Rapper Kanye West’s new ‘wife’ Bianca Censori is the daughter of Australian mafia royalty.
The 46-year-old rapper reportedly had an unofficial wedding ceremony to the 28-year-old Melbourne architect in January – just two months after his divorce from Kim Kardashian was finalized.
Daily Mail Australia can reveal that Bianca’s father Elia ‘Leo’ Censori has served a harsh prison sentence after being convicted in 1982 of possession of a banned import (heroin) and sentenced to five years with a minimum of three.
Leo is the brother of Eris Censori – an infamous gangland killer once dubbed “Melbourne’s Al Capone.”
Eris was sentenced to death in Western Australia for murder, but the sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment.
The death penalty was abolished in Western Australia in 1984, although the last execution in Australia was in 1967.
Eldest brother Edmondo, known as ‘Eddie Capone’, has been convicted of violence, including assault by police, robbery and threats, in Victoria.
Kanye West and Bianca Censori had an ‘unofficial’ marriage.
Leo Censori was a gambling queen who struggled because of a heroin bust
Leo Censori’s ex-wife “betrayed” him on the front page of the Herald Sun in 1991
In addition to dealing heroin, Leo also has convictions for possession of a gun and fully cased ammunition.
Daily Mail Australia approached the Censori compound on Friday, but his wife Alexandra declined to comment when asked about her husband’s criminal past.
Leo Censori also did not contact the Daily Mail Australia after that visit.
In 1991, Leo’s ex-wife Faye Glascott spilled the beans on his illegal gambling empire.
She told Herald Sun reporter John Silvester that in the 1980s Leo had been involved in a cartel that controlled much of Melbourne’s lucrative illegal gambling industry.
Ms Glascott said at the time that her former husband had made a fortune from illegal gambling.
“I’ve seen the money,” she said.
Bianca Censori is the daughter of a former Melbourne criminal
Bianca Censori grew up in one of Melbourne’s more affluent suburbs
The Herald Sun exposed Leo Censori in 1991 when The Age’s John Silvester was working there
“Leo can stack money better than a bank.”
She said she found scrolls of money — up to $40,000 — hidden around their Alphington home and remembered seeing about $60,000 on their coffee table.
Leo still lives in leafy Alphington, alongside his current wife Alexandra, Bianca’s mother and her sisters Angelina and Alyssia.
West, 46, who is now called “Ye,” spent time with his in-laws last month after flying to Tokyo with his wife to be with them.
Angelina Censori shared a photo on Instagram of her famous sister dressed in a pink bodysuit and leggings while shopping at a Hello Kitty store.
Throwback photos posted to social media show Bianca posing and partying alongside her beautiful siblings Alyssia and Angelina, who have been compared to the Kardashian sisters.
Bianca grew up in the affluent suburb of Ivanhoe and later lived in the $2.8 million Alphington mansion where her parents still live.
The leafy suburban estate is far from bustling streets, the bustling city and the even louder world of media that Bianca found herself in after her “marriage” to Kanye.
Leo Censori’s ex-wife blew the whistle on his life of crime in Melbourne’s Herald Sun in 1991
Leo Censori as he appeared in the Herald Sun in 1991
The childhood home of Leo Censori
Kanye West (left) finally met his Australian in-laws in Tokyo, seven months after he tied the knot with Melbourne native Bianca Censori (right)
Kanye West’s new wife Bianca Censori, 28, (second, left) comes from a family just like his ex-Kim Kardashian. Pictured on the left is Bianca’s mother Alexandra, second right is Bianca’s sister Alyssia and far right is Bianca’s other sister Angelina
Silvester, who co-wrote the successful Underbelly series with fellow Melbourne reporter Andrew Rule, revealed that Bianca’s father was marked for death in the 1990s.
“Censori accepted a police guard when detectives discovered that a group of bandits were planning to kill him,” he wrote at the time.
“The police were told that a gang was planning to kill Censori in the garage of his house and steal his money from the slot machines. The gang expected him to be carrying about $60,000 in cash. The police guarded Censori, even though they knew he was deeply involved in illegal gambling.’
In her 1991 interview, Mrs. Glascott described her former husband as a “heavy criminal figure.”
“The police should organize a big raid and confiscate every machine, every machine,” she said at the time.
“If they took all the machines, Leo wouldn’t be able to operate anything. You’d wipe it out.’
Leo has served two years of his five-year sentence for drug possession following an Australian Federal Police raid.
They found heroin in the kitchen.
“I had a fight with him because he went into the kitchen to measure things with my utensils. I didn’t like that stuff in my house,” Mrs Glascott told Silvester.
“It was a nightmare.”
Alexandra Censori at her home on Friday. She refused to discuss her husband’s criminal past
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian in happier times
Bianca Censori is the daughter of Melbourne gangster royalty
Mrs. Glascott and Leo divorced in 1989 after 15 years of marriage.
She told Silvester in the 1991 interview that her ex-husband had made a career out of studying gamblers and figuring out what they wanted.
“He knows what brought them in. Some players lose large amounts of money and then try to win it back. They never do,” she said.
Mrs. Glascott said that Leo had made his fortune from illegal slot machines.
“Those machines make wheelbarrows full of money,” she said.
“Some people in Carlton love him, but they have to love him, his machines put money in their pockets… They’re all creeps. They say they like him because he makes money for them. When he went to prison, nobody wanted to hear about it.’
Mrs. Glascott suggested that Leo would “never change” his bad manners.
“I tried to persuade Leo to start a legitimate business; to use his money, to turn it into white money, to get into something he didn’t have to worry about,” she said at the time.
“But there’s the criminal in Leo. He gets a buzz from the police trying to catch him and he defeats them by changing the programs on the machines. He gets a kick out of that.
‘He likes the lifestyle; therefore he will never change.’
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