Angela Raiola

About

Angela Joyce “Big Ang” Raiola (June 30, 1960 – February 18, 2016) was an American reality television personality. She was the niece of Salvatore “Sally Dogs” Lombardi (1941–2009), a caporegime (“capo”) and drug dealer in the Genovese crime family. Raiola dated gangsters and lived an opulent lifestyle.
Raiola starred in the VH1 reality television series Mob Wives from its second to sixth and final season in 2016. She was featured in her own spin-off series Big Ang in 2012 and Miami Monkey in 2013. At age 55, Raiola died from complications of lung cancer and pneumonia on February 18, 2016.

Raiola was born in Brooklyn, New York. She had two children, Raquel and Anthony (AJ) Donofrio. She married Neil Murphy in 2009.

In May 2001, Raiola was one of fifteen defendants indicted—and later convicted—for their roles in a narcotics operation, which distributed crack cocaine, powdered cocaine, and marijuana in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Federal agents described Raiola as an associate of the drug ring’s leader, who was sentenced to nearly thirteen years in prison. She was provided cocaine for “street level distribution,” according to an affidavit sworn by a DEA…