Editing Joseph Colombo (section)

==Early life==
Joseph Colombo Sr. was born into an [[Italian American]] family on June 16, 1923, in [[Brooklyn]].<ref name="colombo dies" /> His mother was from [[Naples]], [[Italy]] and his father, Anthony Colombo, from [[Potenza]], Italy, was an early member of the Profaci crime family, which would eventually be renamed after his son. In 1938, he was found strangled in a car with his mistress.<ref name="new look">{{cite news|last=Gage|first=Nicholas|title=Colombo: The New Look in the Mafia |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1971/05/03/91282253.pdf|access-date=2011-11-09|newspaper=New York Times|date=May 3, 1971}}</ref>  Joe Colombo attended [[New Utrecht High School]] in [[Brooklyn]] for two years, then dropped out to join the [[U.S. Coast Guard]]. In 1945, he was diagnosed with [[neurosis]] and discharged from the service. His legitimate jobs included ten years as a [[longshoreman]] and six years as a salesman for a meat company.<ref name="colombo dies" /> His final job was that of a real estate salesman.<ref name="new look" />

Colombo owned a modest home in [[Bay Ridge, Brooklyn]] and a five-acre estate in [[Blooming Grove, New York]].<ref name="colombo dies" /> He married Lucille Faiello in 1944, and had five children including sons Christopher Colombo, Joseph Colombo Jr. (1946–2014)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.brooksfh.com/index.cfm/memsol.cgi?user_id=1448115|title=Brooks Funeral Home : Newburgh, New York (NY)|website=Brooks Funeral Home|access-date=2019-01-17}}</ref> and Anthony Colombo (1945–2017).<ref>{{cite web|title=Anthony Colombo, 71; helped get 'Mafia' out of 'The Godfather'|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2017/02/07/anthony-colombo-dies-helped-get-mafia-out-the-godfather/j2bs5GQdiaK67Ul0w7PIjM/story.html |access-date=2017-02-08|newspaper=Boston Globe|date=2017-02-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/nyregion/anthony-colombo-dies-at-71-helped-get-mafia-out-of-the-godfather.html|title=Anthony Colombo Dies at 71; Helped Get 'Mafia' Out of 'The Godfather'|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 24, 2017}}</ref>