Jake LaMotta (Sept. 20, 2017, age 95)
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Jake LaMotta (Sept. 20, 2017, age 95)

Jake LaMotta, a former middleweight champion boxer who was portrayed by Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese’s award-winning 1980 movie Raging Bull, died Sept. 20 at the age of 95.

LaMotta died in a nursing home in Miami due to complications from pneumonia, his wife Denise Baker stated.

The boxer was best known for his fights against Sugar Ray Robinson. LaMotta held the middleweight title from 1949 to 1951.

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