"It is with sad regret that we inform you that at 3:01 a.m. Angelia Raiola peacefully ended her battle with cancer, and was called home," according to a post on her Twitter page from friend Vinnie Medugno.
"She was surrounded by nothing but love from her immediate family, and the closest friends. YOU, (her fans) were some of the most special people in the world, and she loved you immensely. Thank you for your love, prayers, and unconditional support of Angela right to the very end."
Raiola is survived by her husband Neil Murphy, two children and six grandchildren.
The niece of Salvatore "Sally Dogs" Lombardi (a captain of New York's infamous Genovese crime family), Raiola made her Mob Wives debut in 2012 and later appeared on her own spin-offs, Big Ang and Miami Monkey.
Doctors first found a lemon-sized tumor in Raiola's throat, for which she had two surgeries, in March 2015.
"Things happen for a reason," Raiola told PEOPLE in September. "I'd smoked for 40 years. No one could tell me what to do."
But her sister Janine Detore revealed in early February that Raiola had been hospitalized for stage 4 lung and brain cancer, and, after a little less than a month of chemotherapy, one tumor had increased in size and the other remained unchanged.
Detore started a GoFundMe page to raise money for alternative treatments like cannabis oil – and surpassed the $25,000 goal in just two days.People
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