Mobster - "Goodfella" Paul Vario
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- Paul Vario was a mafioso, a capo, and later the consigliere of the Lucchese crime family. He also has the distinction of being Henry Hill’s teacher/father figure on the mobster way of life. A fictional character played by actor Paul Sorvino based on Vario was featured in the film Goodfellas..
*Paulie may have moved slow, but that's only because Paulie didn't have to move for anyone...*
Sho'Nuff, The Showgun of Harlem he had a great system for the garlic.
He definitely moved with Henrys wife.
Sho'Nuff, The Showgun of Harlem do you think Paulie moved slow with Karen
Sho'Nuff, The Showgun of Harlem Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.
Sho'Nuff, The Showgun of Harlem haha hell yea great scene.
Paulie looks like the guy in a white van your parents warned you not to take candy from
That's funny
Underrated comment
Speaking of that, I was thinking; why the hell would Karen Hill want to screw Paul Vario? Henry was no prize, but he was sure a lot better looking than that fat, bald sweaty slob!
Henry hill sold he's friends out
ehhh...not really.
"Don't put too many onions in the sauce."
"Don't put too much onions in the sauce."
"I didn't put too many onions in the sauce, I put three small onions and two cans..two big cans"
We're not running white castle here.
Gotta add da pork! That's da flavor!
@@lionelhutz5137 3 onions? That’s too many onions
Paulie didn't move slow when Karen called him for some loving.
He was straightening Karen out, straightening Karen out.
She needed income
@@G_Moreno89 Henry provided her
Haha brilliant 🇬🇧🇬🇧🤝
I heard Paulie was smashing her every chance he had. 😻
I absolutely loved Paul Sorvino as Paul Vario. He really looked like a boss with authority.
Best character
Sorvino is also a much better looking man lol
Ironic that a mobster so concerned with privacy and keeping a low profile would end up as a key character in the definitive book and movie about the New York mob.
Lol if he somehow had a glimpse into the future he would’ve wacked Jimmy, Henry and Tommy in a heartbeat LOL
@@themack1363 so true!
Thats far from the definitive book on the NY mob, movie yeah I agree 👍
He came up during a time when, the Italian Mafia wasn't quite yet "glorified" as it was by the 1970's. Big Paul was born in the early-mid 1900's, so it makes sense that, a whole lot wasn't found, said or spoken ABOUT him....however, what people did know about him, was that he was an important figure to the mafia.
Like he had a choice
Paul Sorvino sure did him justice, didn't he? The real Paulie looked like someone that stalked women in a van. Maybe he just took bad pictures. Because the guy was powerful as hell.
+Robert Thomas Paul Sorvino is the best!
+Robert Thomas they guy who played him in goodfellows was intimidating and cool
LMFAO
Robert Thomas wonen care about power above all
He really does
I can see why Hill's wife would go for a handsome guy like Vario. Quite the catch. Nice going Karen...
he was a "big" man ...
He was ugly. They all were in real life. Even in the movie Ray and Bob were the only good looking ones.
Women tend to go for social status rather than looks.
His power made him attractive. Lookup Phyllis McGuire and Sam Giancana...who also banged Marilyn Monroe.
I bet Paulie didn't pull out.
Paul Vario sure is a mysterious crime figure. Not much is known about him. One thing is for sure though. He never had the makings of a varsity athlete.
Nack Jicholson lol
Nack Jicholson lol
Nack Jicholson what the fuck did I just say about you saying that
Nack Jicholson
Thanks for the laugh!!!!
Love reading the comments!!!!
Nack Jicholson Lmfao 😂😂😂
I'll just go get the papers, get the papers.
Controversial Christian haha
If gonna get the papers get the papers!!!!
@Bill Turner yes very tru but in tv and movies concerning these individuals there is an element of truth that they expand on the rest is indeed fake indeed fake
Jimmy2X
Shouldn't your name be Jimmy two times?
In a documentary on Hill, an FBI agent stated that Vario literally exuded a vibe of menace; more than any mobster he'd ever met.
I saw that video, and the picture they showed of him was just chilling.
