Massimo Rizzoli

Massimo Rizzoli is the older child to Margherita and Lorenzo Rizzoli.

Biography
As a young child, Massimo idolized the fictional character of Robin Hood. The character even inspired him to take up archery at five years old, he was even a natural with a bow and arrow.

As a young heir to a billion-dollar corporate dynasty at Rizzoli Enterprises, Massimo was a reckless socialite. Constantly doing drugs, drinking, and partying.

On June 23, 1996, things changed for the Rizzoli family. After his graduation, Massimo (without asking) had his driver Harold Anderson drive him to his father's boat. While sailing in Puget Sound Anderson had the boat go into the North Pacific Ocean outside of Washington without Massimo noticing, he was occupied practicing his archery skills. Blindsiding the seventeen-year-old Anderson pulled a gun on Massimo. He had been given fifteen million dollars to assassinate the socialite. The two got into a fistfight which resulted in Anderson knocking Massimo unconscious. Since he'd been around Massimo his whole life Anderson couldn't shoot him instead, he threw him overboard. Anderson crashed the boat as a coverup. Once back in Washington Anderson told the Rizzoli's Massimo drowned in the North Pacific Ocean from the crash.

Names Meaning

 * Massimo: Italian form of Maximus. Roman family name that was derived from Latin maximus "greatest".
 * Emiliano: Spanish and Italian form of the Roman cognomen Aemilianus, which was itself derived from the family name Aemilius
 * Rizzoli: This name comes from the Italian word "ricco" meaning "curly." The name most likely referred to someone with curly hair.