Grieving Robert De Niro is joined by daughter Drena and his friend Harvey Keitel at wake for the actor’s 18-year-old grandson – who died after taking fentanyl-laced pills at his $1M Wall Street home
- Leandro De Niro Rodriguez was found dead in his Wall Street apartment on Sunday, and his mother said he had been sold pills laced with fentanyl
Robert De Niro on Thursday attended the wake for his 18-year-old grandson Leandro, who died after taking fentanyl-laced pills.
The teenager’s lifeless body was found sitting in a chair beside white powder inside a $950,000, one-bedroom apartment in the Cipriani Club Residences on Wall Street, New York, on Sunday.
His mother – an American actress adopted by De Niro after the actor married her mother, Diahnne Abbott in 1976 – announced his death on Monday, saying: ‘I wish that love alone could have saved you’.
Drena, 51, announced the tragic loss of Leandro on Monday, not revealing his cause of death but declaring ‘I wish that love alone could have saved you’ (Leonardo pictured with Drena and grandfather Robert)