Rosanna Scotto Biography
Rosanna Scotto is a skilled American journalist currently working at WNYW-FOX 5 as the co-host of Good Day New York. She is a member of WNYW-FOX 5 News since 1986.
Rosanna Scotto Age
She was born on April 29, 1958, in Brooklyn, New York City, United States of America.
Rosanna Scotto Height And Weight
She stands on an average height of 5 Feet 6 inches and weighs around 65kgs.
Rosanna Scotto Family
She is the daughter of Anthony Scotto and Marion Anastasio. Anthony is a Mobster born on May 10, 1934, in New York City, U.S. He is an American New York mobster as well as a labor union racketeer in the Gambino crime family. Anthony ruled the Brooklyn waterfront.
Rosanna Scotto Husband
She is happily married to Louis Ruggiero in 1986. Louis serves as a lawyer. The duo is blessed with two children, a son called Louis “L.J.” Ruggiero, and a daughter names Jenna Ruggiero. She is part-owner of the family restaurant in New York City named Fresco by Scotto. There, Jenna often helps in the kitchen and also greets diners. Michael Scotto, NY1 news correspondent is her cousin. her religion is Christianity. She belongs to the Catholic faithful and has also enrolled her son and daughter in Catholic schools.
Rosanna Scotto Children
Scotto and her husband are blessed with two children, a son called Louis “L.J.” Ruggiero, and a daughter names Jenna Ruggiero.
Rosanna Scotto Education
She attended and graduate from Catholic University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts. She received an honorary doctorate from Mount St. Mary College in 2014.
Rosanna Scotto Career
Scotto started her broadcasting career in television at WTBS, Ted Turner’s UHF television station in Atlanta, where she was a reporter for two local programs and an associate producer of the station’s evening newscast. She went back to her native home New York in the early 1980s as a reporter for WABC’s “Good Morning New York,” which eventually became “Live with Regis and Kathie Lee.”
After spending one year with “Good Morning New York” and “The Morning Show,” Scotto joined WABC-TV’s “Eyewitness News” as a reporter, where she remained until she joined FOX 5. Her assignments have taken her to Rome, Isreal, and across United State having covered numerous major stories in the tri-state area.
She has received an endless string of coveted assignments including the first exclusive interview with Diana Bianchi, the other woman in the Christie Brinkley divorce case, the Woody Allen/Mia Farrow child custody battle, the notorious “Preppie Murder Trial” and the trials of Joel Steinberg and the “Swiss Nanny” as a reporter.
Rosanna Scotto FO X 5
In addition, she has also led FOX 5 news to the forefront in getting Marty Tankleff a new trial and was granted an exclusive interview with him in jail. Scotto was awarded three Emmys for anchoring FOX 5 News at 10 and Good Day New York.
Scotto is also the winner of the 1995 New York State Associated Press First Place Award for her report “New York Survival Guide” and also the winner of three other Associated Press First Place Awards, including two special Associated Press Award nominations.
She attended and graduate from Catholic University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts. Scotto received an honorary doctorate from Mount St. Mary College in 2014. She received an honorary doctorate from St. John’s University. She is a native of Brooklyn, he resides in the New York area with her husband and their two children.
Rosanna Scotto Salary
She earns an annual salary ranging between $ 56,000 – $ 135,500.
Rosanna Scotto Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $1 million – $ 5 Million dollars