Who is Mario Lanza’s daughter Ellisa Lanza Bregman? Meet his wife and other children
Mario Lanza married his lover Betty Lanza in 1945 and had four children with her. It was almost love at first sight when he met her through her brother.
On April 13, 1945, shortly after Mario’s discharge from the army, the couple were married in a civil ceremony. They were remarried on July 15, 1945, in a Catholic church. They are so lucky to have 4 children of Colleen, Ellisa, Damon and Marc.
Betty returns to Los Angeles with the kids after Mario’s death. She moved in with him about five months after Mario’s accidental death from a drug overdose.
Ellisa’s children were raised by their grandparents after their parents died. Her siblings, however, met the same end as her parents. Colleen, one of their four children, later became a screenwriter and died in a car crash in 1997. Ellisa is the sole survivor of Mario’s two sons, Marc and Damon, died of heart attacks in 1991 and 2008, respectively.