'The Godmother' tells an incredible story of the secret life of the female don who, after avenging her husband's killing, embarked on a decades-long run as a crime lord. Read a dramatic excerpt from the book below ⬇️
By the time she died, she had spoken to me a dozen times over several years for a book project I had started out hoping would be about good women, but ultimately realized bad women are far more interesting. Pupetta caught my eye because of the audacity of her crimes — avenging the hit on her mobster husband at the age of 18 in the third trimester of pregnancy. Another two murder charges, and countless other accusations would be lodged against her throughout her long life.
Still, glamorizing women like Pupetta — bad women who in many ways are the seams that reinforce the fabric of Italy’s extensive organized crime problem — is wrong, of course. But understanding how women in the criminal circuit have been able to achieve a level of empowerment and dubious success, which women in Italy’s legal community still struggle for, is part of the history of Italy.
The second time we met, she seemed angry that I had come back without going through her and told me in no uncertain terms not to return. Her mother, a woman I had by then spent enough time with to have seen as willfully strong-minded, seemed almost afraid of her. She kept her head down when her daughter spoke. She looked away when I tried to make eye contact.
DETAILS OF HOW the mafia works behind the headlines are garnered from turncoat confessions. But coercing a confession out of someone whose life and identity are so intertwined with the criminal underworld is daunting. Mafia women have been brainwashed since birth, and convincing them that there is an alternative way to live takes a special kind of persuasion. Crippling poverty leads to idle hands.
Piera went to the police the next day and turned herself in with Nicolò’s sister Rita, and the two went on to work with anti-mafia judge Paolo Borsellino as state’s witnesses until he was killed by a car bomb in 1992. Rita committed suicide a week later, and Piera and her then-four-year-old went into hiding under Italy’s witness-protection program until 2018, when she surfaced to run for parliament for the Five Star Movement.
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