{"id":393257,"date":"2025-11-20T22:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/393257\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T22:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:52:15","slug":"gotti-actor-spencer-lofranco-dead-at-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/393257\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Gotti&#8217; Actor Spencer Lofranco Dead at 33"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Spencer LoFranco<br \/>\n                          &#8216;Gotti&#8217; Star Dead at 33<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Published November 20, 2025 9:37 AM PST<br \/>\n                                                                      |<br \/>\n                Updated November 20, 2025 11:20 AM PST\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Canadian actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/spencer-lofranco\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Spencer Lofranco<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; best known for his starring roles in &#8220;Jamesy Boy&#8221; and &#8220;Gotti&#8221; &#8212; has died.<\/p>\n<p>TMZ has learned his death is being investigated in British Columbia, Canada. The cause has not yet been determined.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20251120_f87e9cbf9b6241278b8af98bdb063ab5\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:985f7e75-d1b4-4a0d-a79c-2ffe7cc1943e\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/f87e9cbf9b6241278b8af98bdb063ab5_md.jpg\" alt=\"Spencer-Lofranco-sub-getty-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>His brother, <strong>Santino Lofranco<\/strong>, paid tribute to the star on Instagram and revealed he passed on Tuesday. He remembered him as a &#8220;legend&#8221; who &#8220;changed people [sic] lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Waiting for your permission to load the Instagram Media.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve reached out to their father <strong>Rocco Lofranco<\/strong>, a personal injury attorney in Toronto, for comment &#8230; so far, no word back.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer described himself as a naturally funny kid who was &#8220;always trying to make people laugh and always the center of attention&#8221; in a 2014 chat with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/film\/discovery-spencer-lofranco\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Interview<\/strong><\/a>. He said he decided to pursue acting seriously at age 17 &#8230; despite his father wanting him to be a hockey player and lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>He studied the craft at the New York Film Academy during a year-long conservatory, which is when he landed &#8220;Jamesy Boy.&#8221; He had 7 credits to his name, including 2013&#8217;s &#8220;At Middleton,&#8221; 2014&#8217;s &#8220;Unbroken,&#8221; and 2015&#8217;s &#8220;Home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20251120_7b35fa7b3ec3448bb40b654f66f1c8d9\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:985f7e75-d1b4-4a0d-a79c-2ffe7cc1943e\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7b35fa7b3ec3448bb40b654f66f1c8d9_md.jpg\" alt=\"Spencer-Lofranco-john-gotti-everett-collection-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>His final credit was 2018&#8217;s &#8220;Gotti,&#8221; in which he starred opposite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/john-travolta\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>John Travolta<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/kelly-preston\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kelly Preston<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He was 33 years old.<\/p>\n<p>RIP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spencer LoFranco &#8216;Gotti&#8217; Star Dead at 33 Published November 20, 2025 9:37 AM PST | Updated November 20,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":393258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-393257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115584483731659788","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}