# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-d-pistone
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:44:50.522Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-d-pistone"
name: "Joseph D. Pistone"
slug: "joseph-d-pistone"
description: "Joseph Dominick Pistone is an American former FBI special agent who worked undercover as Donnie Brasco between September 1976 and July 1981, as part of an infiltration primarily into the Bonanno crime family under the tutelage of Anthony Mirra and later Dominick Napolitano, and to a lesser extent the Colombo crime family, two of the Five Families of the Mafia in New York City. Pistone was an FBI agent for 17 years, from 1969 until he resigned in 1986. The evidence collected by Pistone led to over 200 indictments and over 100 convictions of Mafia members, and some responsible for his infiltration were also killed by other mobsters."
tagline: "American FBI agent"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JosephPistone.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-09-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           59.39
  momentum:             12.0049539011972
  historical:           19.888312
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0685587"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump