Alphonse Gangitano: Wannabe Godfather | Australian Crime Stories | TCC

Alphonse John Gangitano was an Australian criminal from Melbourne, Victoria. Nicknamed the "Black Prince of Lygon Street", Gangitano was the face of an underground organisation known as the Carlton Crew. He was also an associate of alleged organised crime bosses Tom Domican and John Kizon
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[@viklovelife390]

Just love how chopper reacts to everything, honest, truthful and doesn’t care how he doesn’t let the truth get in the way of a good yarn 😂

[@adamibrahim7706]

Chopper is a dog

[@lillianlilo7447]

Chopper left the normal hard working citizen alone at least. He kept them out of the street/gang shit.

[@AstrixCloud]

@@adamibrahim7706And you're a fckwitt with a keyboard lmao. "You couldn't knock the fluff off a cappuccino!'- Chopper.

[@eaglesdefense812]

A good yarn...I like that.

[@alexf9381]

@@lillianlilo7447 Yeah like the judge that he attacked? That he shoved a shotgun to the head of? Come on. People just regurgitate things he says without doing research. He held an innocent random judge hostage using a deadly weapon and even if he didn't plan to kill him he still placed the innocent man in serious harms way. He absolutely targeted non criminals to get his way.

[@danniieem2840]

That acting at the start made cringe

[@johannas.l.brushane2518]

But is it bad acting? From the accounts of people who met him it looks as if he presented himself as such? 😳

[@commentscrusader3842]

Living for it, personally

[@endoeone3337]

Wouldn't know what moneys for

[@donbrashsux]

I love the acting

[@DJTrickiMusic]

@@donbrashsux you must love low budget free to air TV movies too

[@dubsentertainment3724]

Everyone being interviewed: he was a psychopath and a plastic gangster Chopper: he was weak as piss 😂😂😂😂😂

[@cocksure8430]

The copper laughing about Alfonse getting 'whacked' !!😂🤣😂

[@joshuaflavel4975]

Hahah 'Alphonse was weak as piss" doesn't get any more aussie than that statement 🤣

[@kalebcotter197]

🤣🤣🤣

[@kalebind]

​@@kalebcotter197 hi kaleb

[@DCFunBud]

He made his bones by killing a woman?! He threatens a woman and steals her car?! Just what kind of reputation is he trying to make? Then his goons pummel innocent women in public? In the U.S. Gangitano and his crew would have been wiped out for making the Mafia look bad.

[@revalesq]

Don't call anyone out DC. Unless you're Bara Brava!!! Este noche tenemos ganar!

[@peterj5751]

I think chopper summed him up well.

[@jessiesmith5577]

I Agee, Especially with the 5 families in New York

[@johannas.l.brushane2518]

The danish slangword for a bloke who is a pimp who leech at women happens to be "Alfons"...and not referred to in a way as a person but a thing... like "He's an Alfons".

[@bradhodges8833]

Settle down sweetheart. You'll be ok hero 😃

[@joseph317]

Chopper sitting on the toilet getting bashed wipes his ass and fights, never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn....

[@Gweedzperth]

Chopper is hilarious lol

[@Progenitor1979]

He wiped his bum

[@meredithisme3752]

Best thing that happened that underworld war it took the trash out 👏👏

[@spaea2062]

Alphonse reminds me of that one kid in school who will punch you and quickly run off and hide behind the teacher.

[@oldmate9969]

that basically sums the bloke up actually haha

[@paulgerard4503]

No fan of Alphonse but he didn’t do that at school

[@warwickmoore804]

Or the man who killed a snitch... he didn't even go to court

[@warwickmoore804]

Or the man who wears Brioni ...

[@adamibrahim7706]

Dunno why chopper the dog is even talking

[@kalebcotter197]

Why he a dog?

[@foxx2990]

The road of vice always leads to an early death…virtue is the path of the wise.