@@wrestleguy24Sounds interesting, any chance you could send me a link?
Let’s all leave together. That way we don’t go staggering out one at a time like a bunch of hobos.
Always did love that line.
They made Karen out to be like a Love struck Insecure victim, when she wasn't nothing but a typical Jazabel .
Total skank.
Jason Allen Care run.......a skank from the tank
The Alpha Matt Such an ignorant comment. You’re assuming almost all of the women on earth are sluts when you haven’t even met a fraction of the women alive. You know what they say when you assume.
CelticsNation most women today are, it’s both their nature and how this society conditions them
@@CelticsNation Oh he's just an incel who even got turned down by his right hand.
"Oh? You tried to fuck the girl I'm having an affair with who is married to my friend and coworker that I like more than my own kids and known for several decades? I'm going to turn you into our enemies because you fucked up!"
Exactly
AndrewsA-F-B21 he tried to rape her. Big fuckin difference
Scorsese's Vario in Goodfellas was a big teddy bear, grandpa, not the psycho, that Vario really was
They all looked like creepy trash because they all were creepy trash.
@@LibertyFascism My brother's best friend was almost beaten to death with a baseball bat by one of them bastards!! He was on the phone in a bar, and mentioned a name of someone that owed this piece of shit $400. This was in Brooklyn. The wiseguy was acquitted of course!! The slime was whacked less than a year later
@@skeltonknaggs1600 gotta say sounds like a different breed of folks in the north east. Down here in the south east life is slow but people are just as quick to kill you and dump your body somewhere deep in the woods.
@@namedoesntmatter9330 So What!! It is pretty understandable why people are different in different environments.. Raised in Brooklyn, I knew when to be stone quiet, which was my nature anyway. The only difference between the South and the North sounds to me, is where the body is dumped
@@TheBadElf Scorsese is a chicken shit. Goodfellas was a theatrical story. Listen to the FBI Supervisor, talk about Jimmy Burke, then look how Scorsese portrayed Burke, the difference is night and day..
The guy who hated phones. See. Paulie didn't want anybody to hear what he was saying, and he didn't want anyone else to hear what he was being told.
Paulie never had to move fast for anybody
Joshua Morrris Don Vito didn't use phones either.
Trey Stephens he's a fictional character....
+Joshua Morris> But Vincent Gigante was real. Vario's family, The Luccheses and Gigante's family, The Genoveses were allies against John Gotti's Gambinos after the hit on Big Paulie Castellano. They may have communicated by smoke signals!
Paulie was smart.
OLD mafiosos were calm, rational and weren't flashy and arrogant.
Henry Hill had a long life considering the psychopaths he was associated with.
I find it difficult to believe that Henry claims to have not killed anyone as I don't think Paul Vario, Tommy De Simone and Jimmy Burke would have had Henry so closely associated with them and witnessing their various murders without Henry being required to do a killing in their presence.
But then Henry was was smarter than many give him credit for to omit certain facts to the FBI while ratting out his buddies but giving them enough to get in the witness protection program.
Hill was a low-level mob associate, his only responsibility was to earn. You think Morrie ever whacked anybody?
Dennis McClain hes a pathological liar
Deep Kumar B S u don’t want to mention anything u weren’t already convicted for
Henry was full of shit about a lot of things. Guy was a complete mess for the rest of his life too.
Hill wasn't as close to these guys as the movie described. He was more of a follower. Hill made his bones with the 1967 air France robbery, which netted somewhere in the neighborhood of $500,000
when I learned that the real paulie was sleeping with hill's wife it almost ruined the film's character for me. that's just low down and dishonorable.
Not really, goes back to Rome and the Emporer. If the Emperor came to your house and had eyes for your Wife he could sleep with her if he wanted to. Logic is this, Caesar was above all to all! Loyalty had to be earned for Political Favors and this is one of many ways. Ambitious Men would do anything to get power plus he was Caesar, he gets what he wants..Simple!
If they had any honor they wouldn't be racketeers in the first place, though.
