 He married his second wife Vera Girotti in 1966 and had one child.Two years later, he married his third wife Cristina De Almeida Guimarães after moving to Brazil, and had four children.In 1958 he was arrested for cigarette smuggling and criminal association during an investigation conducted by the Guardia di Finanza against the Corsican Pascal Molinelli and the Tangerian Salomon Gozal, indicated as major suppliers of cigarettes and drugs for the Sicilian gangs; in January 1959 he was arrested again for the smuggling of two tons of cigarettes to supply Yugoslavia.