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Robert "DiB" DiBernardo (31 May 1937 – 5 June 1986) was a member of the Gambino crime family and one of John Gotti's lieutenants. He was the most influential and important mobster in the porn industry during the 1970s and 1980s, and he was responsible for the flooding of Times Square with adult video stores and sex shops. In 1986, while being investigated for distributing child pornography, he was murdered by Sammy Gravano.
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Robert DiBernardo was born in Hewlett, Long Island, New York on 31 May 1937, and he became a made man in the Gambino crime family without committing a single murder. During the late 1960s, he bought Star Distributors, a softcore pornography business, and he sold hardcore of all types and media to adult industry businesses around Times Square. The proliferation of such businesses during the 1970s was a symbol of New York City's decline, and hardcore child pornography was openly sold at adult video stores. DiBernardo commissioned the production of much of the Golden Age of Porn's hardcore films made in New York, intimidating rivals out of busin
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Robert DiBernardo
American mobster
Robert "DiB" DiBernardo (May 31, 1937 – June 5, 1986) was an American caporegime in the Gambino crime family, who was reputed to control much of the commercial pornography in the US. During the 1984 US presidential election, publicity about DiBernardo having rented business premises from the husband of Geraldine Ferraro embroiled her in damaging media innuendo about organized crime.
By some accounts, DiBernardo was the most dominant figure behind the US adult industry[clarification needed] in his era. He was a relatively capable businessman who did not have a reputation for involvement in violence, but his Mafia links deterred potential competitors and warded off other criminals. He became immensely influential in the US pornography business, and an associate of Reuben Sturman. Whether DiBernardo's relationship with Sturman and others was based on extortion or mutual advantage was never established. DiBernardo was seen as a phenomenal money maker, secretive, and a lone operator (unlike most Mafia members of his status, he
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