Corleone Mafia family
| Founded | 1900s |
|---|---|
| Founder | Angelo Gagliano |
| Founding location | Corleone, Sicily |
| Years active | 1900s–present |
| Ethnicity | Sicilians |
The Corleone Mafia family, also called the Leggio Mafia family, is a crime family of the Cosa Nostra based in the town of Corleone, Sicily. At its peak, it was dominated by the Corleonesi Mafia clan headed by Totò Riina and, for over a decade, was the most powerful mafia family in Italy and the world.
Born as a group of tax collectors and cattle rustlers in the service of local lords, the Corleone family became very powerful by the 1950s, growing to the point of supplanting the Palermo families in the 1980s, when it emerged victorious from the Second Mafia War (1981–1982). Its supremacy within Cosa Nostra lasted for 10 years, when the bloodthirsty and anti-state regime of Riina led to a harsh repression in the early 1990s that led to the family's defeat, with many members imprisoned under the 41 bis regime.
Today the family has around 70 "men of honour", many of whom are in prison, and is the head of the Corleone district, which includes several municipalities in the Palermo metropolitan area.