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NEW YORK — Police say the actor who portrayed the gay lover of a closeted mobster on “The Sopranos” has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in New York.
Police spokesman Lt. John Grimpel said John Costelloe, 47, was found dead in an apparent suicide at his Brooklyn home Dec. 18.
The former New York City firefighter gained fame in 2006 when he was cast as short-order cook Jim “Johnny Cakes” Witowski opposite Joseph Gannascoli, who played gay mobster Vito Spatafore on the hit HBO show.
