Carmine Agnello

Personal life On February 18, 1980, Agnello was ambushed by several men, beaten with baseball bats, and shot. Contemporary newspaper reports described the attack after his tow truck was forced off the road in Queens. According to John Alite's 2007 testimony, the attack was retaliation ordered by John Gotti after Agnello allegedly assaulted Victoria Gotti. In 1984, Agnello married Victoria despite her parents' disapproval. The couple had three sons, Carmine, John, and Frank. The family lived in a mansion in Old Westbury, New York, that was the location in 2004 for the reality television series, Growing Up Gotti.

In 2003, while Agnello was in jail, Victoria Gotti divorced him on grounds of constructive abandonment.

On February 19, 2008, Agnello quietly married Danielle Vangar, the daughter of activist Mourad Topalian. Vangar met Agnello in prison when she was visiting her father. Agnello and Vangar have a son, who was born in 2009. Agnello and his second family lived in Cleveland, Ohio. He owned a business in Ohio that towed junk cars.