Frank DeSimone
1909 to Aug. 4, 1967.
DeSimone, an attorney, became the Los Angeles Mafia boss after the 1957 death of Jack Dragna. His reign marks the beginning of a long decline for the Family later called "the Mickey Mouse Mafia."

One of DeSimone's earliest acts as crime boss was attendance at the ill-fated 1957 Mafia convention in Apalachin, NY. L.A. mafioso Simone Scozzari, with whom DeSimone is often confused, was also in attendance at that convention.

DeSimone died of natural causes on Aug. 4, 1967, leaving the Los Angeles Family to Nicolo Licata.

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