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"The Vikki LaMotta Story: Jake, Raging Bull, Playboy, Sinatra and The Mob".

^ Vikki Lamotta New York Times accessed 1-1-2016.

"The Vikki Lamotta Story: Jake, Raging Bull, Playboy, Sinatra and the Mob".

^ Knockout! at Goodreads] accessed 1-1-2016.

She is survived by her daughter, Christi LaMotta. She died six months following open-heart surgery in Boca Raton, Florida on January 25, 2005, two days after her 75th birthday. Moriarty was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Vikki. She was portrayed by actress Cathy Moriarty in the 1980 film Raging Bull. In 1992, she moved to Hillsboro Beach, Florida. In her later years, she lent her name to a cosmetics line and appeared in commercials for Vikki LaMotta Cosmetics. She later posed for a nude pictorial in Playboy magazine in November 1981 at age 51. In 1962, she married Tony Foster they had a son, Harrison, and later divorced. dying from liver cancer in February and Joseph in an airplane crash that September. They had a daughter Christi and two sons, Jake Jr. At 27, Vikki left the marriage taking her three small children with her.

When Jake's boxing career had started to slow down, his drinking increased and he began taking out his anger on Vikki becoming more controlling of her. They divorced in 1957 after 11 years of marriage in which he was physically abusive. After LaMotta retired from boxing, the family moved to Miami, Florida. She had met him the previous year at a community pool while he was still married to his first wife. When she was 16 she married 24 year old Jake LaMotta, after becoming pregnant with his child. For example, her father once cut off all of Vikki's hair to deter what he perceived as sexual attention. Her father was strict and her mother did not intervene. Her paternal grandparents were immigrants from Romania.

She had several siblings, including two sisters, Phyllis and Patricia. She grew up in poverty because of her father’s gambling and frequent losses. She was born in the Bronx, the daughter of Abraham Lucien and Margaret 'Ruth' Thailer. Actress Cathy Moriarty (left), Jake LaMotta, and Vikki LaMotta, whom Moriarty played in the film Raging Bull, 1980s.