Remember Henry had women he was sleeping with as well even set them up with apartments ect. Nobody in that life is innocent.
Pine oil heaven bro Issa movie the real guys were all degenerates lol
thecharter1 I think it applies to all that looking at another members wife or being sexually involved with another members wife is forbidden.
Its kind of funny how these guys are treated like lovable rogues,yet all their thievery probably drove prices for goods and services through the roof
Allot of it was based on credit card fraud before they built jfk airport
Be a little more worried they're were violent psychopaths.
Yes people think they were great men but I bet if those kind of people were on the receiving end of the mob they wouldn't think they were so great, any person with a shread of morality knows these people were scum of the earth.
They weren't treated as lovable rogues irl, I never heard anyone other than a mob associates speak highly of the man. And all the businesses he shook down in his part of town sure as hell didn't view him in that light.
I can't believe how complete and well done these posts are in less than 10 minutes! bravo .
Thanks my friend.
you should also do some cartel videos
Michael Franzese, who was named in the film; Goodfellas, even though he was from a different crew, stated that Henry Hill was a lost soul.
Hill was an alcoholic, a degenerate gambler and a drug addict. Goodfellas made him look good.
Goodfellas holds a special place in my heart because of the presence and relationship between rob de Niro and Ray. They portrayed as much realism as they could to create a masterpiece. Typically America wanted to show these guys actually better than they was. Karen needed money, so a low profile affair took place, Henry couldn’t argue especially cheating himself, he also needed the financial backing and when he didn’t get enough from his own crew he got hooked on making profit from drugs. In the end relying on other people got him in trouble he made a mistake and had no choice but to rat. If you listen closely it took 2 years for the main boss to be sentenced more than enough time to kill Henry. Henry had brought too much attention on himself and the crew he knew the only way was to rat having lost the trust and respect of Jimmy Burke. I really wish we knew a little more, had more images and details but Henry has brought us most of this info which we wouldn’t have had if he hadn’t have been a snitch. They’d have killed him and not battered an eye that’s how it was. Yes Karen was a slag but she did what she had to do and was also angry with Henry. Incredible insight still. Goodfellas was based on facts but much of which was improvised. Robert De Niro and Ray played they’re part so well it was brilliant.
And he wasn't .
Some know who Ray was suppose to be portraying but in reality, it was definitely not Henry lol
Goodfellas was very inaccurate on many accounts actually...
@@R0YDEME0 - Really? HOW? Hill himself said that it was like 90% accurate. It followed the book to a Tee.
@@matthewschwartz6607 Henry must have not been an honest man.
Very good review of Paul Vario. Some internet stories have old timers saying that Henry Hill was disrespected by Vario and Tommy DeSimonne and now I know the story. Hollywood took a brilliant nice guy actor Ray Liotta, good looking guy, to play Henry as this “cool dude” but he was not at all that way. He was even as good looking as Ray Liotta. Henry was an ordI Ray looking guy who had great survival instincts and knew when his time was over in the mob. He also knew Paulie Vario and Tommy DeSimmone were not his friends.
The real Vario is a lot less likeable looking than Sorvino
My 6 year old daughter was obsessed with the movie “The Greatest Show” with Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum….I showed her and actual picture of Barnum and she cried.
Thanks for the insight. Goodfellas is one of my favorite movies from my favorite director!
This channel is truly a gem.
RIP PAUL SORVINO
3:05 "You're a real jerk Henry....I gotta toughen you up."
You wasted 7 aprons on this guy
*Paulie didn't waste any rubbers with Karen.*
Having mob guys picketing the FBI is one of the silliest things I've ever seen.
I find it fascinating that no one suggested that Karen might have been coerced into the affair with Paulie. He was her husband's boss. With a snap of his fingers Henry would have been a dead man. The threat, implicit or explicit would always exist. Karen might have been terrified of saying no. Alternatively, Paulie being the boss could be extremely generous with gifts or other favors and what could Henry do? He's not going to confront Paulie, now is he?
