Personal Life
Molinaro was born in the Lower East Side of Manhattan to Italian immigrants. He has three brothers and two sisters. He has lived in the Staten Island neighborhood of Fort Wadsworth since 1964.
He is a widower since 1990 when his wife of 28 years, Carol, died of complications relating to scleroderma. The couple had two sons, Peter and Steven.
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