Who Is John Gotti's Wife? All About Victoria DiGiorgio

Infamous mob boss John Gotti’s wife supported him until his death in 2002

John Gotti was an infamous mob boss, but he also had a large family, including his wife Victoria DiGiorgio and their five children.

A lifelong New Yorker — born in The Bronx and raised in Brooklyn — Gotti was involved in gang activity from a young age, leading him to eventually become the boss of the Gambino crime family. Gotti met his future wife at a bar when he was just 18.

While DiGiorgio already had one child from a previous relationship, the pair fell in love and ended up having five children, Angela, Victoria, John Jr., Frank (who died in 1980) and Peter.

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One of their daughters, Victoria Gotti, went on to extend her father’s legacy by starring in the reality show Growing Up Gotti in the early 2000s.

Speaking to the New York Post in 1999, DiGiorgio opened up about her relationship with Gotti. “I have spent 39 years of my life with him and God willing, I will spend the next 39 years of my life with him,” she said. “Is John a saint? Oh, no, I don’t think so. But I love him."

So, who is John Gotti's wife? Here’s everything to know about Victoria DiGiorgio and her relationship with the late mobster.

Gotti and DiGiorgio met in 1958 and married in 1962

Gotti met DiGiorgio at a New York bar in 1958.

The couple were very young; DiGiorgio, born in 1942, was just 16. Gotti, born in 1940, was 18. The pair married on March 6, 1962, in New York.

Per FBI documents, DiGiorgio had been in a previous relationship and had a child when she met Gotti, but given her private relationship with the media, she has never addressed it.

DiGiorgio is Italian and Russian

DiGiorgio was born on Dec. 5, 1942, in Brooklyn, N.Y. She has Russian roots on her paternal side and Italian ancestry on her mother's side.

DiGiorgio’s parents parted ways when she was young.

She and Gotti shared five children

After their marriage, DiGiorgio became a stay-at-home mother, raising the five children she shared with Gotti: Angela, Victoria, John Jr., Frank and Peter.

Frank, the Gotti’s second youngest child, died after being hit by a car in 1980. In her 2009 memoir, This Family of Mine, Victoria recalled: “My brother had borrowed another kid’s minibike and was riding in a construction site near the side of the road. But that dreadful day, a drunken driver was speeding down the avenue and struck my brother.”

Their neighbor, John Favara, was allegedly drunk behind the wheel when he accidentally hit Frank and continued driving, keeping Frank trapped under his vehicle.

In her memoir, Victoria remembered her father saying that “the hardest thing he ever had to do was tell my mother that their son was dead. He’d told me that just seeing her sitting in the waiting room made him afraid for ‘the first time in my whole life.’ ”

DiGiorgio experienced severe depression after Frank’s death

In her memoir, Victoria explained that her Uncle Pete drove her mother home from the hospital on the day of Frank’s death. “I remember watching her pass Frankie’s room, and she broke down,” she wrote.

DiGiorgio was “deeply medicated” per Victoria’s recollection and went into a serious depression.

DiGiorgio allegedly attempted to attack the neighbor who struck Frank with his car

Following Frank’s death, DiGiorgio – “her eyes filled with hate, disbelief and grief” – crossed onto Favara’s property with a baseball bat and “went crazy,” per her daughter’s memoir.

“She began banging the bat against [his] car” before lunging at him multiple times, never hitting him.

Later that year, the Gotti family went to Florida to get DiGiorgio out of town. While they were gone, Favara went missing and was declared dead by absentia in 1983. It wasn’t until 2001 that Gotti was publicly accused of being involved in his death. As Favara's body has yet to be found, Gotti was not charged for his disappearance or murder.

DiGiorgio supported Gotti until his death

Despite his criminal activity, DiGiorgio maintained her loyalty to Gotti for the duration of their long marriage.

While he was alive, and in the years following his death, DiGiorgio has maintained her privacy. According to estimates in the Get Gotti documentary, she inherited approximately $2 million dollars in the wake of her husband’s passing in 2002.

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