Her father has done time for drug possession and one uncle was sentenced to death for murder, while another has convictions for violence – meet the mob family of Bianca Censori.
The architecture graduate, who is grabbing headlines for her weird and wonderful wardrobe, tied the knot with 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 possessing heroin and like his brothers revelled in their origins and modelled themselves on the crime families from their homeland.
The same year her uncle Eris – a notorious gangland killer once dubbed ‘Melbourne‘s Al Capone’ – was sentenced to death for the murder of Perth waiter Michael Sideris.
Eris was also given eight years for possession of heroin in a later trial and fined $20,000 Australian dollars – almost £46,000 in today’s money.
However, the sentence was later commuted on ‘royal prerogative of mercy’ to life imprisonment.
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Kanye West and Bianca Censori had an ‘unofficial’ wedding two years ago
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Bianca’s Italian born father Elia ‘Leo’ Censori (pictured) was jailed in 1982 for five years for possessing heroin
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Leo Censori’s former wife ‘ratted’ him out on the front page of the Herald Sun in 1991
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Leo (left), aged 37, pictured with his brother Eris, who was a notorious gangland killer once dubbed ‘ Melbourne ‘s Al Capone’
Kanye West’s wife Bianca Censori debuts a bold and braless look
The death penalty was abolished in Western Australia in 1984, although the last execution in Australia took place in 1967.
He later applied to serve his sentence closer to home in Melbourne where his elderly parents lived and he was eventually released in 1999 but ordered to remain on indefinite parole.
In 2015 he attempted to have the restrictions lifted and although he impressed the judge by defending himself the decision was upheld and he is still living under the imposition of the court.
Meanwhile eldest brother Edmondo, known as ‘Eddie Capone’, has convictions in Victoria for violence, including assaulting police, theft and threats.
As well as heroin dealing, Leo also has convictions for possession of a pistol and fully jacketed ammunition.
In 1991, Leo’s former wife Faye Glascott spilled the beans on his illegal gambling empire.
Ms Glascott at the time said her former husband – who ran a slot machine firm – had made a fortune from illegal gambling.
‘Leo can stack money better than a bank,’ she said as she revealed how she had found rolls of money – up to $40,000 – hidden around their Alphington home and recalled seeing about $60,000 sitting on their coffee table.
At one stage in the early 1990’s Leo was also given a police escort as it emerged their was a contract out on him with rival gangsters aiming to kill him so they could rob his takings.
The local newspaper quoted his former wife as saying Bianca’s dad was a ‘heavy 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 home. It was a nightmare.’
Edmondo, Leo, and Eris along with three other siblings were child immigrants when they arrived in Australia with their parents Filippo and Grazia in the 1960s.
