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Marella was married to his wife, Maureen, for more than 40 years and had three children: Sharon (born 1960), [[Joey Marella|Joey]] (1963–1994), and Valerie (born 1966). [[Víctor Quiñones]] (1959–2006) was listed in Gorilla's obituary as his son as well.<ref name="NYT">{{cite book|title=The New York Times Biographical Service|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NXgoAQAAIAAJ|date=October 1999|publisher=[[Arno Press]]|page=1,552|first=Nick|last=Ravo}}</ref>
On July 4, 1994, his son, Joey Marella, fell asleep at the wheel and died in a car accident on the [[New Jersey Turnpike]], while returning from refereeing a WWF event in [[Ocean City, Maryland]]. He was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash.<ref name=":0" /> Fellow WWF employee [[Mike Chioda]] later commented that Marella was "heartbroken" about his son's death.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://itrwrestling.com/news/mike-chioda-gorilla-monsoon-his-sons-death/|title = Mike Chioda Recalls Helping Gorilla Monsoon Following His
In early 1994, Marella co-hosted the short-lived morning variety/game show ''Bingo Break'' on [[WBFF]] in Baltimore, Maryland, which also featured fellow WWF on-air personality [[Sean Mooney]] as the bingo caller. The program did not acknowledge Marella's wrestling career, and as such he was billed on-camera as Bob Marella rather than as Gorilla Monsoon.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wrestlecrap.com/inductions/bingo-break/|title = Induction: Bingo Break - and Bob Marella was his name-o|date = 14 May 2019}}</ref>
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