Mafia Prince: Inside America's Most Violent Crime Family (25 page)

Philip’s parents, Pasquale and Annunziata (Nancy), on their wedding day in 1952 with Philip’s uncle, Nick Scarfo.

Philip as a baby with his godmother and his Uncle Nick.

A nine-year-old Philip (front row, third from left) and members of the 1962 St. Mike’s basketball team.

The “gangster” Nicodemo “Little Nicky” Scarfo on the streets of South Philadelphia in the late 50’s.

The Scarfo compound located at 26-28 North Georgia Avenue in the Ducktown section of Atlantic City, as it appeared in the 80’s.

Philip with his mother, Nancy, and his grandfather, Philip Scarfo, in the early 70’s.

Nicky Scarfo with his mother Catherine inside their home on Georgia Avenue in the early 80’s.

Philip visiting mob enforcer Nicholas “Nick the Blade” Virgilio at New Jersey’s Bayside State Prison in Leesburg in the early 70’s.

Philip with his cousin Nicky Scarfo Jr. at Casablanca South in Fort Lauderdale in 1987.

Philip with his cousin Christopher Scarfo, his uncle’s oldest son, at a family wedding in 1986.

Philip and Nicky Jr. behind the wheel of
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as “Little Nicky” and “Nick the Blade” relax on the back of the boat off the coast of Atlantic City in 1986.

Nicky Scarfo, the jailed-for-life former boss of the Philadelphia/Atlantic City mob, behind bars at USP Marion in the early 90’s.