His sons, Jack and Joseph, died seven months apart in 1998, Jack from cancer and Joseph in a plane crash. Baker’s daughters, Meggen Connolley and Natalia Baker his brothers, Joe and Al his sisters, Maria Hawfield and Anne Ramaglia and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Baker, LaMotta is survived by his daughters, Jacklyn O’Neill, Christie LaMotta, Elisa LaMotta and Mia Day Ms. It had no connection to the film “Raging Bull.” Baker in a revue-style Off Broadway production, “The Lady and the Champ,” which ran for two weeks in 2012.Ī second movie about his life, “LaMotta: The Bronx Bull,” was released in 2015, with William Forsythe portraying LaMotta. Robert De Niro won an Academy Award for his portrayal of LaMotta, and the film was nominated in six categories, including best picture. He ultimately became a pop culture symbol of rage when the director Martin Scorsese told his story in his 1980 film “Raging Bull,” based on LaMotta’s 1970 memoir of the same title, written with Joseph Carter and Peter Savage. Having gone undefeated as an amateur after his release, he turned pro in 1941 and unleashed his enmity on dozens of ring opponents. His longtime fiancée, Denise Baker, said he died of pneumonia at Palm Garden of Aventura, a nursing Home and rehabilitation facility, where he had been under hospice care.Ī “good-for-nothing bum kid” with a terrible temper, as he later described himself, LaMotta learned to box in an upstate New York reformatory, where he had been sent for attempted burglary. Jake LaMotta, boxing’s “Raging Bull,” who brawled his way to the middleweight boxing championship in a life of unbridled fury - within the ring and outside it - that became the subject of an acclaimed film, died on Tuesday in Aventura, Fla., near Miami.
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