On Dec. 16, 1985, mobster Paul Castellano was assassinated, along with his bodyguard Thomas Bilotti, outside of Sparks Steak House in New York City. Take a look back at his life of crime.

Gravano said he planned the incident on Dec. 16, 1985, that left Castellano dead outside Sparks Steak House, paving the way for John Gotti to become the new Gambino family crime boss.

Thirty years ago Wednesday, shots rang out in front of Sparks Steak House in Midtown, leaving then-Gambino crime boss Paul Castellano dead in the gutter, and signaling the rise to power of John Got… ...

The body of mafia crime boss Paul Castellano lies on a stretcher outside a New York restaurant after he and his bodyguards were gunned down in this Dec. 16, 1985, file photo.

In Staten Island’s tony Todt Hill, this 33,000-square-foot mansion known locally as “the White House” formerly belonged to a late Gambino crime family boss.

NEW YORK — When Paul Castellano stepped out of his Town Car outside Sparks Steakhouse in midtown on Dec. 16, 1985—smack in the middle of rush hour commuters and Christmas shoppers—he was met ...

The murder of reputed Gambino crime family boss Frank Cali on Wednesday recalled New York City’s last major mob hit nearly 35 years ago: the iconic assassination of Paul Castellano outside a ...

Referred to as “Big Paul,” Castellano presided over the Gambino crime family, considered to be NYC’s largest and most powerful forces in organized crime, during the 1970s and ‘80s.

The Staten Island mansion that “Big Paul” Castellano commissioned decades ago has returned for sale for a higher, but still record-breaking, price.