


On Monday, De Niro said in a statement that he was "deeply distressed by the passing of my beloved grandson Leo". Representatives for De Niro did not immediately respond to a request from Sky News' US partner network NBC News for comment about his daughter's posts. Sky News has approached the New York City medical examiner's office for comment. "So for all these people still f****** around selling and buying this s***, my son is gone forever." The actor's eldest daughter, Drena De Niro, announced Leandro's death on Monday, saying the family had lost a "sweet angel" - but a cause of death was not shared at the time.īut later replying to an Instagram comment asking how her son had died, the 51-year-old wrote: "Someone sold him fentanyl laced pills that they knew were laced yet still sold them to him. Robert De Niro's 19-year-old grandson Leandro De Niro Rodriguez died after being sold fentanyl-laced pills, his mother has said.
