Aldo was in the milieu known as the pig. He speaks also Dutch, Portuguese and English.
At the age of 20, Aldo left for the Netherlands, where he started working as a restaurateur in Amsterdam. He ran a Chinese restaurant, and later opened his own Italian trattoria called Le Delizie, on the Vijzelgracht. If that proved successful, he later opened another one, in Amsterdam-Zuid. He lived with his wife and three children in Amstelveen.