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Rosanna Scotto Profile
Rosanna Scotto is an American Anchor who is currently working at FOX 5 News. At the station, she serves as a weekend anchor and reporter, and later in 1994, she started anchoring the weekday edition of Fox 5 News.
Rosanna Scotto Age
Scotto is 65 years old as of 2023. She was born on 29th April 1958, in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America. She celebrates her birthday on 29th April every year.
Rosanna Scotto Height
She stands at an average height of 5 feet 7 inches tall.
Rosanna Scotto Family
Scotto was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City, with her loving parents, Anthony Scotto, and Marion Anastasio. Moreover, her dad was born on May 10, 1934, and passed away on August 21, 2021, when he was 87 years old. He was an American New York mobster, as well as a labor union racketeer in the Gambino crime family. He was ruling the Brooklyn waterfront. Anthony was with his father-in-law, Anthony Anastasio. Scotto spent her youth and childhood with her 3 siblings, whose information is currently not available.
Rosanna Scotto Husband
Scotto is the wife of her husband Louis Ruggiero, a lawyer. Scotto is part-owner of the family’s New York City restaurant, Fresco by Scotto, where she often helps in the kitchen and greets diners. She is a cousin of NY1 news correspondent Michael Scotto. Rosanna is Catholic and has enrolled her son and daughter in Catholic schools. The couple has two children, a son, Louis “L.J.” Ruggiero, and a daughter, Jenna Ruggiero.
Rosanna Scotto Career
Scotto was Born and raised in Brooklyn, She is a graduate of Catholic University and holds a bachelor’s degree in fine arts. She received an honorary doctorate from Mount St. Mary College in 2014. Furthermore, she received an honorary doctorate from St. John’s University. Scotto is the co-host of Good Day New York. She has been a member of WNYW-FOX 5 News since 1986.
Scotto started her 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 returned to her native 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 a 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.
Having covered many major stories in the tri-state area, her assignments have also taken her to Israel, Rome, and across the United States. As a reporter, she won 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.”
Additionally, Scotto 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 has won three Emmys for anchoring FOX 5 News at 10 and Good Day New York. She is 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. Scotto has received a host of honors and awards for her community service work. Scotto lives in the New York area with her husband and their two children.
Rosanna Scotto Salary
She has an estimated annual salary of $30,000 to $80,000 from her career at FOX 5 News.
Rosanna Scotto Net Worth
Scotto has an estimated annual net worth of $ 1 million to $5 million earned from her career as an Anchor.
Rosanna Scotto Social Media Platforms
Scotto is very active on her Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. She has 71.9k followers on Twitter, 93.3k followers on Instagram, and 103k followers on Facebook.
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