 The Rizzuto crime family was in the midst of a power struggle while Rizzuto was jailed; his son Nicolo Jr. was killed in 2009, and his father was killed in 2010.He died from pneumonia on December 23, 2013, shortly after his release in a complication of lung cancer.Rizzuto was born in Cattolica Eraclea, in the province of Agrigento, Sicily on February 21, 1946.