- Gained notoriety as head of the Chicago family of the Mafia.
- His relationship with Phyllis McGuire was the basis of the HBO movie Sugartime (1995). His other paramours included Judith Campbell Exner whom acted as a go-between for Giancana and John F. Kennedy.
- Is portrayed by Tony Curtis in Mafia Princess (1986), by Carmine Caridi in Ruby (1992), by Raymond Serra in Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair (1993), by Rod Steiger in Sinatra (1992) and by John Turturro in Sugartime (1995)
- Father of novelist/writer Antoinette Giancana.
- A strongman for Al Capone, he was classified 4-F (unfit for military service) deemed a "constitutional psychopath" with "strong antisocial trends."
- Is portrayed by Peter Friedman in Power and Beauty (2002)
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