The loose change thrown into the ring by the adult spectators helped to pay the family’s rent. Retrieved on August 2, 2012.Born Giacobbe LaMotta in the Bronx neighbourhood of New York, he had an impoverished childhood and told of how his father – a Sicilian by birth and the only man he feared, owing to the regular beatings – would force him into fights with other children.

'MGM Settles 'Raging Bull II' Lawsuit With Movie Name Change.' Archived August 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Deadline Hollywood (August 1, 2012). 'MGM Files 'Raging Bull 2′ Lawsuit Against Jake LaMotta & Sequel Producers.' Archived July 6, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Deadline Hollywood (July 3, 2012). ^ 'The Bronx Bull: Joe Mantegna, Tom Sizemore, William Forsythe, Paul Sorvino'.'The Bronx Bull is definitely not a Raging Bull sequel, especially in this trailer'. In August 2012, the producers retitled the film The Bronx Bull, disassociating itself as a sequel to Raging Bull, and the lawsuit was subsequently dropped. In addition, MGM argues that the defendants are publicly claiming the film to be a sequel to the original film, which could most likely 'tarnish' its predecessor's reputation. The former party argued that they have rights to make any authorized sequel to the original book, which goes back to an agreement LaMotta and co-author Peter Savage made with Chartoff-Winkler, producers of the original film. In July 2012, MGM, owners of United Artists, filed a lawsuit against LaMotta and the producers of Raging Bull II to keep the new film from being released. In 2006, Variety reported that Sunset Pictures was developing a sequel to Raging Bull entitled Raging Bull II: Continuing the Story of Jake LaMotta, chronicling LaMotta's early life, as told in the sequel novel of the same name.

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