- Of Italian-American and Puerto Rican descent.
- Venus had four brothers: Frank (1963-2005), John Jr., Joseph, Louis, and one sister named Claire.
- Venus was found strangled and stuffed under a bed in a New York hotel room. Her body was discovered by a stranger four days after her death.
- She is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in North Arlington, New Jersey with her birth name on her epitaph.
- Her parents were John and Olga "Ollie" Pellagatti.
- None of her family members ever attended the House of Xtravaganza balls that she participated in when she was still alive.
- She has appeared in one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Paris Is Burning (1990).
- Great aunt of Hailey Marie Pellagatti.
- Aunt of Steven & Kevin Podurgiel Pellagatti.
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