Pat DiCicco

Pasquale "Pat" DiCicco was married to actress Thelma Todd, heiress/designer Gloria Vanderbilt and starlet Mary Jo Tarola. Albert R. Broccoli of James Bond fame is his first cousin. DiCicco is also known as the "Astoria Broccoli King's" son.

He was frequently described as an "agent," but was also a bootlegger and pimp and best known as New York Mob boss Charles “Lucky” Luciano’s right-hand man in Hollywood.

When his ex-wife Thelma Todd was found dead in her car at her home in Pacific Palisades, California, it was alleged that through DiCicco Thelma became involved with other gangsters, who were moving in on Hollywood, lured by the vast wealth being generated by the movie industry. It is said that the gangsters wanted Thelma’s Sidewalk Cafe, and that Thelma stood up to them while the rest of Hollywood was caving in to their demands.

In 1937, DiCicco was one of the suspects when the Three Stooge’s mentor, Ted Healy, died from injuries sustained in a bar fight with actor Wallace Beery and DiCicco’s cousin, Albert Broccoli, in the parking lot of the Trocacdero nightclub on the Sunset Strip. Healy had an affair with Thelma Todd after her divorce from DiCicco.