Joseph LaMotta

 

 

Age: 49

 

Summary: son of former middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta whose father's career became immortalized in Martin Scorsese's 1980 film Raging Bull, who inherited his father's love for boxing and entered a number of Golden Gloves competition, who became president and founder of the LaMotta Foods, Inc. and was in the process of launching its products, including the LaMotta Tomatta Sauce, dedicated to his famous father.

 

 

Cause of Death: Killed in the Swissair Flight 111 airplane accident

 

Born: October 11, 1948

 

Died: September 2, 1998

 

Location: Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada