On Aug. 4, 1955, Assunta Maresca — 20 years old and six months pregnant — took a .38 Smith & Wesson revolver and, in broad daylight on a busy avenue in Naples, pumped its contents into the ...

Assunta “Pupetta” Maresca, who has died aged 86, was a one-time beauty queen and gangster’s moll who became known as “Lady Camorra” – a reference to the powerful Neapolitan mafia.

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.

EX-beauty queen Assunta Maresca, who became the first female boss of the dreaded Camorra gang after killing her rival, has died at the age of 86. The feared mob boss, dubbed Pupetta, or “Litt… ...

Assunta “Pupetta” Maresca was devastated when her beloved groom, Pasqualone Simonetti, was shot dead just months after their wedding. Pupetta, then just 18, later avenged him, according to ...

Assunta Maresca, known as 'Lady Camorra,' was six months pregnant in 1955 when she carried out the vendetta slaying, part of a bloody turf war among crime clan bosses in Italy.

THE GODMOTHER: Murder, Vengeance, and the Bloody Struggle of Mafia Women, by Barbie Latza Nadeau How could Pasquale Simonetti — Pasqualone to his pals — not fall hard for Assunta Maresca?

Born into an Italian crime family, Assunta “Pupetta” Maresca would become one of the Italian Mafia’s most fearsome criminals.

Ex-beauty queen Assunta Maresca, who became the first female boss of the dreaded Camorra gang after killing her rival, has died at the age of 86, The Sun reported.

Assunta “Pupetta” Maresca, who has died aged 86, was a one-time beauty queen and gangster’s moll who became known as “Lady Camorra” – a reference to the powerful Neapolitan mafia.

ROME (AP) — Assunta “Pupetta” Maresca, the widow of a Naples organized crime boss who was convicted of gunning down her husband’s presumed killer for revenge, later challenged a powerful ...