According to "The Sopranos: A Family History", Peter Paul "Paulie" Gualtieri, son of Gennaro Gualtieri (although Paulie's biological father was later revealed to be a World War II soldier named "Russ"), has been a troubled street kid in Roseville, Newark from the age of nine. He dropped out of school after the ninth grade with the shop owners in Seventh Avenue, Newark and spent time in and out of juvenile correctional facilities during his early youth. Carmine Lupertazzi Sr. recalls that Paulie's presumed adopted father Gennaro was run over by a trolley. When he was seventeen, he officially became an enforcer/bodyguard for Johnny Soprano, He later moved to West Orange, New Jersey as an adult.