What Happened To John Gotti’s Wife, Victoria – Armessa Movie News

While Get Gotti chronicles the rise and fall of New York crime boss John Gotti, it may leave viewers wondering what happened to Gotti’s wife, Victoria. Not to be confused with the couple’s daughter of the same name, Victoria Gotti (née DiGiorgio) is a public figure by virtue of her husband, the so-called “Dapper Don” and former head of the Gambino crime family. As seen in Get Gotti, John Gotti kills Paul Castellano and takes his place as the head of New York’s infamous crime syndicate. With the Gambinos being one of the Italian American Mafia’s “Five Families,” Gotti came into a lot of power very suddenly in 1985.

However, while plotting Castellano’s murder aligned Gotti with high-ranking Gambino associates like Anthony Ruggiano Jr. for the first time, one person was with the Dapper Don decades earlier: his wife, Victoria. Nicknamed the “Teflon Don” after he evaded a string of indictments in the ’80s, John Gotti was eventually brought down by the feds and several Gambino turncoats in 1992. While the story has many movie-level twists and turns, Netflix’s three-part docuseries doesn’t linger too much on Victoria Gotti. However, it’s clear that Victoria “DiGiorgio” Gotti was a hugely influential and important figure in John Gotti’s life — until the very end.

John Gotti’s Wife Supported Him Until His Death

If Andrea Giovino’s connection to the Gotti family is the most complicated of John Gotti’s relationships, then his dynamic with Victoria Gotti, his wife, is the most straightforward. Victoria DiGiorgio came from humble beginnings: her parents immigrated to the U.S. to work in factories and pursue better opportunities. Despite this, Victoria’s mother inherited an ancestral home worth millions, which she later passed down to her daughter. Although she didn’t live a life of luxury, Victoria DiGiorgio wasn’t completely unaccustomed to money and privilege. That all began to change when she met John Gotti in 1958 and, just four years later, married him (via The U.S. Sun).

After the couple’s son, Frank, was killed in an apparent accident, Victoria couldn’t escape her grief. While on a family trip, the man responsible for Frank’s death vanished — and it certainly wouldn’t be the last time John Gotti turned to a hired gun. Even though Gotti’s deepening involvement with the Gambino crime family caused Victoria a lot of grief, she stood by her husband. In fact, even after Gotti received a life imprisonment sentence, they remained married until John’s death in prison in 2002. While the Teflon Don’s associates like Sammy “The Bull” Gravano helped take down John Gotti, Victoria DiGiorgio never publicly turned on her husband.

Where Is Victoria DiGiorgio Now?

Despite everything, Victoria DiGiorgio remained married to John Gotti for 40 years. While the couple had five children, only one of them, John Jr., followed in their father’s footsteps and joined the ranks of the Gambino crime family for a time. The other Gotti children largely disassociated themselves from the so-called family business and, like their mother, stayed out of the limelight. Despite John Gotti’s high-profile criminal charges, Victoria DiGiorgio has retained her privacy, though the release of Get Gotti has certainly piqued public interest. In the wake of Gotti’s death, Victoria inherited a good chunk of change, boosting her reported net worth to roughly $2 million.

Sources: The U.S. Sun