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	Jake LaMotta Summary
		LaMotta met two challengers (Tiberio Mitri and Laurent Dauthuille) and beat them, and then he was challenged by Robinson on their rivalry's sixth fight.
		In 1953, LaMotta shocked the sports world when he was called to testify by the FBI in the hearings they were holding against some mafia groups.
		LaMotta said during the hearing, perhaps not realizing that he was also harming his own image, that he had thrown the fight in 1948 with Billy Fox in exchange for a shot against world champion Cerdan.
	www.bookrags.com /Jake_LaMotta (802 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Jake LaMotta
		LaMotta met two challengers (Tiberio Mitri and Laurent Dauthuille) and beat them, and then he was challenged by Robinson on their rivalry's sixth fight.
		In 1953, LaMotta shocked the sports world when he was called to testify by the FBI in the hearings they were holding against some mafia groups.
		LaMotta said during the hearing, perhaps not realizing that he was also harming his own image, that he had thrown the fight in 1948 with Billy Fox in exchange for a shot against world champion Cerdan.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Jake_LaMotta (606 words)

	Jake LaMotta - WikiLeasing.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		LaMotta said during the hearing, perhaps not realizing that he was also harming his own image, that he had hrown the fight in 1948 with Billy Fox in exchange for a shot against world champion Cerdan.
		In a 2004 interview, LaMotta recalled that after attending the premiere of ''Raging Bull'' with his by then ex-wife (the two had divorced in bitterness in the 1950s), he told her he could not believe he was hat bad and apologized.
		In 1998, his son Joseph LaMotta dded in the Swissair flight that crashed off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada.LaMotta has been active on the speaking and autograph circuit and has published several books about his career and his wife and his fights with Robinson.
	www.wikileasing.com /2/Jake_LaMotta.html (463 words)

	swissair
		OTTAWA -- A former boxing champion whose son was killed in the crash of Swissair flight 111 is the first relative to file charges against the airline and the plane's manufacturer, Boeing, Canadian television reports said yesterday.
		Jake LaMotta filed the charges in a Brooklyn court, demanding $50 million for the death of his son, Joseph LaMotta, 49, on the grounds that both the airline and the manufacturer knew about a possible electrical fault present in the MD-11 aircraft.
		Jake LaMotta was a middle-weight boxer who retired in 1954 with a record that included 30 knockouts.
	www.dispatch.co.za /1998/09/10/sport/SWISSAIR.HTM (197 words)

	BBC News \| Americas \| Boxing champ sues over plane crash son
		LaMotta, 76, the former world middleweight boxing champion who was played by Robert De Niro in the Oscar-winning film Raging Bull, is seeking $50m for the death of his son, Joe, 49, who was one of the 229 victims.
		Joseph Fell, LaMotta's personal attorney and a friend of his son, said: "Jake wants not only for himself, but on behalf of the other families."
		LaMotta became undisputed world middleweight champion in 1949 and was the first man to beat the legendary Sugar Ray Robinson.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/168178.stm (391 words)

	Famous people who died in aviation accidents
		The pilot's inadequate remedial action to recover from an inverted spin, while performing aerobatics.
		49, noted chef, son of boxing champ Jake LaMotta.
		Crashed into the Atlantic after the crew reported smoke in the cockpit and cabin.
	www.planecrashinfo.com /famous1990s.htm (1080 words)

	Jake LaMotta - Biography and career (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A rematch was signed, but while Cerdan was flying back to the United States to fight the rematch, his Air France Lockheed Constellation crashed at the Azores, killing everyone on board.
		In a 2004 interview, LaMotta recalled that after attending the premiere of "Raging Bull" with his by then ex-wife (the two had divorced in bitterness in the 1950s), he told her he could not believe he was that bad.
		Another plane crash would affect LaMotta's life in 1998, when his son, Joseph LaMotta, a noted chef, died in the Swissair flight that crashed in Nova Scotia, Canada.
	www.fameboxing.com /jake-lamotta.htm (553 words)

	Raging Bull: 25 to Life (Act 1) \| TheSweetScience.com Boxing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With a screenplay by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin, and with Robert DeNiro as LaMotta in a tour de force that is still on tour, the film begins where the book ends.
		Jake LaMotta is backstage at the Barbizon Plaza bursting out of a tux and reciting poetry in front of a mirror.
		LaMotta bobs and weaves and lands a left to the jaw and Reeves is down.” Reeves barely beats the count.
	www.thesweetscience.com /boxing-article/2731/raging-bull-life-act (2346 words)

	LaMotta_Tommie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tommie Grace Mansfield LaMotta was born on Sept. 30, 1911, in Bandera, Texas.
		She was the youngest daughter of Judge Andrew Lee Mansfield and Matilda Dorow Mans-field.
		LaMotta was a member of the First Texas Silver-Haired Legislature in 1986.
	www.rootsweb.com /~txaustin/Austin/Bobit/2005/LaMotta_Tommie_05.html (188 words)

	Boston.com / Latest News / Region
		All 229 people on board Flight 111, including LaMotta's 49-year-old son Joseph, were killed when the plane plunged into the Atlantic on Sept. 2, about one hour after taking off from New York for Geneva.
		LaMotta's lawsuit charges that Swissair and Boeing, which owns McDonnell Douglas, the manufacturer of the MD-11, were aware of three directives issued by the FAA between 1996 and 1997.
		Joseph LaMotta, of Manhattan, helped run his father's tomato sauce and boxing memorabilia businesses.
	www.boston.com /news/daily/09/lawsuit.htm (509 words)

	Avengers 2000 Presents: Daredevil
		No, Joseph LaMotta is not a man who is trifled with, especially by those who wish to continue their lives.
		LaMotta scowls, not favoring the hints that the assassin is dropping.
		Was I being vague in my intentions?" Natasha teases, the energy caster on her left wrist lighting up with electrical energy, lighting Maria LaMotta’s face in a hue of pale blue.
	www.ironrodstudio.com /av2000/issue.asp?issueid=756 (2645 words)

	In The News
		Joseph R. Gannascoli is a Brooklyn, New York, born and raised actor who has plied his trade for many years in some well known movies, but hit pay dirt, as Mafia Capo Vito Spatafore, a tough guy character that is found out to be gay in the HBO Hit Original Series, The Sopranos.
		Two Guys Smoke Shop announces that Cigar Mogul Rocky Patel and Soprano Star Joseph R. Gannascoli, who plays the character Vito Spatafore in the HBO hit series The Sopranos, will be appearing at several locations this weekend to sign autographs and take photos.
		Last week, the actor Joseph Ganna-scoli—who, as Vito on The Sopranos, is living out this television season’s only great tragic love story—was tooling around Lynbrook, Long Island, in a new silver Mercedes R350 with a back seat filled with flowering plants.
	josephrgannascoli.com /in_the_news.htm (8046 words)

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