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{{quote|'''Eddie:''' "She's a mafia princess. She's too close to know the truth."|''[[Grounded for Life]]''}}

== Anime &and Manga ==

* [[The Ingenue|Eve Genoard]] of ''[[Baccano!]]!'' is entirely unaware that most of the money her family makes isn't through their textile plants, but from the marijuana and cocaine market.

** As well as Neon Nostrade, who is literally a [[Mafia Princess]], except one of her hobbies is collecting human body parts so the spoiled part gets a bit twisted.

* Alice in ''[[Darker Thanthan Black]]'' is a spoiled [[Mafia Princess]] who doesn't want to have to inherit her father's empire, {{spoiler|and as a result has her Contractor bodyguard kill most of the management.}}

** Hakuron's arranged fiancée Reilan is this, too.

* Mao Jahana from [[Blood Plus+|Blood+]] is a [[Spoiled Sweet]] example.

== FanficFan Works ==

* Penelope Ann-Miller's character Tina in ''[[The Freshman (1990 film)|The Freshman]]''.

* In Baz Luhrmann's film version of ''[[Romeo and+ Juliet]]'', the action is set in mafia-controlled beach city. As a consequence, [[Leonardo DiCaprio]]'s Romeo and Claire Danes' Juliet are both mafia kids, and so is John Leguizamo's Tybalt.

* In ''Time to Depart'', by [[Lindsey Davis]], crime boss Balbinus Pius is given 'time to depart'- he is exiled from Rome and its territories. However, a power vacuum creates in his absence, and a new boss emerges- his son-in-law, married to his daughter, the [[Mafia Princess]] Balbina Milvia, who ends up having an affair with the main character's best friend... who happens to be the guy who exiled her father. Oops. He almost loses his job, and his life at that.

* ''Mona Lisa Overdrive'' by [[William Gibson]]. Kumiko Yanaka, a 13-year old Japanese girl, daughter of a fearsomely powerful [[Yakuza]] boss, suffers for being a [[Mafia Princess]]. She a life of powerless, lifeless, luxury. All her relationships are with smooth, cold, servants of her father. She would be far too valuable in the hands of his enemies for him to risk giving her freedom.

* ''[[Gentleman Bastard Sequence|The Lies of Locke Lamora]]'' features a subversion in the form of Nazca Brasavi; while she grows up in the lap of the luxury, she knows from a young age ''exactly'' what her father does, and is even groomed to serve as his heir. {{spoiler|At least, until a rival kills her off in a horrifying fashion to deliver a message to her father...}}

* In ''[[The Mysteries of Pittsburgh]]'' Art Bechenstein is also another gender-flipped variant who struggles to keep his friends separate from his father's life as a senior Mafioso.

* [[The Sopranos|Meadow Soprano]]. At first subverted then embraced: Meadow knows full well that her dad is a mobster, going so far as to out their father to her younger brother AJ when kids at his school start dropping anvils about how AJ could not be bullied because of the fact that the bullies feared what AJ's dad would do to them and their families if they tormented him. However, when Meadow finally confronts her father during a road trip to visit a college, Tony lies and Meadow believes him, even as Tony lies to her about him sneaking out during one of their nights away in order to kill an in-hiding mob snitch they had encountered by chance. When her mob-connected boyfriend dies (on orders of her father), Meadow is pulled aside by her mother and given a [[Stepford Smiler]] speech ordering her to make her vow never to believe the idea that her father ordered Jackie Jr.'s death. This is the turning point, as she ends up having no trouble living the lie, even chiding a fellow mafia princess for speaking of it in front of an outsider, and by the finale ends up telling her father that she is proud of what her father does and curses the government for "tormenting" the family in it's quest to bust her father. She even announces she's going to become a ''mob lawyer'', though she puts it in much more idealistic terms than that.

* "Let It Bleed", an episode of ''[[CSI]]'' had a local [[Mafia Princess]] as the victim. Everyone involved with the events leading up to her death is convinced that her father will kill them for allowing this to happen, despite the fact that her death was an accident and that the drugs she had willfully been taking at the time played a major part in it. A montage at the end of the episode shows that he in fact, did have everyone killed, including the two idiots who had inadvertently caused her death, the club owner who had supplied the drugs, her best friend, who she had ditched to acquire said drugs, and her aunt/guardian, whose house she had snuck out of to begin with.

* Princess was even ''[[Eastenders]]''' Den Watt's famous pet name for his adopted daughter Sharon whom he spoiled rotten. Den wasn't exactly a gangster but had a habit of being used as something of a [[Butt Monkey]] for the local Firm. He ends up being shot by the Firm and Sharon is left grieving only to have her dad [[Back Fromfrom the Dead|come back to life]] fourteen years later, having just faked his death to hide from the Firm all along. [[Daddy Had a Good Reason For Abandoning You|Hello Princess]] indeed. His love-child Vicky may also qualify, at least in the 80's when Den [[The Unfavourite|actually loved both his daughters]].

* ''[[General Hospital]]'' with Lily Rivera. Her mobster father separates her from her boyfriend by threatening the young man's life, then takes their child away from her as soon as it's born. Needless to say, she's repulsed and frightened by him--untilhim—until he nearly dies from pneumonia, at which point she forgives him. Ironically, she soon falls in love with mafia kingpin Sonny Corinthos and fits perfectly into his world because she knows not to ask questions about his business, and soon uses her father's mob powers to engineer a marriage to him. It backfires when she's killed by a car bomb meant for Sonny--plantedSonny—planted by her father, incensed that Sonny has refused to stop seeing his ex.

* Midori, a character exclusive to Chie's route in ''[[Kira Kira (visual novel)Kirakira|Kira Kira]]'', is one of these, but she doesn't get along with her parents and repeatedly runs away from home. Even once she's made her own life for herself, though, she still has yakuza minions doing her bidding...

== WebcomicsWeb Comics ==

* Cora May from Bomango, whom Hector asked out after being "[http://vanheist.deviantart.com/art/Spite-Actually-432682890 immunized]" to rejection by Gogo seems to be one. If having a HUGE''huge'' bodyguard/chauffeur attached is any indication, "the nature of her family's affairs grows possibly ominous, but for our story's purposes, we shall consider that dad - and by extension, daughter - don't mess around". She turned out to be not as much of Ice Queen as she looks, just a very no-nonsense lady.

* Wanda in ''[[The Fairly OddparentsOddParents]]'', as revealed in the episode where her [[The Don|father]] goes missing and she has to take over the family's "perfectly legitimate" garbage collection empire. She ends up making so many outrageous changes (including painting all the trucks pink and insisting on using lace doilies everywhere) that the men take her to "the butcher" as payback. {{spoiler|Literally--they take her out to dinner at a nice steakhouse to thank her.}} Bonus points for the [[The Godfather|horse head]] in Cosmo's bed; it's a stuffed animal that he sleeps with.

* Shoko Tendo, mild-mannered Japanese author whose entire body is covered in yakuza[[Yakuza]] tattoos. Her father was the boss of a yakuza clan, and she said in one interview that she once saw daddy forcing another man to [[Yubitsume|cut his finger off]].

** In an interesting inversion she claims in her memoirs to having been teased as a result of her father.

* [[Al Capone]] lavished his [[Spear Counterpart|son]] with expensive birthday parties.