[@jamesphillips9400]

Life imitating art , came from a nice family . Should have just worked hard like his parents !

[@kalebind]

SHOULD HAVE ?

[@jamesphillips9400]

@@kalebind did he have a job mate ?

[@kalebind]

@@jamesphillips9400 he was not a street kid with the actual proper meaning of this particular term. THANKS for "mate" have a smooth pleasant and cosy Sunday evening mate😍

[@jamesphillips9400]

That’s my point in the original statement , he came from a nice family

[@kalebind]

@@jamesphillips9400 as it appears to me that should have indeed been the case

[@charliecharliecharliecharl8554]

They say rats are cannibals and will eat each other

[@TheSimba1960]

Got to know Gangitano in the Underbelly series - one of the most compelling I have watched.

[@quillan7743]

No victor pierce

[@user-mt4ku7jw1y]

Chopper the legend x

[@queenashantee1957]

THE GODFATHER BEING HUMMED BY 'CHOPPER', THAT WAS HILLY. HAHAHA

[@charliecharliecharliecharl8554]

He was he'll bent on being a chalk outline on the footpath ,funny analogy

[@mikelovelock2666]

The bloody maaaafia lol good chopper

[@thetreekeeper143]

"from standover to standup" 🤣

[@QBee240]

‘I’m Alphonse Gangitano and I run this town’……..🥴🤣⚰️

[@vanillagorrilla]

Love how they use chopper as a witness 🫣it’s pretty much 💯 B.S

[@mckdogdrums3543]

Typical it took multiple guys to take down the boxer. Also found the "no chilli" thing really authentic to the character playing him lol.

[@marktroiano1533]

As an Italian American who grew up with and around gangsters, this clown doesn't have a CLUE what the Italian American Mafia is all about. That's different from the actual organizations in Italy. Anyone is free game when it comes to violence. In NYC, if you did this to a woman, you'd probably get whacked because it's completely disrespectful to women in a PUBLIC way and the government would VERY MUCH get involved when random threats to the public are made. He's bad for business. All around.

[@kalebind]

It depends what you refer to as business

[@AstrixCloud]

Could have saved 45 minutes and summed his criminal career in 60 seconds lmao.

[@ReesZzz]

The acting. It’s just so bad.

[@1Clearwords]

It suits the subject to a tee. 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@adamibrahim7706]

He was a gangster... i dont know why this whole "wannabe" bs is going around

[@lillianlilo7447]

Yeah..The Gambino family were always killing random women, beating them up and stealing their cars 🙄 AG was just a common street thug. Who had to flee to Italy when he knew Chopper was after him. Real gangster right there, my fucking arse!

[@QBee240]

This ‘Chopper’ is funny

[@OceanBloke]

Yeah one of the only criminals australia tolerated and admires. He only targeted other underworld figures, like a bullys bully. A trashman. Plus he embellishes every story, so u cant tell if he actually commited his murders, or if he was willing to do the time without the crime. He claimed to have whacked 21 people, but was only convicted for 3 and sentenced for 1 i think. It got so bad he wouod confess and the cops would just laugh and not take him seriously lol. Chopler is either the smartest criminal or the most clout chasing criminal in the history of crime hahahaha.

[@stevenwebb3634]

He really likes saying his own name

[@quillan7743]

I agree makes home and away look Shakespearean

[@k9gabriela893]

The bad acting is kinda insufferable

[@og4593]

Quite the contrary. I want to see a feature film.

[@donbrashsux]

Oh well the worms enjoyed Al Fonzes company 😂

[@peterbaini8752]

Back in the Gangitano days... God bless his soul - Lou

[@meghancass3187]

In America we call these guys Al Colognes. Because they were so much perfume you can smell 'em half way down the block

[@mojohal879]

This guy was just a wannabe New York italian mobster

[@LouisDubai]

He was about that life

[@reginald1106]

This man would’ve died in any major US inner city within 3 months acting like that

[@GinoHawkins]

He was good in There’s Something about Raymond.

