 Rizzuto's funeral was held at the Church of the Madonna della Difesa in Montreal's Little Italy on December 30, attended by around 800 people.He was buried at Saint-François d'Assise cemetery in Saint-Leonard, Quebec.Over four years after Rizzuto's death, the National Post reported that "during Vito Rizzuto’s era, if everything was going well for organized crime in Montreal, it was because of Rizzuto".