At age 14, Dallesandro and his brother moved to Queens to live with their paternal grandparents and their father. He repeatedly ran away from his foster home until his birth father finally relented and allowed Joe to live with him. ĭallesandro began acting out, and became aggressive. The senior D'Allesandro would visit them about once a month at their foster parents' home.ĭallesandro was initially content living with his foster parents, but later reportedly began to resent them, thinking that they were preventing him from living with his father.
The family later moved to North Babylon, Long Island. Both boys were eventually placed into the Angel Guardian Home in Harlem, prior to being fostered by a couple in Brooklyn. By the time Joe III was five years old, his mother was serving fifteen years in a Federal Penitentiary for interstate auto theft.ĭallesandro and his brother Bobby were taken to New York by their father, who worked as an electrical engineer. His mother, Thelma Testman, was 16 years old. Joe Dallesandro was born in Pensacola, Florida, to Joseph Angelo D'Allesandro II, who was in the U.S.
