Victoria Gotti (born November 27, 1962) is a writer and reality television personality who is also the daughter of the deceased Gambino crime family Mafia boss, John Gotti.\n', '

Victoria Gotti was born November 27, 1962 in Brooklyn, New York City. Her father was convicted mob boss and criminal John Gotti and her mother was Victoria DiGiorgio, who is of Russian Jewish ancestry on her own mother\'s side. Gotti was raised in a modest two-story house in Howard Beach, New York, with her four siblings, which include brother John A. Gotti, sister Angel, and her younger brother Frank, whom she referred to as her "little doll".\n', '

Gotti was the shyest of her siblings, and was so quiet that for several years her parents suspected that she was autistic. Despite claims otherwise, Gotti says her family lived a sheltered, lower middle-class life with old-fashioned family values. Her mother made all of the children\'s clothes, and cut the girls\' hair. Gotti\'s childhood was marked by frequent absences on the part of her father, due to the time he spent in prison. Her mother told the family that their father was away on business as a plumbing supplier, helping to build a prison facility. Gotti has commented on her childhood relationship with her father by saying, "I was raised to believe...none of what you hear, and only half of what you see." While in high school, she was diagnosed with mitral valve prolapse, a condition that makes the heart race, causing dizziness and palpitations. Her condition required her to watch her health carefully, take regular medication, and occasionally wear a heart monitor. As a teenager, Gotti\'s father was a very strict enforcer of curfews and was insistent on screening his daughters\' suitors. As an avid reader and devoted straight-A student, she skipped two grades in high school, entering St. Johns University in 1977, at the age of 15. \n', '

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