Very well said
Nah she was just a skank at the moment
While possible there's no sign this was the case and women really are attracted to tall high status figures which Paulie certainly was. Consider tony soprano; he wasn't a looker but banged every chick he wanted because of his status (the real life cast mentioned finding him attractive sue to how well he played Tony)
@@jaylenlenear7850 yup. Just like man wanna bang thick chicks regardless or their skin color or fairness, many woman like big guy with authority and money. Also, we dont know what is inside their affair, husband probably apporove. Swingers are wild at those time.
Or maybe, just maybe. She just wanted to have sex with someone else other than her husband.
He was played beautifully by Paul Sorvino.
Until he died in 2022.
This dude was scary looking. In his mugshot he couldn't care less
None of these documentaries tell you much you won't already know by watching Goodfellas and reading Wiseguys.
If I had gone from rags to riches!!!........
Get the papers get the papers
I kinda want the other way
Very well narrated. Am fascinated by this subject. I met Henry once at a pub i was working at. Very interesting man.
You are an amazing narrator! Great pacing, as well as solid visuals. You deserve much more recognition sir.
Never knew Paulie was promoted to a consigliere. In Goodfellas he comes across as a harmless nice jolly fat guy who loves frying sausages while his associates take liberties with him. Brilliant film though.
Offered immunity but refused to cooperate. My man
I can, literally, come up with interesting mob topics all day. Enough to fill 10 whole seasons of Mobsters on the Bio channel. So forgive me for being overbearing. You have an awesome channel. I'm a mafia buff, so I really do appreciate what you've contributed to the CZcams universe. They should pay you for what you've put together.
Alfredo, I agree:)
He jumped out the tree. And come at me with a chain saw. I have the right to defend myself paul
Oh man. That sopranos episode made me laugh for ages.
Ever since I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster...
Don't get marry
What do you think most politicians are
"As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster." Fixed it for everybody's sake. Can't stand wrong quotes. No excuse when there's the ole Google thing ova dare
Ever since I remember I always wanted to get the papers, get the papers
dont get pinched
Great informative and interesting posting . Thank you !!
Love all these videos
You wana see helicopters?Ill show you helicopters😂🤣
LMAO uncle Pauly was smashing hills wife.😂
Banging her every chance he got
I thought he was over the Hill 😂
For a guy 'off the radar' and so careful he spent a lot of his adult life in clink!
That is where most wind up in the end.
He has been doing crimes since age of 11, got 7 months back then. 4 years at the end of his life, and 2 more some time before that. I think, if a gangster could choose, they would all take 7 years prison considering he became 73 😂 The guy made millions
Cost of doing business, I guess.
In Goodfellas, they made him look as if he was the boss of a family.
Well if you're an associate, the capo is the highest member you'll ever meet. You're seeing things from Henry's POV
@@owenb8636 exception was donny brasco because the bonnanos not only thought he was a good earner but every family is different with how they introduce
@@anthonymartinez3084 in the Bonanno movie they imply that they were involved with the JFK assassination. Don't know how accurate that is but it doesn't seem too far fetched
No they didnt. He was clearly a capo
@@paullayfield
RE: "in the Bonanno movie they imply that they were involved with the JFK assassination."
Frank Sheeran, in his book I Heard You Paint Houses, from which the movie The Irishman was made, claims that the mob was involved with the JFK assassination. In addition, he claims to have personally killed Jimmy Hoffa and "Crazy Joe" Gallo.
I have read some of the stories about this "Paulie" character. It just blows my mind that this guy may have been one of the top criminals in the world and the FBI didn't even have his name because he was so quiet. He hated telephones, talked as little as possible, and would do things like make sure he had a gun and was ALWAYS facing a window in a public place.
What's the importance of facing a window
@Jaylen Lenear To see who was coming and going. Always having his back watched.
@@johnlewisbrooks ah ok. I feel like that's make him easier to kill too tho
If Henry Hill hadn't brought him out in the open, we probably would've never known about this guy...Thankfully, not all of them were in the spotlight like Capone, Anastasia, Columbo, or Gotti...
+Crazcompart True! No one would ever had known about him outside of his neighborhood.
250 lbs more like 350
lisa stunda at least
tons.
