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A FORMER beauty salon owner, known within the Mafia as Vinny Gorgeous, was jailed for life without parole for the killing of one of his gangland rivals.

The reputed acting boss of the Bonanno organised crime family – a former beauty salon owner known as Vinny Gorgeous – was a mob traditionalist who believed in settling scores with violence, a prosecutor said today in opening statements at his US murder trial.