The name Moretti may be derived from the given name Mauro, the Italian form of Maurus, which means "dark-skinned." It used to refer to someone coming from Mauritania in northern Africa. Alternatively, it may be derived from the word "morro" meaning 'rock.'
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Willie Moretti (1894- 1951) was an Italian-American gangster who, along with fellow mafiosi Lucky Luciano, Albert Anastasia, Vito Genovese, Al Capone, Joe Adonis, and Frank Costello was working under Joe "The Boss" Masseria during the Castellammarese War.
From 1933 to 1951, Willie Moretti, the supposed Mafia boss of New Jersey, was the muscle behind the Genovese family founders Frank Costello, Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky. During the 1940's, he (in association with Joe Adonis & Abner Zwillman) ran lucrative gambling dens in New Jersey and Upstate New York from his Monmouth County home.
Along with other members of the Costello gang, Moretti was called to appear at the Kefauver hearings; however, of all the gangsters who showed up to testify, Moretti was the only one who cooperated with the committee. Moretti's cohorts repeatedly pleaded the Fifth Amendment, whereas he told jokes, talked candidly, and generally played it up for the cameras. In doing so, he was violating the Mafia code of silence, known as omertà.
In 1951, members of the National Crime Syndicate met to discuss Willie Moretti's loose tongue. While Frank Costello and Joe Adonis were strongly opposed to it, Vito Genovese and Albert Anastasia demanded Moretti be killed. On October 4, 1951, the latter two took matters into their own hands. Three of Anastasia's hitmen bought him lunch, then shot him repeatedly in the chest. He was 57 years old.
Frank Sinatra was also allegedly personally linked to Willie Moretti. His first wife Nancy Barbato was a cousin of one of Moretti's senior henchmen and he sang at his daughter's wedding in 1948. According to testimony from Moretti, Sinatra received help from him in arranging performances in return for kick-backs. It is also rumored that Moretti got Sinatra out of his contract with Tommy Dorsey by threatening to kill Dorsey if he did not let Frank go.
In September 1951 Moretti had also become acquainted with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis while they were performing at Ben Marden's Riviera nightclub in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where Moretti and Longy Zwillman kept an eye on things for Marden in the club's cardroom. Martin and Lewis did a command performance at the wedding of Moretti's daughter and were supposed to have lunch with him on the day of his death. Lewis had learned that morning he had the mumps and they had forgotten about their lunch engagement with Moretti. While trying to reach him to apologize and explain, they learned of his lunch-time murder from the television news.
ALESSANDRO MORETTI (1922-1998) was an expert glass-maker in the classical Venetian style He was one of a small group of artisans who brought their talent and knowledge to the United States
Emiliano Moretti (born 1981 i) is an Italian football player.,
Enrico Moretti is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches a graduate class in Labor Economics and an undergraduate class in Econometrics
Fabrizio Moretti (born 1980 is the drummer in the American rock band The Strokes.
Filomena Moretti (born 1973) is an Italian classical guitarist. She has won numerous awards, toured Italy and other European countries and has interpreted composers like Antonio Vivaldi, Francisco Tárrega, Joaquín Rodrigo and others for the Phoenix and Stradivarius labels.
Italian-born scholar Franco Moretti has written four pathbreaking books, Signs Taken for Wonders (1983), Modern Epic (1995), Atlas of the European Novel, 1800-1900 (1998), and Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History (2005). His books have been translated into fifteen languages. Moretti's most recent effort is a multi-volume encyclopedia of the novel, featuring articles by noted experts on the genre..
Giovanni (Nanni) Moretti (born 1953) is an Italian film director, producer and actor. He is best known for his films Caro diario (Dear Diary) and La stanza del figlio (The Son's Room), the latter of which won the 2001 Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Lisa Mary Moretti (born 1961) is an American professional wrestler. She is best known for her appearances with the World Wrestling Federation and World Wrestling Entertainment between 1999 and 2005 under the ring name Ivory.
Marino Moretti (1885-1979) Italian poet and prose writer known for his elegant verse. He was a leader of the crepuscolarismo movement in the early 20th century
Mario Moretti (born 1946 ) is a founding member of the 2nd Red Brigades, who kidnapped and killed Aldo Moro on May 9, 1978. Moretti was the only person to talk to Moro during the 54 days of imprisonment, and was responsible for killing Moro. He was sentenced to six life sentences for his crime, but, after serving 15 years in jail, he was paroled and freed in 1998.
Robert Moretti (1936- 1984) was a Democratic California politician. He served in the California State Assembly from 1965 until 1974.
Tobias Moretti (born Tobias Loeb in 1959) is an Austrian actor. Moretti studied composition at the Vienna University of Music and Applied Arts, then went to Munich to train for the stage at the renowned Otto-Falckenberg Schule. Moretti appeared in the TV series Kommissar Rex from 1993 to 1997 which gained him worldwide recognition
MOMO is a design company (based in Italy) that makes accessories and parts for automobiles. MOMO are the initials for Moretti-Monza.
Founded by amateur racer Gianpiero Moretti, the company sponsored the Ferrari 333 SP sports prototype car, after Ferrari had retired from that racing category 20 years earlier. Using a Ferrari F1 engine, the car itself was built by Michelotto to World Sports Car regulations
Their range includes steering wheels, gear shift knobs. MOMO air-bagged steering wheels have become standard accessories on some regional Subaru and Mitsubishi performance cars.
The name Moretti may be derived from the given name Mauro, the Italian form of Maurus, which means "dark-skinned." It used to refer to someone coming from Mauritania in northern Africa. Alternatively, it may be derived from the word "morro" meaning 'rock.'
