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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDrena De Niro appears to have spoken out about the cause of her son Leandro’s untimely death. Leandro De Niro Rodriguez was announced dead on Sunday (2 July). He was 19 years old and had appeared as an actor in the 2018 films A Star is Born and Cabaret Maxime. After the news of his passing broke, Leandro’s grandfather, prolific actor Robert De Niro, issued a statement expressing his…

Leandro De Niro-Rodriguez, the grandson of Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro, was sold fentanyl-laced pills before he died, his mother said Monday.Actor and producer Drena De Niro shared more details about her son’s death in response to an Instagram user who asked her “how” and “why” the 19-year-old died. Drena De Niro confirmed Leandro’s death Sunday. No cause of death was given.“Someone sold him fentanyl laced pills that they knew were laced yet still sold them to him,” Drena De Niro commented Monday under one of her…

MISSION, Texas —  There was the teenager from Texas. The father from San Diego. The runner from Indiana.They went for a day trip. Or a wedding. Or a winter vacation. But they all died after taking counterfeit pain pills purchased at drugstores in Mexico. And they all got those medications in the more than three years between the time the federal government learned of the threat and officials finally warned the public.A Times investigation published last month showed that both the U.S. State Department and the Drug…