Giorgio Modafferi

Giorgio Modafferi (born 1939) is the son of Bruno Modafferi and successor to the Modafferi 'ndrina.

Early Life
Giorgio was educated at St Mary's private school in Sydney. A good student who surrounded himself with a large group of friends and formed his own small criminal clan, bashing up those who gave him a hard time and running general bully tactics. In his senior years at high school he was caned by his headmaster for possession of pornographic images. He and a group of friends later ambushed the headmaster and belted him to an inch of his life.

During his time at school Giorgio experimented in homosexuality with a fellow class mate. Disappointed with himself he first visited a brothel at the age of 15 hoping that heterosexual sex would counter his homosexual feelings of the time. Despite this, he secretly continued to have sexual relations with three class mates throughout his time at school.

Giorgio was exposed to the crime world from an early age and was well adapted to exploring new business ventures while riding in the wake of his fathers success and protection. His first criminal exploits were in his after school hours where he made extra money for himself selling stolen cigarettes he had skimmed from his father's warehouse. He pulled extra muscle by using a young gangster wannabe named Thomas Morello. They would later go onto form a close friendship and Giorgio would suggest for Morello to be welcomed into the Modafferi clan as a solider.

Member of the Padrino
Though he never mentioned it to anyone, Bruno saw Giorgio as his favourite son and knew that through his education and personality he had the potential to succeed him as head of the clan. From a young age Bruno had been grooming Giorgio and when he was still in his early twenties made him a member of the Padrino. In Calabrian mafia structure the Padrino was made of up to five senior and highly respected members of the clan (in the case of the Modafferi 'ndrina the Padrino was made of three - Giorgio, Marius and Ralph Fiorini)

Personality
Giorgio's soft personality makes him a likeable person to many crime figures such as Jackie Carpenter, Margaret Mills and Salvatore Miot. But his softness is certainly not weakness and he can employ a deathly command of violence when required, such as following his father's orders to wipe out much of the Miot clan and those who were plotting against him in the mid 1970s. Despite this he believes in pushing himself to the limit and often is heard telling his brother to "live a little". Giorgio's attitude of fearlessness of the law first lead him to prison in the late 1960s and then it would eventually become his ultimate downfall.