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| | |image = PavanoFamily-GTAIV-members.jpg | ||
| game = IV | |game = IV | ||
| type = Italian-American Mafia | |locations = [[Alderney City]]<br>[[Little Italy]] | ||
| | |leader = [[Mary Valvona's Husband|Don Pavano]] <small>(until [[1990]])</small> <br /> [[Mary Valvona]] <small>(1990 onwards)</small> | ||
| cars = | |type = Italian-American Mafia family | ||
|enemies = [[Pegorino Family]] | |||
| weapons = [[Knife]], [[Pistol]], [[Uzi]] | |affiliations = [[North Holland Hustlers]] | ||
| fronts = [[Auto Eroticar]] | |cars = [[Sentinel XS]]<br>[[PMP 600|Sports PMP 600]]<br>[[Coquette]]<br>[[Turismo]]<br>[[Sultan]] | ||
| members = [[ | |weapons = [[Knife]], [[Pistol]], [[SMG]], [[Uzi]] and [[Combat Shotgun]] | ||
|businesses = Heroin Distribution<br>Loan Sharking<br>Extortion<br>Rackets<br>Labour Unions<br>Burglary<br>Prostitution | |||
The '''Pavano Family''' is | |fronts = [[Auto Eroticar]] | ||
|members = [[Mary Valvona's Husband|Don Pavano]] <br> [[Mary Valvona]]<br>[[Arthur Zepulla]]<br>[[Joe Corrola]]<br>[[Mario Venturella]]<br>[[Vito Menotti]] | |||
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The '''Pavano Family''', also called the ''Pavano Crime Syndicate'', is the second-most powerful of the Cosa Nostra [[The Commission|Commission]] families of [[Liberty City in GTA IV|Liberty City]] and is primarily based in [[Algonquin]]. The family is said to be controlled by 60 year old [[Mary Valvona]], along with her 40-year-old ex-lover [[Arthur Zepulla]] who is the family's official consigliere. Mary Valvona is a suspect in the murder of her former husband and boss [[Mary Valvona's Husband|Don Pavano]] in the 1990s. [[Joe Corrola]] is a low level member and former lover of Mary, he is in charge of the family's heroin distribution ring. [[Mario Venturella]] is the latest lover of Maria and is an [[Algonquin]] based cat-burglar. [[Vito Menotti|Vito Menotti]], a former Pavano hitman turned states against them in 2008. | |||
==Pavano vs Pegorino War== | |||
[[Jimmy Pegorino]] looked at the Pavanos as a way of getting a seat in the Commission, so he organized a [[Pegorino's Pride|sit down]] with them at an old refinery, where he took [[Niko Bellic]] along to watch over the meet with a sniper rifle after he was recommended to Pegorino by [[Phil Bell]]. The sit down was a set up and the Pavanos attempted to whack Pegorino, who was saved by Niko. The Pavanos later suffered for their actions when Pegorino hired Bellic to [[Payback (GTA IV)|wipe out]] one of their crews that was meeting at [[Auto Eroticar]] in Alderney. | |||
==Members== | |||
*[[Mary Valvona's Husband|Don Pavano]] <small> (Don, until [[1990]])</small> | |||
*[[Mary Valvona]] - <small>(leader, 1990 onwards)</small> | |||
*[[Arthur Zepulla]] - <small>(consigliere)</small> | |||
*[[Vito Menotti]] - <small>(high-ranking hitman, 1990s - [[2008]])</small> | |||
*[[Joe Corrola ]] - <small>(drug trade, heroin distribution)</small> | |||
*[[Mario Venturella]] - <small>(Mary's 21-year-old lover, a cat-burglar based in [[Algonquin]])</small> | |||
==Government Informants== | |||
*[[Vito Menotti|Vito "Dog Meat" Menotti]] - a top-ranking hitman for the Pavanos since the 1990s, who is now turning states against them. | |||
==Notes== | |||
*The Pavano family is similar to an Italian [[wp:Camorra|Camorra]] organization, which once had a female boss named [[wp:Rosetta Cutolo|Rosetta Cutolo]]. | |||
*Mary Valvona could be based on [[Rockstar Games]]' interpretation of [[wp:Cathy Moriarty-Gentile|Cathy Moriarty-Gentile]]'s character ''Patti LoPresti'' from the film [[wp: Analyze That|Analyze That]], in which she was a female Mafia Boss in New York City. No Italian-American crime families in [[wp:New York City|New York City]] or the United States ever had any female members. Females have only stayed as associates or "Comare" (name for a mafia mistress). However, the wife or sister of a previous don taking over the family is much more common in Sicily-based mafia families. | |||
*The Pavano family could also be loosely based on the [[wp:Genovese crime family|Genovese crime family]]. The Pavanos are operating in some of the same areas as the Genoveses; in Manhattan (Algonquin) neighborhoods of [[wp:Harlem|Harlem]] ([[North Holland]]), and Central Park ([[Middle Park]]). The family also maintains a strong presence in New Jersey (Alderney). The Pavano family is ranked as the second-most powerful family in GTA IV, while the Genovese crime family is ranked as America's most powerful mafia family. In the [[Liberty Tree]] the Pavanos are rival enemies of the Gambettis ([[wp:Gambino crime family|Gambino family]]), similar to the real ''Genovese-Gambino'' rivalry. | |||
== Trivia == | == Trivia == | ||
* | *The family's main/favorite car is probably the [[Sultan]] because many appear in [[Pegorino's Pride]]. | ||
*In the mission [[Payback (GTA IV)|Payback]], some goons fighting Niko are ''actually'' [[Irish American Killers|Irish Mob]]. | |||
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