Ippolito (Paul the Zip) Agresta – aka “The Greaseball,” “Paul the Greaser,” “Paul Agresta” and “Ippolito Paolo Agresta” (TN) – was born on June 18, 1906, in the Port City of Gioia Tauro, Calabria, Italy.
After immigrating to the United States in the early 1940s, he moved to Connecticut and took up residence in the city of Bridgeport. On June 20, 1945, it is documented that he became a naturalized U.S. citizen at Bridgeport.