Inside Bianca Censori's gangster family: How Kanye West's in-laws went from poor Italian immigrants to drugs a

Her father has done time for drug possession and one uncle was sentenced to death for murder, while another has convictions for violence - meet the mob family of Bianca Censori.

The architecture graduate, who is grabbing headlines for her weird and wonderful wardrobe, tied the knot with rapper Kanye West two years ago and the first thing she did was reveal the family skeletons.

Bianca's Italian born father Elia 'Leo' Censori was jailed in 1982 for five years for possessing heroin and like his brothers revelled in their origins and modelled themselves on the crime families from their homeland.

The same year her uncle Eris - a notorious gangland killer once dubbed 'Melbourne's Al Capone' - was sentenced to death for the murder of Perth waiter Michael Sideris.

Eris was also given eight years for possession of heroin in a later trial and fined $20,000 Australian dollars - almost £46,000 in today's money.

However, the sentence was later commuted on 'royal prerogative of mercy' to life imprisonment.

The death penalty was abolished in Western Australia in 1984, although the last execution in Australia took place in 1967.

He later applied to serve his sentence closer to home in Melbourne where his elderly parents lived and he was eventually released in 1999 but ordered to remain on indefinite parole.

In 2015 he attempted to have the restrictions lifted and although he impressed the judge by defending himself the decision was upheld and he is still living under the imposition of the court.

Meanwhile eldest brother Edmondo, known as 'Eddie Capone', has convictions in Victoria for violence, including assaulting police, theft and threats.

As well as heroin dealing, Leo also has convictions for possession of a pistol and fully jacketed ammunition.

In 1991, Leo's former wife Faye Glascott spilled the beans on his illegal gambling empire.

She told a local paper reporter from the Herald Sun that Leo had been involved in a cartel that controlled a large slice of a lucrative illegal gambling industry in Melbourne during the 80s.

Ms Glascott at the time said her former husband – who ran a slot machine firm - had made a fortune from illegal gambling.

'Leo can stack money better than a bank,' she said as she revealed how she had found rolls of money - up to $40,000 - hidden around their Alphington home and recalled seeing about $60,000 sitting on their coffee table.

At one stage in the early 1990's Leo was also given a police escort as it emerged their was a contract out on him with rival gangsters aiming to kill him so they could rob his takings.

The local newspaper quoted his former wife as saying Bianca's dad was a 'heavy criminal figure'.


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