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00:00Paramount's Tulsa King is about banished New York mobster Dwight the General Manfredi

00:16Sylvester Stallone, an entirely fictional character whose life is loosely based on the

00:20Mafia's dark history.

00:22Since it began in 2022, Tulsa King has quickly become one of the most popular and best shows

00:27on Paramount+.

00:28The show has been so popular that Tulsa King season 3 was confirmed even before season

00:332 had finished being released.

00:35Part of the reason for its popularity is its novel premise, of a New York gangster taking

00:39control of an Oklahoma city, but it actually is more rooted in reality than it seems.

00:44There have been plenty of gangster movies that were inspired by true stories, from The

00:48Godfather to Goodfellas.

00:50Most gangster stories are rather loosely based on reality, and it turns out that Tulsa King

00:54is no different.

00:55While there hasn't actually been a New York Mafia carpo who traveled to and took over

00:59the city of Tulsa, the idea of Dwight comes from real-life mobster history.

01:03Tulsa King's real-life inspirations evoke one of the bloodiest eras and gang wars in

01:07the history of the Sicilian Mafia.

01:10Tulsa King isn't a true story, but the show is based on a real mob family.

01:14Dwight's banishment seems to be inspired by the Inzirillo crime family.

01:18Much of Tulsa King is predicated on the idea of Dwight being a representative of the old

01:22ways of the Mafia.

01:23But more traditional view of the Mafia and how his silence should have been rewarded

01:27put him in contention with Chicky Invanizzi, the soon-to-be-don of the New York mob.

01:31Chicky's contention surrounding Dwight ultimately led to him banishing the carpo to Tulsa to

01:35start a new operation out west.

01:38Dwight is not based on a single person, but his banishment to Tulsa is highly reminiscent

01:42of what happened to the Inzirillo crime family of Palermo, Italy.

01:46The Inzirillo crime family explained.

01:48The Inzirillos were banished from Sicily in the 1980s.

01:51Chicky Invanizzi, Dominic Lombardozzi, holding a gun to a beaten Jerry Izzo, Joseph Riccobine,

01:57s head in Tulsa King season 2 episode 1.

02:00The Inzirillo crime family has been described as the Mafia aristocracy of Palermo, but they

02:04are mostly known for their fall from grace, via La Repubblica.

02:08In the 1980s, while the Gambino crime family ruled New York, the city of Palermo was ruled

02:13by the ruthless Salvatore Renar, also known as the Boss of Bosses and the Beast.

02:18Authorities deemed Renar responsible for thousands of murders.

02:21In a successful bid to take leadership of the Sicilian Mafia, Salvatore Renar and the

02:26Corleonesi faction of the Mafia nearly exterminated the Inzirillo family and their other rivals

02:30throughout the 1970s and early 1980s.Salvatore Renar allowed the Inzirillos to escape his

02:36takeover of the Sicilian underworld after the Inzirillos' American allies, including

02:40the Gambinos, intervened on the family's behalf.

02:44While he let them live, Renar also demanded they leave and never set foot on Sicilian

02:48soil ever again.

02:49The banished Inzirillos lived their lives in exile in New York, mostly content with

02:53staying under the radar and the protection of the powerful New York Mafia, at least,

02:57until the Gambino crime family, the real-life inspiration behind Goodfellas, fell from power

03:02in the mid-80s.More recently, the Inzirillos have made a new play for power in both New

03:07York and Sicily.

03:08In the 2000s, some surviving Inzirillos and Gambinos, most notably Tommaso and Francesco

03:14Inzirillo, returned to Palermo, via CBS News.

03:17In 2019, however, 15 members of the Inzirillo and Gambino families were arrested as part

03:23of a joint raid carried out simultaneously by American and Italian law enforcement.

03:28It's unknown what the Inzirillo family has done since then, how many members remain active,

03:32or how involved they are with either the New York or Italian mafias.

03:36How much of the Inzirillo crime family has been adapted for Tulsa King?

03:40Tulsa King is only loosely inspired by the Inzirillo crime family.

03:44Though Dwight's story and the premise of Tulsa King are reminiscent of the history

03:47of the Inzirillo crime family, the show has also deviated from it significantly.

03:52The biggest part of the story that Tulsa King adapted was the idea of banishment.

03:56Dwight's banishment to Tulsa, however, was little more than an ineffective move by Chicky,

04:01and Dwight was very easily able to become a veritable kingpin himself.

04:05In contrast, the Inzirillo family was banished as a form of mercy after the head of the family

04:09was murdered, and they never rose to the same prominence in New York that Dwight has in

04:13Oklahoma Additionally, the Inzirillo's banishment came with a very literal threat – a return

04:18to Sicily while Salvatore Renard was still in power would mean certain death.

04:22Dwight, on the other hand, returned to New York several times in Tulsa King season 1,

04:27though Chicky did eventually try to have Dwight killed.

04:30Chicky is also only loosely based on Renard, as he has yet to become a real threat to anybody

04:34but his own father.

04:36In short, Tulsa King only follows the history of the Inzirillo family in premise alone,

04:40and has since become a completely fictitious story However, there is a chance that history

04:44could play a bigger role in future episodes of Tulsa King.

04:48After the ending of Tulsa King season 2, episode 4, it seems that there could be a shake-up

04:52of power within the New York Mafia families, which would be similar to Renard's takeover

04:57of Sicily.

04:58It's even possible that Dwight could follow in the Inzirillo family's footsteps and eventually

05:02return to New York, trying to take the Invernesses down.

05:05Whatever future fictional storylines are in store for Tulsa King, however, there will

05:09always be factual inspiration for the show.

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