He Robert DeNiro’s grandson, Leandro De Niro Rodríguez, died from a “toxic” combination of at least six drugs, according to the autopsy of the 19-year-old man, who died on July 2. The New York City coroner confirmed to ‘Page Six’ that remains of “fentanyl, bromazolam, alprazolam, 7-aminoclonazepam, ketamine, and cocaine” after his death, which has been described as an accidental overdose.

“I am deeply distressed by the death of my dear grandson Leo“, assured the 79-year-old actor to the magazine ‘Variety’, who asked for “privacy” to mourn the loss of his relative. The death of the young Leandro was confirmed by his own mother, daughter of Robert De Niro and his first wife, Diahnne Abbot, who wanted to remember him as her “joy,” her “heart,” and her “everything.”I don’t know how to live without you but I’ll try to move on and spread the love and light that you made me feel so much by being your mother. (…) I’m so sorry, my baby. Very sorry. Rest in peace and in eternal paradise, my dear child,” Drena De Niro wrote on her social media.

Drena and her son played the duet of Paulette and Leo Stone, also mother and son, in ‘A Star Is Born’ (2018), by Bradley Cooper, themovie about lady gaga. Days after Leandro’s death, Drena herself published a comment on social networks, responding to a follower of hers, in which she assured that someone had sold his son fentanyl pills “that they knew were mixed”. According to ‘TMZ’ magazine, it was a friend of his who had not heard from him for several days who found the lifeless body of the 19-year-old, sitting on a chair in a New York apartment, with no signs of violence.

Days after, Police arrested a woman who could be related to Leo’s death, being the person who could have sold drugs to the actor’s grandson. Sofia Marks, 20, was not arrested for murder, but for her possible relationship with the drugs Leandro had taken before he died. The complaint against Marks, to which ‘Page Six’ was able to access, included text messages between the detainee and Leandro himself talking about the purchase of counterfeit oxycodone and Xanax days before his death. Police believe that the arrestee, known as ‘the princess of percocet‘, had already sold pills to children up to 15 years old.

A police source confirmed to the ‘New York Post’ that Marks is “well known in the world of drug trafficking” and charges for distribution of narcotics weigh on her. It is estimated that in 2022, the consumption of fentanyl caused the death of more than 70,000 people. Fentanyl, against which the United States Government intends to fight, is a pain reliever that is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, which is sold illegally mixed with other substances such as heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine or MDMA. Three of the drugs found in the body of De Niro’s grandson are from the drug family. benzodiazepineswhich are used for the treatment of anxiety disorders, stress, panic attacks or anguish.