The widow of a Boca Raton, Fla., mob boss is suing HBO because she says her family was used as the model for its hit drama, "The Soporanos."

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Lynda Milito, wife of the late Louie Milito, told a Monday news conference in Fort Lauderdale "The Sopranos" creators used her life for the character of Carmella Soprano, played by Edie Falco, and her husband's for mob boss, Tony Soprano, played by James Gandolfini, WPLG-TV, Miami/Fort Lauderdale, reported.

Milito said she wants "fair compensation" from HBO, as well as "The Sopranos" production company and writers.

The show contains too many parallels to her own life to be a coincidence, she said.

Milito also repeated her claim that her husband killed Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa back in 1975.

She said her husband of 23 years disappeared two months after telling her he killed Hoffa.

Milito, the author of "Mafia Wife: My Story of Love, Murder and Madness" and "Mafia Widow," first made the Hoffa claim in her second book.