[@laurencehawkins6613]

Pmsl at the acting 😂

[@DJTrickiMusic]

Let me self incriminate myself on a day to day basis. MY name is Alphonse Gangitano.

[@pronavsandhu]

jesus thats too much of over acting

[@luanzeka9846]

When I was 18 yrs old I saw a guy KO Alphonse down activities D Division, Craig R*******n Hit him flush for using the term "You Dogs" When 1 man steals from you, You say, : whoever is responsible is a f******n Dog in order to try & get that 2 get a response. Not Alphonse, he said, which 1 of you " DOGs" Bad move 8 - 10 guys were about 2 address that, only Craig got to him 1st, The screws didn't even respond. He was a plastic gangster. & way out his element in Prison.

[@sonottiny]

He wasn't a fake gangster, he actually was a real gangster and for these so called experts to say otherwise is ridiculous, he walked the walk and talked the talk

[@chalkandcheese1868]

Get your hand off it kid

[@adamibrahim7706]

I agree

[@adamibrahim7706]

@@chalkandcheese1868 shut up u flop. Ur a bunny

[@pietrosavastano4641]

Lol real. "He was involved in drugs, extortion gambling. He was a gangster in his own head" WHAT?!? Lol. He may have been all ego and a lunatic but that doesn't mean he wasn't a gangster

[@franciscouch8378]

Take his d*ck out your mouth.

[@RC30019]

7:32 😂😂😂

[@theronin365]

The first test he come against, he literally ran away and left the country for...no real gangster would do that.

[@Lettusfarm]

Exactly. Fake wanna be gangster. Only fucked with citizens and ran when real gangsters came looking for him.

[@robertpidgeon9808]

Good result.

[@tonymontana897]

Alphonse's parents must have been extremely disappointed in him. What a plastic gangster he was. Totally out of his league. All for what ? Now he's rotting in the ground.

[@lillianlilo7447]

He'd be completely rotted away by now. Just some bones left

[@OceanBloke]

They should have hit him more. And made him eat the chili.

[@user-mt4ku7jw1y]

Dying in your pants haha, sum gangster lol

[@bazglsgw1208]

Tells u everything u need to know bout Chopper in that he had him sussed from the start n Gangitano knew it n stayed away 😂😂

[@lachlanrossi4721]

Bruh, the guy they got to play Alphonse as a kid is a dead ringer for Ryan Corr - who played Michel 'Doc' Kanaan in Underbelly: The golden Mile

[@OceanBloke]

Not even lol

[@bradhodges8833]

Can't lie the part where he used to go to nightclubs looking for off duty police officers and bashing them is pretty funny 😂

[@paulgerard4503]

Why?

[@foxx2990]

Weird.

[@katieb8511]

I don’t think so. He’s disgusting

[@Wolfmann9]

@@paulgerard4503 😅😅

[@Wolfmann9]

@@foxx2990 😅😅

[@Wayne-cj7fn]

If the Coppers had actually done their jobs instead of being in business with him and the rest of the supposed 'crew'. They we're all girls and got what they deserved, a few coppers should have been in the list too.

[@sheek3222]

You're a girl.

[@Micheal-Knight-]

There was a property developer in Leeds with a similar problem. There will always be a supply of uneducated working class men to give these guys the ego boost they need.

[@kicikocani1]

i watched underbelly this guy was my favourite but the other actor not this guy vincent .... with italian surname it was i remember

[@JoTheSnoop]

Vince Colosimo.

[@kicikocani1]

@@JoTheSnoop yes thats the guy was briliant

[@joanneginever1890]

@@JoTheSnoop Vince Colosimo, legend. Best of the best. 👍👏👏👏💞

[@Enochthegreat71]

Uncle chop chop was the man lol. Rip.

[@joannegutteridge3843]

He likes to talk about himself in the third person .

