Her father has served time for drug possession and one uncle was sentenced to death for murder, while another has convictions for violence – meet Bianca Censori’s mafia family.
The architecture graduate, who is making headlines for her weird and wonderful wardrobe, married rapper Kanye West two years ago and the first thing she did was reveal the family skeletons.
Bianca’s Italian-born father, Elia ‘Leo’ Censori, was jailed in 1982 for five years for heroin possession and, like her siblings, reveled in her origins and modeled herself after the crime families of her family. native land.
The same year, his uncle Eris, a notorious underworld killer once nicknamed ‘Melbourne’s Al Capone’, was sentenced to death for the murder of Perth bartender Michael Sideris.
Eris was also sentenced to eight years in prison for heroin possession in a subsequent trial and fined A$20,000, almost £46,000 in today’s money.
However, the sentence was later commuted by “royal prerogative of mercy” to life imprisonment.
Kanye West and Bianca Censori had an ‘unofficial’ wedding two years ago
Bianca’s Italian father, Elia ‘Leo’ Censori (pictured), was jailed in 1982 for five years for possession of heroin.
Leo Censori’s ex-wife ‘ratted’ him out on the Herald Sun front page in 1991
Leo (left), 37, pictured with his brother Eris, a notorious underworld killer once nicknamed “Melbourne’s Al Capone”.
The death penalty was abolished in Western Australia in 1984, although the last execution in Australia took place in 1967.
He subsequently requested to serve his sentence closer to his home, in Melbourne, where his elderly parents lived, and was eventually released in 1999, but was ordered to remain on indefinite probation.
In 2015 he tried to have the restrictions lifted and, although he impressed the judge by defending himself, the decision was upheld and he still lives under the imposition of the court.
Meanwhile, older brother Edmondo, known as ‘Eddie Capone’, has convictions in Victoria for violence including assaulting police, robbery and threats.
In addition to heroin trafficking, Leo also has convictions for possession of a pistol and holstered ammunition.
In 1991, Leo’s ex-wife, Faye Glascott, told the truth about his illegal gambling empire.
She told a local Herald Sun reporter that Leo had been involved in a cartel that controlled much of a lucrative illegal gambling industry in Melbourne during the 1980s.
Glascott said at the time that her ex-husband, who ran a slot machine company, had made a fortune from illegal gambling.
“Leo can hoard money better than a bank,” he said as he revealed how he had found rolls of money – up to $40,000 – hidden in his Alphington home and recalled seeing about $60,000 on his coffee table.
At one point in the early 1990s, Leo also received a police escort when it emerged that there was a contract with rival gangsters who intended to kill him so they could steal his profits.
The local newspaper quoted his ex-wife as saying that Bianca’s father was a “major criminal figure.”
She added: ‘I was fighting with him because he was going into the kitchen to measure things using my utensils. I didn’t like that stuff in my house. It was a nightmare.’
Edmondo, Leo and Eris, along with three other siblings, were migrant children when they came to Australia with their parents Filippo and Grazia in the 1960s.
The Herald Sun exposed Leo Censori in 1991, when The Age’s John Silvester worked there
Leo Censori’s ex-wife exposed his life of crime in 1991 in Melbourne’s Herald Sun.
Leo Censori as he appeared in the Herald Sun in 1991
Pictured on the left is Bianca’s mother Alexandra, second on the left is Bianca herself, second on the right is Bianca’s sister Alyssia and on the far right is Bianca’s other sister Angelina.
Kanye West (left) finally met his Australian in-laws in Tokyo, seven months after marrying Melbourne native Bianca Censori (right).
Bianca Censori is the daughter of Melbourne mafia royalty
The family had packed their belongings at the house in the Abruzzo region of central Italy to start a new life in Australia.
As a teenager, Eddie was known for frequenting suburban cafes in Melbourne before the family entered the gaming machine business before being linked to violence and drugs.
While party-loving Bianca enjoyed the friendship of her former schoolmates in Melbourne, her father and uncles earned large amounts of money from their criminal activities.
Glascott said her ex-husband had made a career of studying players and finding out what they wanted.
She said: “He knows what makes them win. Some players lose huge amounts of money and then try to get it back.” They never do.
She said of her illegal gambling empire: “Those machines make wheelbarrows full of money.”
‘Some people love him but they have to love him, his machines put money in their pockets… They’re all idiots.
‘They say they like it because it makes them money. When he went to prison, none of them wanted to know.
Mrs. Glascott suggested that Leo would “never change” his bad habits.
He added: ‘I tried to convince Leo to go into a legitimate business; use his money, turn it into white money, dedicate himself to something he didn’t have to worry about.
But in Leo is the criminal. He becomes annoyed with the police trying to catch him and defeats them by changing the machines’ programs. He is excited about that.
‘He loves the lifestyle; That’s why it will never change.
Glascott and Leo divorced in 1989 after 15 years of marriage.