Yacovelli was born in little Italy in 1929 and his family is from Veneto, Italy the same region as Gambino crime family underboss Aniello Dellacroce. At a young age he started his criminal path as a thief and burglar before joining the Profaci crime Family. In 1963 Joseph Magliocco died and the commission, especially Carlo Gambino and Gaetano Lucchese, voted for Joseph Colombo to become the new head of the Profaci family. Yacovelli rose inside the ranks of the Profaci family mainly with help from Carlo Gambino, who vouched for Yacovelli to become the new consigliere. He was a man who always kept a low profile and never married, making the family business his main focus.
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