[@scottghost1]

Australia’s answer to Ronnie Pickering

[@paulgerard4503]

Good one. Reminded me to watch it again.

[@bazglsgw1208]

Who???

[@joegill3707]

Pity Australian Crime Stories glorifies the violence i their programs. There is no need to portray these acts so violently. The flash back effect on family, witnesses and first responders is real. The episode of the body in the suitcase was pathetically over violent. Be better than that Mark Doran

[@jeffreywernick9121]

21:04 LMAOOO

[@warwickmoore804]

I like it how the "munster" got killed

[@AriyaHomes]

“I’m Alphonse Gangitano” 😂

[@kalebind]

BE HI ND HIS B.A.C.K.

[@kalebind]

Have u ever encountered a perfectly white Swan within a smelly swamp??

[@reefk8876]

The Don Alfanso 🤌🏽

[@tinag9138]

🤭🤭

[@Micheal-Knight-]

Why would you turn your back on a lunatic with a gun?

[@auzzieredneck1850]

Died in his reg Grundy’s 😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂

[@craigstrauss8342]

He’s lucky he never met me….. the KoSR King of Sydney Road😮

[@pootube2024]

Ok Rambo🤡

[@gainzcoach]

😂🤡🤡🤡

[@mrbig7343]

After a boxing fight I had . Was invited to cafe Trevi in Lygon Street about 26 years ago. Alfonso and his crew were there alfons was led outside by four men approximately 6 ft tall in long trench coats looking like detectives. out of curiosity I decided to have a look what's happening alfons bashed these blokes and walked back in like nothing happened.

[@adamibrahim7706]

Old school fighter... the days where the og fighters were.. mr big... who did u fight for. Im a fight fan

[@mrbig7343]

@@adamibrahim7706 Beau gerring and Spencer fr Footscray youth club

[@goodgame3374]

That's a tall tale

[@mrbig7343]

@@goodgame3374 real stories are better than fiction

[@paulgerard4503]

Four blokes, really?

[@mikegleed5842]

Chopper😂

[@eaglesdefense812]

When a partner in crime shows up at your place unannounced, when you're alone and asks what the hell you're doing in your undies, best put on your favorite suit, splash some Dolce & Gabbana aftershave and load your H&K. RIP CHOPPER

[@michalsejna1469]

Who lets bloke like this walking around?

[@chalkandcheese1868]

This little tool would have lasted about 5 minutes in Sydney.

[@returntonature8773]

Gangsters never heard of sniper rifles to take out the trash?

[@alexanderthegreat1270]

If you actually want a better understanding of Gangitano, watch the first episode of Underbelly. The actor is way better

[@johnmichaels1413]

💯

[@desertmandan123]

Have to laugh at Read, posing with a pistols....lol....who wanted to be a gangster more than Alphonse himself....I wonder.

[@jmc6327]

Chopper is funny, but not a thing out of his mouth is true.

[@Enochthegreat71]

Neville Bartos.

[@robinbanks610]

And where are ya now Alphonse? Where ya should be😉

[@Micheal-Knight-]

Killing a woman made his bones.....?

[@Bigballs017]

Never was called the black prince.

[@adamibrahim7706]

He did not run from chopper He was getting shit done in Australia while he was away

[@trevormaloney4006]

He didn't leave his family with no money amiela is well looked after

[@bigboyblue7181]

Bugs Moran was Alphonse Capone's arch enemy.

[@TheWelwyn21]

Silly sausage typical aussie

[@dasmuss6174]

Silly sausage 😂🇦🇺🍻

[@TheWelwyn21]

@@coldthrills5150 did you think that up all by yourself, its brilliant Do you want to be mates

[@thepanel2935]

Talk about making shit choices for yourself all throughout your (very short) life...

[@kade6518]

It's very crazy how the police the authority and the justice system dose nothing to stop these thugs. innocent people are at risk. And Criminals are like I can do what ever I want they will never stop me

[@australiafirst520]

No Legal Source of Income, and, No one bats an eyelid.

