Personal
By 1975, Scamardella was married to Mike Pesce, then a New York State Assemblyman for the 52nd Assembly District. They married sometime after his 1972 election into office. Pesce became an administrative judge in the 1990s, in the Brooklyn Civil Court system, later leaving that post. By 1999, when Pesce signed a restraining order against the New York City transit union in case of a strike, he and Scamardella had been divorced for some time and had a daughter, Vanessa, who was then a senior at Georgetown University. In 1996, Pesce's fiancee, Bonnie Wolters, had been among those killed in the crash of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island.
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