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LaMotta had a troubled personal life, including an early spell in a reformatory, and was married seven times. He admitted to having raped a woman, having beaten his wives and coming close to beating a man to death during a robbery. In February 1998, LaMotta's elder son, Jake LaMotta Jr., died of liver cancer.
May 19, 2022 · Jake LaMotta Jr., who worked as his father's manager for a time, died of liver cancer, and his son Joe was killed in a plane crash only seven months after his brother died. In his later years, LaMotta attended numerous speaking engagements and public appearances.
However, his eldest son, Jake LaMotta Jr, died of liver cancer in February 1998, and his youngest son, Joseph LaMotta, died in September that year in the crash of Swissair Flight 111.
Sep 5, 1998 · In February, his older brother, Jake LaMotta Jr., died from cancer at 51. Jake LaMotta, portrayed by Robert DeNiro in Martin Scorsese’s 1980 film, “Raging Bull,” also has four daughters.
Jun 1, 2024 · Jake LaMotta (born July 10, 1922, New York, New York, U.S.—died September 19, 2017, Aventura, Florida) was an American boxer and world middleweight boxing champion (1949–51) whose stamina and fierceness in the ring earned him the nickname “the Bronx Bull.”
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Sep 20, 2017 · MIAMI (AP) — Jake LaMotta, the former middleweight champion whose life in and out of the ring was depicted in the film "Raging Bull," for which Robert De Niro won an Academy Award, has died, his...
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Sep 21, 2017 · Jake LaMotta, the middleweight champion boxer famed for his ferocity in the ring in the 1940s and early '50s, died this week — nearly 40 years after his obituary was written. That obituary,...
