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'Big Ang,' Reality Star and Local Bar Owner, Dies of Cancer

February 18, 2016 7:40am | Updated February 18, 2016 7:40am
Angela "Big Ang" Raiola, seen here on May 13, 2015, died of cancer Thursday morning, relatives said.
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STATEN ISLAND — Angela "Big Ang" Raiola, star of VH1's "Mob Wives" and a former owner of the shuttered Drunken Monkey bar, died of cancer Thursday morning, relatives said in a statement posted on Twitter.

Condolences had already started pouring onto her social media profiles Thursday morning.

 

Raiola was a part owner of the Drunken Monkey bar until it closed in March 2015.

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