Popular Culture
- Thomas Gambino is portrayed by Tony Sirico in the 1998 made-for-television movie Witness to the Mob about Gravano and John Gotti.
- It is believed that Gambino is the inspiration for the fictional mobster Little Carmine Lupertazzi in the HBO series The Sopranos. The similarity being that both men are the sons of mob bosses but show little violence, mean streak or brutality needed to succeed their fathers as boss.
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