months. Due to his age and suffering from cancer he was put under house arrest. He died on February 1, 2012, in his house in the Porta Nuova district of Palermo. References Sources Servadio, Gaia (1976), Mafioso. A history of the Mafia from its origins to the present day, London: Secker & Warburg 1927 births 2012 deaths Gangsters from Palermo Sicilian mafiosi sentenced to life imprisonment Deaths from cancer in Sicily