Andrew Bellucci, the famed pizza chef who helped reopen Lombardi’s, died on Thursday morning. (via EaterNY)
Andrew Bellucci at the premiere of ‘Untitled Pizza Movie’ in 2020. The film chronicled his career and prison sentence.Andrew Bellucci, the famed pizza chef who helped reopen Lombardi’s, died overnight. Bellucci collapsed while working at his Astoria restaurant, Andrew Bellucci’s Pizzeria, on Wednesday evening and was laterFew pizza makers made an impression on this city like Bellucci.
In his quest to be recognized as one of the city’s great pizza makers, he attracted the attention of the feds. In 1995, the year after Lombardi’s reopened on Spring Street, federal agents the pizzeria, ordered a pie, and arrested Bellucci for embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the New York law firm Newman Schlau Fitch and Lau, where he worked in the 1980s.
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