- Born
- Died
- Birth nameVincenzo Pianetti
- Nickname
- Caesar
- Joe Agosto was born on July 17, 1927 in Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. He died on August 29, 1983 in Merriam, Kansas, USA.
- Nicholas Pileggi's book Casino details Agosto's role as the Kansas City mob's "Entertainment Director" at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada in the 1970s. Martin Scorsese directed the major motion picture Casino (1995) starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Sharon Stone.
- In an attempt from being deported in 1967, he used the birth certificate of a businessman named Joseph Agosto, who was born in Ohio in 1921 and died in Italy in 1951 to "prove" his citizenship. He claimed that he was sent to Italy after his illegitimate birth and adopted by a couple named Pianetti. The government proved that he had been, in fact, born to the Pianettis in Italy, and came to America as a young man.
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