The alleged queen of Sicily’s mob rackets just had her tiara tarnished by Italian cops.
Maria Angela Di Trapani — the suspected mastermind behind La Cosa Nostra’s reorganization following the death of kingpin Toto Riina — has been arrested.
Cops say the mob princess — her father is a fugitive — spent seven years in prison for passing commands from her killer hubby to lieutenants on the outside.
Salvino Madiona was sentenced to life in prison for the brazen 1991 slaying of anti-Mafia businessman Libero Grassi. Grassi was clipped for encouraging Sicilians to stand up to the mob.
But because it’s 2017, the Mama Mia Mobster has climbed the underworld ranks to boss, detectives said, citing wiretaps.
“Once released, she immediately returned to Cosa Nostra and took up a decisive role,” prosecutor Salvo De Luca told reporters.
Riina — nicknamed The Beast because of his bloodlust — died last month in an Italian prison. His heir is on the run and many thugs who may have taken up the mantle are in the slammer because of an anti-Mafia crackdown.
Instead, mobsters picked Di Trapani and asked her to relaunch the Cosa Nostra after Riina pegged out.
The femme fatale was nabbed early Tuesday with 24 other alleged gangsters.
Di Trapani was also in the news in 2000, when she conceived a child with her jailbird hubby — despite rigid rules that prevented intimate relations.
While female gangsters are rare in North American, female crime queenpins are not unusual in the Italian underworld.
Last February, cops shattered the powerful Laudani crime group. The syndicate was allegedly run by three women: Maria Scuderi, 51; Concetta Scalisi, 60; and Paola Torrisi, 52.
Collectively they were known as the “three queens of Caltagirone.”
Their criminal careers came crashing down when the heir to the criminal empire ratted them out.