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).