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The title of this article is a nickname.

"With that monster gone, I can finally make this a respectable business!"
―Mamma Scarponi[src]

Mamma Scarponi was a baker from Little Italy, New York City.

Biography[]

A baker of Italian descent, she inherited Trapani's Bakery from the Stracci crime family after it was burnt down and later rebuilt following its sale by the Barzini crime family to the Straccis, which was done in order to distance Don Emilio Barzini from the murder of Johnny Trapani.

Scarponi had no real allegiance to the Straccis, particularly after the man in charge of her protection, Leon Grossi, refused to help get rid of a drug dealer who lurked in her back alley. When Aldo Trapani, son of Johnny, performed this task for her, she gave her protection money to him and felt happier she could run her business without customers being scared of the drug dealer, she carried on running the bakery.

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