Rocco Pantaleo was an Australian businessman.

Born in Calabria

Calabria

Calabria , in antiquity known as Bruttium, is a region in southern Italy, south of Naples, located at the "toe" of the Italian Peninsula. The capital city of Calabria is Catanzaro....

, Italy

Italy

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, he emigrated to Australia in 1977 to find work. In 1985 he co-founded the La Porchetta

La Porchetta

La Porchetta /por'ket:a/ is a restaurant franchise in Australia, New Zealand, and Indonesia which has become one of the most successful Italian restaurants in these nations....

 restaurant chain. By the time of his 2010 death it had grown to 80 restaurants.

In 1996, he shot dead Keith Lane. Lane had confronted Pantaleo over allegations he had indecently assaulted a teenage waitress, Lane's niece. The court found that Pantaleo had acted in self-defence, but he was convicted of indecently assaulting the waitress.

Pantaleo died on 26 March 2010 in a motorcycle accident in St Kilda, Victoria

St Kilda, Victoria

St Kilda is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km south from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Port Phillip...

. He was fifty-three.