The Café de Paris is a famous bar on Via Veneto, one of the best known (and most expensive) streets in Rome. It is located at Nr. 90, close to the United States embassy.[1] The bar was immortalised in 1960 in the movie La Dolce Vita by Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini, in which Marcello Mastroianni played a "paparazzo" riding his Vespa in search of celebrities.[2]
In November 2008, the Italian anti-fraud police announced that the bar had been taken over by 'Ndrangheta crime families from Calabria.[3][4] The bar was in the hands of the Alvaro 'Ndrangheta clan. Antimafia judges from Reggio Calabria seized the premises in July 2009.[5] The bar was re-opened in November 2011 and is now managed by the National Agency for the Administration and Allocation of Confiscated Properties (Agenzia nazionale per l'amministrazione e la destinazione dei beni confiscati), and sells products produced by the anti-Mafia association Libera.[6]