[3] While her megalomaniacal brother created scandal by giving interviews and making speeches in the courtroom, Rosetta kept a low profile.
"[3] She ruled in the headquarters of the NCO: the Castello Mediceo, a vast 16th-century palace with 365 rooms and a large park with tennis courts and swimming pool.
The castle was bought for several billion lire at the time and provided direct contact for Cutolo from the prisons of Poggioreale and Ascoli Piceno.
[1][4] Brilliant with figures, Rosetta Cutolo negotiated with South American cocaine barons, narrowly failed to blow up police headquarters, and was glamourized in a film, The Professor.
[5] She participated in a high-level meeting with representatives of the Sicilian Mafia and Camorra clans to try to put an end to the bloody war between the NCO and their rivals from the Nuova Famiglia, together with Cutolo's right-hand man Vincenzo Casillo.
Nevertheless, it is clear that Cutolo had always wanted to maintain a male-only organization based on principles such as criminal fraternity and so could never be seen giving a role to his sister.