Paul "The Fox" Volpe (Italian: [ˈvolpe]; 31 January 1927 – 13 November 1983) was an Italian-Canadian mobster and Toronto-based member of the Buffalo crime family.

[2] He had a sister Laura, and four older brothers, Albert, Eugene, Frank and Joseph, who owned a car wash together, while also being involved in rackets.

[3] When he was released in 1969, he started forming a formal gang that did not favour a specific ethnicity – the most notable of which were: Nathan Klegerman, who helped with jewellery theft, loansharking and stock frauds; Chuck Yanover, who was the weapons expert; Murray Feldberg, who was the loan shark; Ron Mooney, who specialized in burglaries and crooked card games; and Ian Rosenberg, who was as an enforcer.

[9] With Volpe living a more outlandish lifestyle and agreeing to appear in an extensive CBC News documentary in 1977, he accidentally overexposed the Canadian mob.

With the murder of Bruno in 1980 and the up rise of new power in the city, Volpe returned to Toronto, but without his previous gang as most were in jail or fled.

[12] Fox Hill had a huge Canadian flag flying on the front lawn and was lit up by floodlights at night, which marked Volpe out as a man who was seeking attention, which was not the norm with gangsters.

[12] The Buffalo crime family also operated in Toronto and Hamilton, and in 1981, hired former Satan's Choice MC hitman Cecil Kirby to kill Volpe and his driver Pietro Scarcella in an arrangement with Rocco Remo Commisso of the Commisso family of Toronto, for $20,000.

[7] Volpe, who had a reputation for being devious and treacherous, had involved the Commissos in a real estate deal and cheated them, causing them to vow vengeance.

[10] During a conversation on 31 March 1981, Commisso told Kirby that he needed the approval of an unnamed higher authority before he could give the orders to kill Volpe.

[15] Sergeant King later stated he had been expecting that Volpe would refuse his request, and was most surprised that he agreed to assist the police.

[17][2] The police informer Marvin Elkind stated that Volpe was murdered on the orders of Nicodemo Scarfo on the account of his real estate scams in Atlantic City, which he failed to cut him in on.