Mike DePinto
Name: Mike DePinto
Birth Name: Michele DePinto
Hometown: Portland, Oregon, USA
Birthplace: Italy
Died: 1955-06-07 (Age:52)
Pro Boxer: Record
Mike DePinto fought out of Portland, Oregon, starting out as a flyweight and eventually campaigning as a lightweight during the 1910s and 1920s.
DePinto had arrests for stealing cars in the late 1910s, and then, after his boxing career ended, he seemed to have moved on to bootlegging and, after Prohibition ended, gambling. In 1935, he was involved in a high profile incident where something called the DePinto Gang was involved in a series of beating of local business owners. DePinto's brother, Nick, another unsavory character, was the leader of this gang, and wound up going to jail, while Mike avoided jail for this charge.
Mike DePinto seemed to stay out of trouble for the most part after that, and seemed to have contracted tuberculosis in the mid-1940s, which probably led to his death. Still he was arrested for "maintaining an illegal door" and heroin possession in San Francisco in the early 1950s.
His brother Nick continually appeared in the Portland Oregonian newspaper for running an illegal speakeasy and assault charges through the late 1940s.
According to the United States, Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Present website, one Michael DePinto was born during 1903 and died during 1955. He was buried in the Mount Calvary Cemetery in Portland, Oregon.
According to the Oregon, Death Index, 1898-2008 database, one Michael Depinto died on June 7, 1955 in Multnomah County, Oregon.
According to various records, Mike DePinto was born in Italy and immigrated to the United States ca. 1910. According to the New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 database, a six-year-old named Michele Depinto arrived in New York City on November 11, 1909 after sailing from Napoles, Italy on October 29, 1909. It appears that he was with his mother, a younger brother and a younger sister. They had resided in Bari, Italy and their final destination was "Portland."