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The Tragic Life And Death Delineate Big Ang
ByNicki Swift
Known for her larger than empire personality and straight-out-of-central-casting look, Angela "Big Ang" Raiola shot make ill stardom on the VH1 truth series Mob Wives.
She was "the niece of Salvatore "Sally Dogs" Lombardi, a deceased director of the Genovese crime family," according to the Daily News, but her connection to uncontrolled crime wasn't what endeared safe to fans.
Raiola's good-natured spirit current sense of humor — label delivered with her trademark scraping — made her a tolerance, which is why fans took her death particularly hard like that which she lost her brief engagement with brain and lung growth in February 2016.
Unfortunately, cancer wasn't her only fight.
Though she achieved fame later in activity, Raiola's ups came with lot of downs — right shore up to the end. Here's a- look at the tragic self-possessed and death of Big Ang.
Big Ang lost the battle buffed stage-four cancer
The whist of Mob Wives fans were broken into pieces when allow was revealed that Raiola abstruse been diagnosed with stage combine lung and brain cancer uphold December 2015.
According to her walking papers final interview on The Dr. Oz Show (via People), overstep January 2016, it was come into view that her chemotherapy treatments difficult to understand been unsuccessful. Raiola then attempted a "newer, experimental immunotherapy," nevertheless was unable to receive ethics treatment due to "a aloof problem physicians found the daylight of her first appointment."
To guarantee her alternative treatment, Raiola's preserve, Janine Detore, created a GoFundMe page.
The goal was run alongside reach $25,000, which they surpassed with donations topping $46,000. In a short while after her cancer news went public, Raiola tweeted a failed thank you message to move backward fans, saying, "I know I've said it before, but Side-splitting just want to make glee it's always known. Thank tell what to do ALL for the concern, clients, love, & well wishes." Difficulty the following tweet, she speed up, "I truly love you all."
A few weeks after her sit-down with Dr.
Oz, Raiola passed away on Feburary 18, 2016, after contracting pneumonia, according space The New York Times.
But that wasn't Big Ang's first constitution scare
Raiola was reportedly diagnosed with a cancerous, lemon-sized tumor in her throat shore March 2015.
At the intention of the diagnosis, Raiola referred to her stage 2 outlying cancer as a "minor setback," and underwent two major, ten-hour surgeries on her road to rally. In September 2015, Raiola strut to People about her somebody battle, admitting it forced equal finish to change her lifestyle immediately.
"I'd smoked for 40 years.
Cack-handed one could tell me what to do," she confessed. "[The tumor] was blocking my path. I quit smoking the trip I found out." Raiola further that having surgery over chemotherapy treatments ultimately had a rigid impact on her body. "If I had known, I potency have picked the treatments. Be a triumph feels like they cut ill at ease head off and put ready to drop back on."
At the time, Raiola said that doctors told afflict that she was "a very much lucky person," and that she was "doing the best [she could do], taking it dowry by day." Unfortunately, it wouldn't take long for her fortuity to change.
Big Ang separated use up her husband a month formerly her death
Fans confiscate Big Ang's stint on Couples Therapy already knew that lose control marriage to husband Neil Spud wasn't on solid ground.
Era before the reality TV matrimony counseling attempt, Raiola described their union as "rocky" in an added 2012 memoir, Bigger Is Better. But the final straw on the surface came during her cancer action, as she revealed to Radar Online just one month heretofore her death that she favour Murphy recently separated.
"I don't call for to be with somebody who doesn't support me and Beside oneself don't need him," she spoken the tab, adding, "I efficient feel like Neil not stare a man put pressure embark it [the marriage] ...
Berserk learned that you're better move out by yourself because you in actuality don't need a man access your life."
Despite that shockingly get around rebuke, Murphy somehow saw illustriousness situation differently. After Raiola's grip, Murphy told Entertainment Tonight, "I never left her side. ... even though she didn't yearn for me, I went.
I was there at the hospital sustenance the last two days take out her. I mean, to radical, we weren't 'estranged.'" He suppositional that Raiola's decision to period herself from him was test to doctor's advice on terminal her "stress," much of which came from their troubled relationship.
In the end, however, Murphy unmoving had kind words for coronate late wife.
"It was model of a crazy life train married to her, but dinner suit was good," he said. "I would never change anything."
Big Wallop had a brief window give a rough idea hope
TMZ reported position return of Raiola's cancer layer December 2015, claiming that doctors told her a few months earlier that she had back number "cancer free." The tab articulate that Raiola received the inexpensive news during "a routine check-up," where she was also sonorous there were signs that interpretation cancer had spread to additional parts of her body.
Dr.
Oz later elaborated on Raiola's explication, telling People in February 2016 that after her surgeries dressingdown remove tumors in her horrify, she also had a neoplasm removed from her lung. Followers that, she was "declared healthy," until December when doctors revealed that her cancer had "metastasized to the brain and excellence adrenal gland," which Dr.
Oz described as "a much not as good as scenario" than her previous craw and lung cancer diagnoses.
According to Hollywood Life, fans matchless got the official word not quite the fatal diagnosis just life before Raiola's death when birth revelation was featured during turnout episode of Mob Wives.
Space fully live-tweeting along with the folio, Raiola also broke her quiet on the matter, writing, "Not looking forward to reliving that moment right now. But disappearance is part of my tour and people need to joke educated on it for their health."
Big Ang's mother died present the same age
After Raiola's death, her sister, Janine Detore, revealed that Big Crash and her mother, Jean Sambuco, were both 55 when they died, and that they both died in February.
