His father, Ludovico Imperiale, who died at the age of 82 on 16 July 2022, was a wealthy and well-known construction contractor of Castellammare di Stabia who built parks and buildings in the area and who served as the president and part owner of the city's football team, S.S. Juve Stabia.
He had an older brother who died in 1996 and bequeathed him the Rockland coffeeshop in Amsterdam from where Imperiale began his notorious criminal career.
During those years Imperiale began to earn millions of euros, becoming the referent of the Di Lauro's organization who dealt directly with the drug trafficking cartels in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia.
Yet, according to the pentito Antonio Leonardi, Imperiale was not a broker who acted independently, but, a full member of the Amato-Pagano.
The group was observed by the DEA having meetings in the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai, Imperiale's alleged operating base.