Assunta Maresca News Today

IT should be a blissful time in life - but for children raised in the mafia, childhood is more likely to mean dealing drugs and collecting protection

Teenagers Hernesto, Alfredo, Gennaro and Manu* from Le Vele di Scampia in Naples are members of what the authorities call a baby gang.

In Barbie Latza Nadeau’s “The Godmother,” we meet the women who have run the mob, and the new generation poised to take over.

Little Doll was the daughter of a top member of the Camorra, and the crime she committed became a global sensation.

Little Doll was the daughter of a top member of the Camorra, and the crime she committed became a global sensation.

After her 1959 trial for shooting dead her husband’s killer, the ‘Diva of Crime’ became an instant celebrity as she was packed off to prison

Naples authorities refuse a public send-off for the convicted murderer known as Lady Camorra

A former adolescent beauty queen who shot and killed her husband's killer before becoming the boss of the Camorra mafia clan has died at the age of 86. Pupetta, or "Little Doll" in English, was a feared crime leader who died at her home in Castellamare di Stabia, near Pompeii, after an illness.  When Assunta Maresca shot and killed Antonio Esposito (her husband's murderer), she was 18 years old and six months pregnant.

Maresca, known as Pupetta, or ‘Little Doll’, found fame when she shot dead her husband’s killer in Naples at the age of 18

Assunta Maresca, who was known as Pupetta, meaning little doll, was 18 years old and six months pregnant when she gunned down Antonio Esposito, a witness at her own wedding.