 18. Still extremely wrong!!

  • @jimmyspliff7925
    @jimmyspliff7925 3 місяці тому +4

    Tommy Devito 👀😂

  • @jazsingh-yk4bi
    @jazsingh-yk4bi 3 місяці тому +1

    Tommy Devito???

    • @robertwinfree3197
      @robertwinfree3197 3 місяці тому +1

      Most of the principals were still living when the movie came out so they used pseudonyms. Tommy had been killed but they chose a fictional name for the movie. Maybe they were trying to avoid any potential lawsuits.

    • @supermotocj4107
      @supermotocj4107 3 місяці тому

      I caught that too. He says a different last name later as well

    • @henrywallacesghost5883
      @henrywallacesghost5883 Місяць тому

      I don't think it was the potential lawsuits but for what the subject matter was about. Your old childhood friend writes his life story and just says you were a jerk wouldn't make a lawsuit. Now if he says you molested him and isn't true, then you can get a big payday for defamation.

  • @ronalddesiderio7625
    @ronalddesiderio7625 3 місяці тому +2

    Now they throw the book 📕 at us Guinneas for doin nuthin. It was good business back than

  • @SmittyAZ
    @SmittyAZ 2 місяці тому

    We still celebrate and cheer these 'kind' of gang members, but the ones from across the tracks?

    • @eyeseer1
      @eyeseer1 Місяць тому +1

      Blame Hollywood.

  • @schwartzenheimer1
    @schwartzenheimer1 3 місяці тому +2

    Re: Don Peppe's: of course Henry Hill would NEVER embellish. Never...

  • @paulwillard9687
    @paulwillard9687 2 місяці тому +4

    New York with a crooked justice system not exactly much has changed ask Mr Trump 😂

  • @stevearkie5722
    @stevearkie5722 21 день тому

    Yeah doing terrible in school there’s still hope for you kid the mafia ?

  • @kc0lif
    @kc0lif 3 місяці тому +2

    real goodfellas bunch a lot worser in life.

  • @LaurieMarieValdezRNCCRN
    @LaurieMarieValdezRNCCRN 2 місяці тому

    🏥😱🙏💔

  • @exclamationpointman3852
    @exclamationpointman3852 3 місяці тому +5

    GOODFELLAS??? GOODRIDDANCE!!!!
    GOD MADE HELL FOR A REASON!!!!

  • @lancelance9314
    @lancelance9314 3 місяці тому +3

    Lufthansa not Air France

  • @vincevincent6984
    @vincevincent6984 3 місяці тому +4

    Stacks was the weak link & ruined it all lol.

    • @exclamationpointman3852
      @exclamationpointman3852 3 місяці тому

      THE LORD FOREVER SET A STUMBLING STONE BEFORE THE WICKED!!! THEY THINK THE DARKNESS HAS COVERED THEM
      BUT THE LORD CREATED DARK AND LIGHT AND LOOKING RIGHT AT THEM!!!!
      THE BAD THING ABOUT CRIMINALS: THEY ARE STUPID;
      THE GOOD THING ABOUT CRIMINALS: THEY ARE STUPID!!!!

    • @666FallenShadow
      @666FallenShadow 3 місяці тому

      @@exclamationpointman3852mate your god ain't doin' shit most top criminals get away with their crimes scot free one or two of these guys getting taken down by the law is just a drop in the ocean of crime

    • @universal3024
      @universal3024 3 місяці тому

      They were all murderous crooks ..

    • @vincevincent6984
      @vincevincent6984 3 місяці тому

      @@universal3024 They most certainly were 👌

    • @dondamon4669
      @dondamon4669 2 місяці тому

      ​Not really they just don't want to live the traditional life the government has told you to and dont want a boss

  • @az_tinkerer_gamer
    @az_tinkerer_gamer Місяць тому +2

    Funny how movies always romanticized mafia.

  • @dr.barrycohn5461
    @dr.barrycohn5461 3 місяці тому +4

    Sent up the river (Hudson, that is) several times to Sing Sing. Nice. Total lunatic.

  • @Puchiaca69
    @Puchiaca69 2 місяці тому

    Garbage this is no mafia this is garbage street gang no mafia

  • @theodorepetine7562
    @theodorepetine7562 Місяць тому

    These are the guys we need in D.C.

  • @NYCSLIM718
    @NYCSLIM718 3 місяці тому +4

    I find it funny how the real mobsters look like sh¡t but the actors that play them in the movies don't reflect any type of resemblance 😂😂😂

    • @bradsanders407
      @bradsanders407 3 місяці тому +2

      Guess you're new to how things work in the movies.

  • @timhunt1482
    @timhunt1482 2 місяці тому +1

    He i he is lucky he didn't meet me I'm from
    E the south side of chicago

  • @Itiswhatitis2024
    @Itiswhatitis2024 3 місяці тому +3

    A bunch of thieves, all they did was steal & yall talk about all these other races stealing ha 😂😂

  • @robbarense2133
    @robbarense2133 Місяць тому

    Italians - such nice people - LOL!!!

  • @iain4918
    @iain4918 3 місяці тому +4

    So all that talk about not hurting women is shit why would the mafia have a rapist in their family 🤔

    • @blackway643
      @blackway643 3 місяці тому +4

      Of course it’s all lies. The no drug dealing, no hurting women etc. it’s all bologna.

    • @universal3024
      @universal3024 3 місяці тому

      There’s no honor among thieves.

    • @JH-hg1ok
      @JH-hg1ok 2 місяці тому

      Stealing is non sexual rape

    • @iain4918
      @iain4918 2 місяці тому +1

      @JH-hg1ok he got done for rape look it up that's why it's one of the reasons they clearly have no honour

  • @derekspence6994
    @derekspence6994 Місяць тому

    thick

  • @Blacc_yoshi
    @Blacc_yoshi 3 місяці тому +1

    So Paulie was a raper they made sure to leave that out of Goodfellas

    • @LivingOnCash
      @LivingOnCash 3 місяці тому

      He was also banging Henry Hill's wife.

    • @henrywallacesghost5883
      @henrywallacesghost5883 Місяць тому

      It's OK because both parties leave that out when they pick their presidential candidates.

    • @Blacc_yoshi
      @Blacc_yoshi Місяць тому

      @@henrywallacesghost5883 😂🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂 well said