Exactly. I was like 250 (Fogetaboutit)
@@jasonallen3678 250 on a good day! Btw, I loved his trendy hat in the 60s.
70lbs = 5 stones
140Ibs = 10 stones.
280lbs = 20 stones.
350lbs = 25 stones.
People would routinely put a dipstick into Paul Vario's hair to check his oil. Vario didn't sweat, he just excreted grease.
Like George McFly
They don't call them grease balls for nothing.
That's racist.
i didn't know kevin from the office made youtube videos
Alexander David exactly what I was thinking!!
I’m laughing so hard at this comment. I cannot stop. My wife is asking what’s so funny and I can’t stop laughing.
I laughed when I read that
In between making chilli.
Dam!!! The movie didn't portray that he was banging hills wife,, and Tommy wanted some of that action, while hill was in prison, that's messed up,
@Rabbi Coomershekel McPornstien Ohhhhhh!
Hill didn’t want to look like a punk.
That lightly touch on it
So much for loyalty in the mob,banging hills wife.these lot are all lowlifes
@@bobjohn1234 I think it’s because hill wasn’t a made guy and he wasn’t Italian 🤷🏻♂️ but who knows
Great videos. Thanks
Excellent vid-thank you!
+pranksterguy1 You're welcome my friend.
7 months for truancy...jesus times have changed..
I am shocked that the 'system' didn't look out for these kids more ...7 to 10 months ....and you know the older kids beat you and other horrible acts from staff ....damn ....when they get out they become animals ....and if paulie had a better structure he could've been a guy who owned a few car dealerships and made a good living had a good family made wise investments but No he had to be a criminal ! sad
They are no better now they are actually worse
Being a rich criminal is better than a poor honest man.
Squre not better than a middle class honest man
It depends on how rich.
Paulie died a true gangster.
+Enoc Martinez That he did. Thanks for watching.
Frank Dileo as Tuddy, was Michael Jackson's manager at one time. He had the idea for the hyperbaric chamber photo.
I was related to him, met him when I was just a little kid
Definitely Goodfellas Paul and Jimmy the gentleman when I was 13 years old I used to hang out with Jimmy Jr
I hope someday Bloodletters starts posting videos again. Amazing content!
Vinny?
Don't put too many onions in the sauce.
Just 3 small onions
This is no good
I didn't put too many onions, Paul
Great documentary!
Wow my mouth is dropping.... Learn something new every day
Katherine Ball Thanks!
Now I gotta turn my back on you....
ohhh you popped ya cherry
Toof
You "broke" your cherry
Excellent piece 👌
Great video . True facts without glamourizing the subjects .
Really cool how barely nothing is known about him compared to other mafia members.
Giuseppe "The Clutch Hand" Morello, was an originating member and leader of the mafia when it was still referred to as "The Black Hand". When you talk about this guy, your talking about the birth of the Mafia in New York. In fact, his family is the Borgata that ended up evolving into the Genovese Crime Family. For obvious reasons, a doc about this guy would be INCREDIBLE... And Ground Breaking
Mobster - "Goodfella" Paul Vario... fantastic video...Bloodletters & Badmen
These videos you are doing are great
Great job you do on these videos my friend,
Very interesting to find out about these
lesser known but equally deadly mobsters
and a welcome change from endless Gotti
biopics, Keep em coming.
Thanks Gordon. I shall.
Love watching these video's. Please keep them coming.
He died in a federal prison in my hometown of Fort Worth, literally in my part of town. @8:45
Excellent video!
Great story thanks B&B!
“What we know about him comes from two sources... his record and the movie goodfellas.” Lol
Thank you!!!!
You're welcome Mochan!
Do you think Paulie" moved slow" with Karen.. .
He got slower and slower untill he ceased moving.
Slow & easy
Bullshit he knocked the bottom out of it 😘
He went slowly up the Hill😂
@@deltaskelta9346 lol
@Blood Letters Thank you good sir for the time and effort my friend. Your channel honestly keeps me out of trouble during this time in my life has been more than eventful.I enjoy watching your videos you're on point and know your stuff. Thank you sir!
