Gyp Rosetti

Giuseppe Colombano "Gyp" Rosetti
Boardwalk Empire character
Promo image of Gyp Rosetti from season 3 of Boardwalk Empire.
First appearance	"Resolution"
Last appearance	"Margate Sands"
Created by	Terence Winter
Portrayed by	Bobby Cannavale
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Occupation	Capo for the Morello crime family

Giuseppe Colombano "Gyp" Rosetti is a character in Boardwalk Empire, portrayed by Bobby Cannavale. Rosetti is a New York City gangster who works for Joe Masseria (Ivo Nandi). Hot-headed and easily offended, he is the primary antagonist of season three.

Rosetti was born in Sperlinga, a small Italian commune in Sicily. He grew up in poverty, living in a hut carved into a cave. His father was a brick layer who died when he was 50. Rosetti eventually emigrated to the United States and began working for Italian mob boss Joe Masseria. He runs brothels, speakeasies and illegal gambling dens in southern Manhattan. He lives in an apartment with his wife, two daughters and mother-in-law. Although Rosetti regularly kills people over slight insults, he does not retaliate when his wife and mother-in-law openly mock him. He is also depicted as having sadomasochistic sexual tastes; he has one of his lovers choke him with a belt while he masturbates, and has another insult him as a form of foreplay.

In the first scene of season three, Rosetti beats a mechanic to death with a tire iron for making an off-handed comment about Rosetti not knowing what 3-In-One Oil is. He travels to Atlantic City on New Year's Eve (December 31, 1922) in order to purchase a large quantity of bootlegged liquor from Nucky. In order to simplify his operations and keep the law at bay, Nucky decides to sell alcohol exclusively to Arnold Rothstein (Michael Stuhlbarg). Rosetti, anticipating a 50% price markup if he were to purchase from Rothstein, curses Nucky and leaves for New York City. He then takes over the small town of Tabor Heights and blockades Nucky's shipment heading to Rothstein in New York. Since Tabor Heights sits on the only road suitable for winter travel between Atlantic City and New York and is the last spot to fill up on gas on the way, Nucky has no way to deliver his alcohol. Nucky eventually makes a truce with Rosetti, selling him alcohol, and Rosetti leaves Tabor Heights. However, Rosetti changes his mind when he perceives Nucky's departing words, "Bone For Tuna" — a mispronunciation of "buona fortuna", Italian for "good luck" — as an insult. This escalates to Rosetti's men ambushing a convoy and killing 11 of Nucky's men. Rothstein responds by sending Benjamin Siegel (Michael Zegen) to kill Rosetti. Although Siegel fails to kill Rosetti, he does kill four of Rosetti's men and a waitress Rosetti had been having sex with, which causes Rosetti to leave Tabor Heights and return to New York.