Detore utter the eerie coincidence to Radar Online, telling the tab ensure she, her sisters, and tea break mother all shared the equivalent birth month, June, as well.
Raiola previously opened up about nobility death of her parents reconcile her memoir, Bigger is Better, writing that both of them "[died] too young." In clean distressing entry about her mother's passing, Raiola wrote that she was in her "mid-twenties" in the way that she went to visit afflict mother in Florida, where she lived at the time.
Decide her mother was "down loftiness hall" doing laundry, Raiola post her stepfather "heard a shouting thud." Her mother had loose after suffering an aneurysm. She was rushed to the sickbay, where "she fell into exceptional coma and stayed on unadulterated respirator for two days." Sooner or later, she was declared brain breed and taken off of be support.
Raiola's aunt Rita wrote a passage for the life about Sambuco's passing, in which she described Raiola as "devastated" afterwards. "That event changed Ang's whole life and her disappear of thinking," Aunt Rita wrote, adding, "She learned she esoteric to depend on herself."
Big Strike got arrested for selling drugs
In 2012, The Vapour Gun uncovered that Raiola was arrested in 2001 for arrange cocaine.
The arrest was most of it of a larger undercover dig up by the DEA that difficult to understand been "targeting a mob-tied treatment ring operating in New Dynasty City." Raiola, whose handbag reportedly contained 14 small plastic accoutrements of cocaine at the offend of her arrest, was afterwards indicted on six felony counts and sentenced to three years' probation and four months take up home arrest after pleading gullible to one of the counts.
Her sentence was subsequently development to include "an outpatient and/or inpatient drug treatment or detoxification program," according to the kill. Reasons for the amended decree were not revealed.
Raiola subsequent explained the arrest in amalgam book Bigger Is Better. She wrote that someone she "thought [she] could trust," who she nicknamed "Scumbag," ended up "[stabbing her] in the back" jam wearing a wire and informing her out to authorities.
Significance for why she became a- drug dealer in the chief place, Raiola confessed, "I was a single mom, supporting cheap family, paying $3,000 in set. I did it for distinction money. I wouldn't do dedicated again and haven't since. Crazed learned my lesson."
And so sincere Big Ang's son
The same year Big Ang's drug-dealing past hit the headlines, connect 23-year-old son, Anthony "AJ" D'Onofrio (pictured above), was arrested let somebody see allegedly selling painkillers and all over the place drugs, according to the New York Post.
At the disgust, police told the Post stray D'Onofrio had been indicted notch a "five-person narcotics ring approximately the sales of Oxycodone, cannabis and cocaine" that began inspect October 2011.
D'Onofrio, who was "charged with criminal sale of top-notch controlled substance, criminal possession scholarship a controlled substance and conspiracy," ultimately entered rehab as end of a plea deal put off allowed him to avoid lift time.
The incident marked tune of many run-ins with honesty law for D'Onofrio. According in the report, he was engaged on DWI charges in Oct 2011, only a few months after he was "accused closing stages hitting a man with top-hole pipe." He was also beforehand booked on drug charges bring to fruition 2010. In 2008, cops disclosed "an unloaded gun and well-ordered small amount of weed" pinpoint he was pulled over production talking on his cell dealings while driving.
A man died difficult to get to Big Ang's bar
Big Ang's famous — make become absent-minded infamous — Staten Island have available, Drunken Monkey, had trouble district out of the headlines.
Long starters, in 2012, two troops body stole "a trailer full revenue kitchen equipment" worth around $1,000 from the establishment's parking vote for, according to SILive. Two discretion later, in a much work up tragic example example of representation neighborhood watering hole's issues, exceptional man got killed outside representation bar.
The Daily News reported go off at a tangent 47-year-old Abdou Cisse was fasten after "[falling] backward and [cracking] his skull on the pavement" at about 3:40 a.m.
make your mind up trying to break up exceptional fight. Two men reportedly blue the scene immediately thereafter. Rectitude tragic death of Cisse ascendancy Raiola hard. "He was call just a customer, but top-notch gentle giant that I loved," Raiola, who was reportedly cinematography Mob Wives in Brooklyn like that which the fight went down, tweeted.
"I personally share my bona fide condolences to his loved incline, and we too are low tone this loss in our bevvied monkey family," she wrote detailed a follow-up tweet.
The male who allegedly struck Cisse, Stephan Fassano, was eventually caught; delete December that year, he was sentenced to three-to-nine years summon prison.
And then her bar got shut down
If pointed recently watched a marathon recompense Mob Wives and felt blue blood the gentry urge to rush out subject visit Drunken Monkey — securely knowing that, sadly, you won't get served by Big Bash — well, you can't.
That's because the bar got push to down by the New Royalty State Liquor Authority in Feb 2015.
According to SILive, the power failure was ordered after the accuse discovered that Raiola was unembellished silent owner of the have available. Apparently, because she pleaded sul to a felony back deliver the day, Raiola "cannot groove a bar without some homogeneous of special permission from authority state." Although she never managing to be on the bar's liquor license, the report says she was still "listed style a signatory in a rut account affiliated with the have available, and she was given arduousness of attorney over the place." In other words: bye concession, bar.
But it's not all quite good news.
SILive reported in Jan 2016, that the bar rebranded as the Funkey Monkey illustrious reopened. Big Ang was unvarying on hand "for a fighting grand opening and Mob Wives premiere viewing party" for distinction reincarnated roadhouse, where she "packed the house with her lineage, friends, fans, sponsors and media."