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Three years later, Bill Bufalino fell in love and married Marie Antoinette Meli, the niece of Detroit crime boss Angelo Meli.
According to THR, Ray Romano will appear in The Irishman as Bill Bufalino,
The attorney ended his lengthy relationship with Hoffa in 1971, four years before the labor leader disappeared.
Beloved wife of the late William. [...] Sister of Vince Meli.
Attorney Bufalino was born April 13, 1918, in Pittston, the son of the late Salvatore and Louise Bufalino, Italian immigrants.
After Hoffa disappeared in 1975 from a Bloomfield Township parking lot, the lawyer often was asked what he thought has happened. Mr. Bufalino theorized the CIA had asked Hoffa to have Chicago Mafia boss Sam Giancana arrange for assassination of Cuban leader Fidel Castro. [...] According to Mr. Bufalino's theory, because Hoffa was involved in the intrigue, he had to be killed to insure his silence. [...] with entombment in Holy Sepulchre Mausoleum, Southfield.
Bufalino was born in Pittston, Pa., one of nine children in a coal miner's family. He studied for the Roman Catholic priesthood for two years but switched to career in law and received a degree from the Dickinson School of Law in 1942. After World War II, in which he served as a lieutenant in the Army's Judge Advocate General Corps, he entered private law practice and in 1947 began his association with the teamsters [...] is survived by his wife, the former Marie Antoinette Meli, a son, William Jr., and four daughters, Louise Blake, Grace Ritter, Toni DeClaire and Fran Arent, all of the Detroit area. [...] William E. Bufalino Sr., a lawyer and associate of the former teamster leader James R. Hoffa, died of leukemia on Staursay at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 72 years old.