Victoria Gotti Biography
Summary
" Victoria Gotti" (born November 27, 1962 in Brooklyn, New York) is a daughter of the late mob boss John Gotti and his wife Victoria (often referred to as 'Victoria Gotti, Sr.'), and was the star of "Growing Up Gotti" on the A&E Network.
Her father was Italian American and it was alleged by muckraking journalist Jack Newfield, in a 2002 New York Magazine article, that her mother was half Italian and half Jewish. She has three sons by her ex-husband, jailed mobster Carmine Agnello; Carmine Jr., John, and Frank. She also had a stillborn daughter, Justine, in 1985.
Victoria has a sister, Angela (Angel) Gotti and two brothers, Peter and John A.. Another brother, Frank Gotti, died in 1980 in an automobile accident. John Favara, the driver of the vehicle involved, was abducted and killed, presumably in retaliation.
Victoria Gotti was a columnist at the New York Post and is currently a columnist for the US tabloid "Star", and is the author of several books including:
"The Senator's Daughter" (1997)
"I'll Be Watching You" (1998)
"Superstar" (2000)
She suffers from mitral valve prolapse and wears a pacemaker. She has also written about this condition.
She claimed she had breast cancer in August 2005. However, after being accused of feigning her illness by some media outlets, she admitted soon after her initial announcement that she did not have full-blown cancer but rather had 'precancerous cells' present in her breast. Her publicist, Matt Rich, quit after the breast cancer incident.
In 2006 Gotti published a cookbook, "Hot Italian Dish" which contains many Gotti family recipes for Italian food.
External links
(Victoria Gotti) at the Internet Movie Database
(The Smoking Gun: Blowing Up Gotti)
Credit
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