(18 July 1932 - 1934) (divorced)

while trying to break into the movies as an agent, he becomes close to actress Thelma Todd
? introduces Todd to Lucky Luciano, with whom she has an affair. She will become DiCicco’s entree to narcotics and gambling in Hollywood.
18 July 32 elopes with Thelma to Prescott, Arizona. They are married by a justice of the peace. The civil ceremony will later be followed by a religious ceremony in Hollywood.
? their marriage quickly degenerates into a series of drunken brawls, one of which results in her having an emergency appendectomy. For consolation, she turns to drinks, drugs, and to director Roland West.
3 March 34 Thelma divorces him on grounds of cruelty and incompatibility
35 when Luciano tries to muscle his way into the operation of Thelma’s Sidewalk Cafe, Todd resists and goes to District Attorney Burton Fitts.
16 December 35 Thelma is found dead in her car at her home in Pacific Palisades, California. Her death will be officially labeled a suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. It will be alleged that through DiCicco Thelma became involved with other gangsters, who were moving in on Hollywood, lured by the vast wealth being generated by the movie industry. It is said that the gangsters wanted Thelma’s Sidewalk Cafe, and that Thelma stood up to them while the rest of Hollywood was caving in to their demands.

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