Robert De Niro covered his face with a newspaper Thursday as he entered a wake for his teenage grandson, Leandro De Niro Rodriguez, who is believed to have died from a fentanyl overdose last weekend.
The legendary “Goodfellas” actor slipped into the Frank E. Campbell funeral home on Manhattan’s Upper East Side as Rodriguez’s mother and father made a solemn appearance, hand-in-hand, photos show.
The devastated parents — Drena De Niro, 51, and her artist ex-husband Carlos Rodriguez, 51— gazed straight ahead with furrowed brows as they prepared to bid their 19-year-old son farewell.
Other loved ones embraced outside the illustrious funeral home, which has held wakes for celebrities ranging from Biggie Smalls to John Lennon and Joan Rivers.
De Niro’s “Mean Streets” costar Harvey Keitel was among those attending the 19-year-old’s wake.
Rodriguez’s death is being probed by police as a possible overdose after his body was discovered Sunday inside a lower Manhattan apartment with a white powdery substance nearby.
Drena De Niro, who is the star’s eldest daughter, said tragedy struck after her son unwittingly took pills laced with the powerful opioid fentanyl.
“Someone sold him fentanyl-laced pills that they knew were laced yet still sold them to him,” Drena, 51, wrote on Instagram Tuesday when asked about the tragedy.
“So for all these people still f–king around selling and buying this s–t, my son is gone forever.”
Rodriguez’s toxicology report is still pending, and the city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has yet to disclose an official cause of death.
Robert De Niro, 79, said he was “deeply distressed by the passing of my beloved grandson Leo. We’re greatly appreciative of the condolences from everyone. We ask that we please be given privacy to grieve our loss of Leo” in a statement Monday.
The Oscar winner was photographed visiting the funeral home for the rich and famous with his daughter earlier this week.
Over the years, the Frank E. Campbell funeral home has also tended to the corpses of Judy Garland, Heath Ledger and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
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