+Joshua Morrris You're welcome.
Mr Gribbs was the mobster Pauly was taking about when he was mentioning “Gribs” who he said was doing life just for talking to a guy when he was telling Henry to stop dealing drugs,
I had no idea that he had an affair with Karen Hill! Wow... I'm not sure why I'm shocked, but I am! Thanks for the video!
There are subtle hints in Goodfellas actually, for example: when Paul and Jimmy go to see Henry (now staying with his lover) in order to convince him to go back to Karen, Paul says that he will have a word with Karen himself to pacify things as he "knows how to talk to her".
One wonders how and when the two got that close? 😂
These guys are loyal to no one but themselves and their greed. Could give 2 craps about “their crew” or corrupting young kids to grow up and be violent criminals. In the end their best friends are the one who kills them
Well done....very interesting info about Karen Hill.....
Thanks for watching.
She would up in Worcester MA in the late 90s. Working in a strip club called Pudgys as a cook
John Gotti didn't kill Tommy himself. According to many high ranking members and associates it's said that John probably never actually killed anyone. He always had someone do it for him.
Gotta didn’t kill Tommy. Al d arco testified who killed him. It was babe vario and another soldier whose name I’ve forgotten
Love the very end and the words...
Loved Goodfellas since I saw it back in 1990. Never knew of Paulie hooking up with Karen. IFirst I hear of this.
You kinda got hints. Like when Paulie told Henry to go back home to Karen, he said I’ll talk to her, I know how to talk to her, especially her.
Also Karen told Henry while in Prison, Paulie won’t take my calls, Henry said Forget about Paulie, he’s on probation
who's gonna be the one to tell him how daft that hat looks?!
You just did:)
Hoho! I got busted at the age of eleven like Vario. I always remember the cop's car door not working correctly. Only now, I'm happy to say I steered clear of that kind of business and am doing fine with an honest job, a beautiful woman, and kid. Anyway, you're documentary style of delivery really knocks me out. Take care.
Thank you my friend. By the way, good call in life choice. Thanks for watching and Merry Christmas t you and your family.
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Nope. I's all in your silly lmfao head, Justin MC. Lots of guys have gotten into trouble in their youth--nothing to do with mafia--and steered clear of trouble after getting caught. Where I lived (Newfoundland) as a kid, there was no mafia.
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P.S. What got me into the back seat of a police car in '72 was because of a B&E and arson. And that's not bullshit. Not bad for an eleven year old. Ha ha! But the law forced me to meet face to face with the owner. He was a sweet, gentle old man who forgave me and asked me to help clean up the mess. (I lit up his garage.) What a lesson I learned. He is always in my mind. As for the mob, I did know some of them when I later moved to the main land in the 80's. My older brother became friends with one of them. I met the guy.. I didn't like him at all. A JACK OFF!!
As I see it the three best gangsters I think so far (got a lot more to learn before proper judgement) were Carlo Gambino, Lucky Luciano and this guy. They all had a different tactic. Carlo hid in the open, Lucky shared his profits with high profile and Paulie was under the radar.
Great info ..thank you
8:56 They say that about every monster passed the age of 50 by 1990. I’ve even heard it for John the Eagle Riggi.
Paulie in the Goodfellas movie, I like. But the real one is scary and disgusting.
Fun fact: The one who played Paul Vario in Goodfellas also played one of the grandpas on the show Grounded for life He was the moms dad💯
Channel is great!
And people get mad at Henry for ratting on everyone... Meanwhile Paul got Tommy killed...
I'd love to see some pictures of him when he was a kid, teenager and young adult.
Great video
Pauly might have moved slow, but that’s only because Pauly didn’t have to move for anyone.
Great video. Paulie was a low-key powerful capo of a huge crew. He was truly a wiseguy, a "goodfella" Aside from your Italian pronunciation, your documentaries are great man, but I've already told you that. For the record it's pronounced Nicholas Pile-G like you're pronouncing the letter G.
Nino Gaggi shut up
Nino Gaggi