Licciardi was the inspiration for the chain-smoking female mob boss in the TV series "Gomorrah," according to journalist Roberto Saviano, who wrote the book about the Naples mafia on which it was ...

Licciardi was the inspiration for the chain-smoking female mob boss in the TV series "Gomorrah", according to journalist Roberto Saviano, who wrote the book about the Naples mafia on which it was ...

the 40-year-old boss of the Gargano Mafia in the southern Italian region of Puglia, was caught Thursday outside a luxury restaurant in Bastia, Corsica, where he was dining with a female companion.

An Italian court on Wednesday sentenced Camorra boss Maria Licciardi, one of the few women to lead a mafia clan, to almost 13 years in prison, media reports said. Licciardi, 71, known as "the ...