Godfather of Harlem season 4: cast, plot and everything we know about the historical drama (2024)

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How historically accurate is Godfather of Harlem? ›

Godfather of Harlem, as viewers likely realize, is based in reality, and tells the story of several real-life gangsters and historical figures of the 1960s. While some artistic license has been taken in the retelling of events many of the characters really existed, and Battle is one of them.

Brancato said: "Because of the business circ*mstances surrounding the show, and when it was initially greenlit for a third season, which was never in doubt it just took a while on the business side, Nigél had other projects he was pursuing and the dates didn't work out and so we were reluctantly forced to [recast].

His name is Luis Guzmán. He's fantastic. What or who is a "duji" Duji is slang for heroin.

Vincent D'Onofrio's Italian American mobster has been a menacing figure since the show began in 2019. However, Chin was largely absent from the newest season. He was sent to prison after his daughter Stella (Lucy Fry) called the Feds on him at the end of the second season.

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Vincent D'Onofrio : Returning as Vincent "Chin" Gigante, D'Onofrio's character is one of Bumpy's main adversaries, representing the Italian Mafia's interests in Harlem. Ilfenesh Hadera : Hadera will reprise her role as Mayme Johnson, Bumpy's wife, who supports her husband while dealing with her own challenges.

He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx. At the time of his funeral, Bumpy Johnson's net worth was estimated to be about $50 million – though there are some suggestions that it might have been as high as $100 million.

Rita Gigante

Yolanda Gigante

Carmella Esposito

Roseanne Gigante

Lucia Esposito

Teddy Greene is an aspiring musician who ends up falling in love with Vincent Gigante's daughter, Stella. His mother goes to Bumpy Johnson in the hopes he will separate the couple, due to the danger their relationship poses to Teddy's life.

Stella is the daughter of mafia boss Vincent Gigante.

What happened to Bumpy Johnson's daughter Ruthie? ›

What happened to Ruthie and Elease Johnson, Bumpy Johnson's daughters? Ruthie and Elease Johnson are the daughters of the famous Harlem gangster Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson. They were mainly in the spotlight because of their notorious father, but sadly, they both died in 2006.

Dubbed "The Oddfather" and "The Enigma in the Bathrobe" by the media, Gigante often wandered the streets of Greenwich Village in his bathrobe and slippers, mumbling incoherently to himself. He was indicted on federal racketeering charges in 1990, but was determined to be mentally unfit to stand trial.

In 1968, Frank Lucas is the right-hand man of Harlem mob boss Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson. When Johnson dies of a heart attack, Frank enters the heroin trade, buying directly from producers in Thailand and smuggling it into the U.S. through returning Vietnam War servicemen.

Godfather of Harlem tells the fictionalised story of infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson, "who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles.

After that, Lucas became Bumpy's right-hand man and a student of the game, spending years under his learning tree as he was taught everything there was to know about being a mob boss, until 1968 when Bumpy Johnson passed away, thus paving the way for Frank Lucas to take over. That is the story according to Frank.