Steve Gallo

Vincent Gallo was born on April 11, 1961, in Buffalo, New York to Vincent Gallo Sr. and Janet Gallo. He has an older brother named Charles and a younger sister named Janine. Gallo was raised Catholic, and made his First Communion in 1969. Gallo's parents are Sicilian and worked as hairdressers, with his father having retired to be "a gambler." Gallo has described his parents as dishonest people, saying "If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that." Growing up, Gallo says that his father was abusive and beat him on several occasions, including one instance where Gallo's father broke his nose. He has said that while growing up, his father was "this kind of dark, raging figurehead...That's not who he is today, but when I was a child there wasn't a day...when he didn't hit me, punish me, yell at me or tell me something I did wrong." Gallo's mother also forbade him from decorating his own room, which he shared with his siblings and grandfather, and from owning a guitar, leading Gallo to secretly hide the latter underneath his bed. Gallo has attributed his self-described controlling and perfectionist nature as a filmmaker to his childhood experiences. …

Gallo resides in Arizona as of 2022. He moved to the state in September 2018, when he purchased a $3.25 million mansion in the Catalina Foothills area near Tucson; the home, located on 3.5 acres in a gated community, was built in 2007 from a design by the architect Rick Joy. The same month, Gallo had sold two condominium units located within the same building in the Arts District neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles. He previously owned two Los Angeles houses designed by modernist architect John Lautner: the Garcia House and the Wolff House. He also previously owned a condo at Trump Tower (purchased in 2019 and sold in 2022), as well as apartments in buildings designed by Jean Nouvel and Richard Meier. Gallo is a teetotaler. He is a collector of vinyl records and pre-war sound equipment. Gallo has said that he once lived in author William S. Burroughs's house for six months. Gallo also knew poet John Giorno, who lived with Burroughs at the time. Throughout their lives, Burroughs and Gallo exchanged postcards, letters, and mixtapes. Ohio State University holds one of Gallo's letters to Burroughs among its archival collection. In 1984, Gallo was married to a woman for just 10 weeks, before their relationship ended. Gallo has held close friendships with musician Johnny Ramone (prior to Ramone's death in 2004), musician John Frusciante, and actress Milla Jovovich. …