Personal Life
Lampanelli married in 1991 and divorced soon after, though she and her former spouse remained friends. She married Jimmy Cannizzaro, a former rock & roll club owner from Valley Stream, New York, on October 2, 2010 at the New York Friars' Club. Lampanelli is an avid supporter of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. When members of the Westboro Baptist Church planned to protest a show she held on 20 May 2011 in Topeka, Kansas she promised to donate $1000 to Gay Men's Health Crisis (The same charity she contributed to during the celebrity apprentice) for every protester that attended. After an initial count of 44 protesters she rounded the donation to an even $50,000, crediting the donation as being "made possible by the WBC."
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