Early Life
D'Amico's parents were born in the village of Vietri sul Mare in the Campania region of Italy. D'Amico is not related to Bonanno crime family soldier Joseph D'Amico. D'Amico graduated from New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn.
D'Amico received the nickname "Nose" because of his "Romanesque nose", one mob informant told the courts during his testimony. At the Gotti trial, mobster Michael DiLeonardo said, " had his nose fixed, a (rhinoplasty). He had a big, distorted nose at one time", D'Amico was said to have been upset with prosecutors for using the nickname. Former FBI Special Agent Bruce Muow said that D'Amico was "...always broke, constantly in debt, a degenerate. John Gotti loved him because... Jackie was a fellow gambler who placed all his bets for him".
Until he went to prison, D'Amico lived in an Upper East Side, Manhattan high rise apartment and frequented the Italian eatery Fresco in that neighborhood.
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