Molto grazie, Annt!
To my knowledge or consciousness, no current Mob boss has anything close to Gotti's charisma. In fact, with all the squealers and RICO-convicts, it's hard to tell who's in charge of any Mob family these days, except for Vincent (The Chin) Gigante--and that's only because he managed to avoid jail for a long time by playing the fool and pretending he was non compos mentis. . Part of Gotti's public appeal was that his persona ran against the tide of anonymous bosses. He never stopped talking, posing, living the most public life of any Don since Capone or Columbo. Look where it got him!
People hate Gravano because he squealed to save himself and got an ultra-sweet deal: he served less than five years after admitting to 19 murders, including those of relatives and close friends. Plus, he ratted out Gotti. Say what you want about the Dapper Don (whom I regarded as dumb as a bag of hammers), he was a popular figure. Gravano was in the Witness Protection Program, left it to co-author an autobiography, was pinched last year in Arizona in a big-time Ecstacy racket with members of his family, and has apparently pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing (if he hasn't been sentenced already). Once a bum, always a bum.