LaMotta died at a Miami-area hospital from complications of pneumonia, according to his longtime fiancee, Denise Baker.Įven by the standards of boxing, LaMotta was a rough-hewn specimen, a product of the New York slums who learned his brutal trade on street corners and in reform school. A daughter, Christi LaMotta, announced his death in a Facebook post, but did not provide additional details.
He was 95, according to his family, although some records indicate he may have been a year older. Jake LaMotta, an iron-jawed boxer who brawled his way to the world middleweight championship in 1949 and whose tempestuous life was compellingly portrayed in an Oscar-winning performance by Robert De Niro in the film Raging Bull, died on Tuesday at a hospital near Miami.
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