[@adamibrahim7706]

Shut up Karen

[@kalebcotter197]

Corrupt..they all win

[@1legend517]

That criminal lifestyle catches up with them in the end, and they all end up dead eventually.

[@geoffreybennett8912]

Gangitanou was a wanna be,pure and simple, cause if he was as good as he thought he was, he wouldn't be dead, would he?The greatest criminal minds are the ones you hear, but never see,not big heads who think they KNOW how it works and almost bring down the whole show because they think that they are something that they are not. They did the guy a favour, cause it might not have just been him who got necked,but his family as well. He should have saw the situation that eventuated coming if he was as good as he thought he was. He is/was a plastic gangster because he believed his own hype,and was arrogant enough to think that it would protect him or make him the 'Boss of Bosses',but you only get there if you are a good earner and you show that you have a brain as well, not just a pair of fists and a penchant for violence that is more trouble than it is worth.

[@1legend517]

They all end up dead in the end. That criminal lifestyle catches up with them eventually.

[@Pochi11]

🙄🙄🙄😏😏😏 This is all commentary dissecting his personality on whether he's a true or a wannabe gangster... 😱😭

[@MANC2311]

Fantasist.

[@ricks_kicks928]

What horrible acting

[@alexgreen3662]

I mean the acting is poor but good story

[@tonybutcher4762]

Bezzina talks about Gangitano being a King hit merchant and assault merchant right after that thug copper Murphy dribbles on, rules for thee, not me.

[@Isee238]

Australias trying to be Americans Hilarious

[@franciscouch8378]

Hahahah the start of this is pathetic

[@crippa8130]

Alonse was a real gangster. This series is all rubbish.

[@Benny-yl8hu]

You know him personally?

[@adamibrahim7706]

I agree

[@lillianlilo7447]

The experts are saying no he's not. I'll go with the experts opinion.

[@johnconnor7131]

Why do you love him?did you have a relationship with him?did you do scissors with him?

[@pootube2024]

He was foolish!

[@bradvandongen2845]

Chopper was mad that Alphonse stole his tampons. That's why he left for Italia. ⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️

[@jasonludwig215]

Fuckin Chopper 😂👏👏 gotta love em

[@jase4270]

He be in the afterlife waiting for Nevil bartoss.

[@chloeleedow7250]

🤣 🤣 There was a brilliant part of an interview where he nailed explaining the modern crim. Something along the lines of "they'll steal ya TV and shit in sink" or something like that too funny lmao

[@jasonludwig215]

@@chloeleedow7250 🤣🤣 you aren't going to believe me but my celly in bucks county jail used to take a shit in the sink of the houses he burglarized you can look it up his name is Paul derenzo look up bucks county Pennsylvania it was years ago around the early to mid 2000's

[@dasmuss6174]

@@chloeleedow7250 there’s the one where he describes Carl Williams as a ‘fat ass, wobbly bottomed boy’ 😂🇦🇺🍻

[@guido6603]

Criminals are disgusting.

[@jordandouvartzidis1745]

Hahaha tough guy who picks on woman and runs overseas from chopper. Todays gangster

[@jamescash1972]

This guy is a boy scout compared to the real Alphonse, Gabriel Capone. 1

[@MrKaidalen]

My father and Mother (Italian and South American) They knew Alphonse very well when they worked in a Italian Restaurant, They were a very close friends. The only fake Gangster this video has is Chopper Reed. lol

[@cocksure8430]

My a Father and a my Mother, they a come from Italia, and a south America-a....god a bless them..' They a knew a this a Alfonse man, when they had a tha eye-talian-o resturant-eh. They were a very close a friends-ah...they knew him-a- very well-ah. True story-ah.

[@cocksure8430]

The only fake-a- gansta is dees man, Mark Brandon Chopper fukin reed-a....