Vito Rizzuto
| Vito Rizzuto | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 21, 1946 Cattolica Eraclea, Sicily, Italy, |
| Died | December 23, 2013 (aged 67) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Nationality | Italian, Canadian |
| Citizenship | Italian, Canadian |
| Occupation | Businessman, Crime boss, Mobster, Racketeer |
| Known for | Boss of the Rizzuto crime family |
| Children | Nicolo Rizzuto (Nick, Jr.) Leonardo Rizzuto Bettina Rizzuto Renda |
| Parent(s) |
Nicola Rizzuto Libertina Manno |
Vito Rizzuto (February 21, 1946 – December 23, 2013) was alleged to be the leading boss of the Sicilian Mafia in Canada. He headed the notorious Rizzuto crime family, based in Montreal.
Vito Rizzuto was born in Cattolica Eraclea, Sicily, Italy, on February 21, 1946, and came to Montreal with his parents in 1954. Vito was the first child of Nicola Rizzuto and his wife, Libertina Manno. Vito was named after Nick's father, who was murdered in Patterson, New York when Nick was only nine. Nick would later be murdered as well, killed by a single sniper's bullet while having dinner with family in November 2010.
On Vito's eighth birthday, in 1954, the Rizzuto family, which by then included a daughter, Maria, arrived in Canada by ship, landing in Halifax and moving on to Montreal, where thousands of Italian immigrants thrived in a long-established community.
Vito married Giovanna Cammalleri, and had three children. His oldest son, Nicolo Rizzuto (Nick, Jr.) – named after his grandfather – was born on December 4, 1967. He was shot 6 times and killed near his car in the Montreal borough of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on December 28, 2009. Another son is Leonardo Rizzuto, and the other is his daughter, Bettina – named after her grandmother. His sister Maria was married to Paolo Renda, reputed consigliere of the Rizzuto crime family, who went missing on May 20, 2010.
His father Nicolo Rizzuto began his Mafia career in Canada as an associate of the Cotroni crime family that controlled much of Montreal's drug trade in the 1970s while answering to the Bonanno crime family of New York City. By the 1980s, the Rizzutos emerged as the city's pre-eminent Mafia crew after a turf war between the Montreal family's Sicilian and Calabrian factions and the murder of Paolo Violi, a Bonanno soldier who had been named acting boss of Montreal's family.
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