Robert DeNiro received an Oscar for his stark portrayal of LaMotta in the film directed by Martin Scorsese. He was the first relative of a victim to file. LaMotta, who claims that he never earned more than a million dollars in his lifetime, filed a lawsuit against the airlines and Boeing for $125 million because of the death of his son. I think he just wanted to start living his own life.'" On September 2, 1998, Joe died in the explosion of Swissair Flight 111, which had departed from Kennedy Airport and was bound for Geneva. He was already asking me to find somebody to manage his dad. If the sauce had done well, he would've moved to Geneva. 'He had always been in the shadow of his father,' says Fell, Jake's lawyer and Joe's best friend, 'but now he was psyched. In July 1998, Joe and Jake went to Geneva to gauge prospects for the sauce in Europe, where Jake is popular. He traveled with Jake to autograph shows and cooked up the concept of LaMotta's Tomato Sauce. Price noted in Sports Illustrated that "it wasn't until the final months of his life that Joe began to shine. When he was paroled, he did his best to take his brother's place in helping his father. LaMotta's other son, Joe, had been convicted of trafficking in cocaine and served half of a five-year sentence. Jack LaMotta, who had managed his father, died of cancer in February 1998.
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