# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-valachi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:31:18.030Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-valachi"
name: "Joseph Valachi"
slug: "joseph-valachi"
description: "Joseph Michael Valachi was an American mobster in the Genovese crime family who was the first member of the Italian-American Mafia to acknowledge its existence publicly in 1963. He is credited with the popularization of the term Cosa Nostra."
tagline: "American mobster (1904–1971)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mafioso_Joseph_Valachi_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1903-09-22"
deathDate: "1971-04-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.6879361914257228
  historical:           19.03925733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "約瑟夫·瓦拉奇"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joe Valachi"
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    title: "Joe Valachi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Valachi"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump