 He opened his first restaurant, a pizzeria, when he was in his 40s, but it was destroyed by a fire.DiPaolo retired from wrestling full-time in 1965 and opened his second restaurant, an eponymous Italian restaurant now known as "Ilio DiPaolo's" in Blasdell, New York.He died in 1995 after being struck by a car during a torrential downpour while trying to enter a restaurant with his wife.