The Tragic Life And Death Of Big Ang

After Raiola's death, her sister, Janine Detore, revealed that Big Ang and her mother, Jean Sambuco, were both 55 when they died, and that they both died in February. Detore detailed the eerie coincidence to Radar Online, telling the tab that she, her sisters, and her mother all shared the same birth month, June, as well.

Raiola previously opened up about the death of her parents in her memoir, Bigger is Better, writing that both of them "[died] too young." In a distressing entry about her mother's passing, Raiola wrote that she was in her "mid-twenties" when she went to visit her mother in Florida, where she lived at the time. While her mother was "down the hall" doing laundry, Raiola and her stepfather "heard a loud thud." Her mother had collapsed after suffering an aneurysm. She was rushed to the hospital, where "she fell into a coma and stayed on a respirator for two days." Eventually, she was declared brain dead and taken off of life support.  

Raiola's aunt Rita wrote a passage for the memoir about Sambuco's passing, in which she described Raiola as "devastated" afterwards. "That event changed Ang's whole life and her way of thinking," Aunt Rita wrote, adding, "She learned she had to depend on herself."

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