Ray Liotta died at the age of 67this Thursday, May 26, 2022. The mythical star of the film Freedmen died in his sleep, as specified by the site TMZ. “He was in the company of his wife who asks you to respect her pain“, confirmed to AFP a spokesperson for the General Directorate of Cinema of the Dominican Republic. The actor was working on a feature film entitled Dangerous Waters, at the time of his death. Before his tragic disappearance, to which a large number of stars like Robert de Niro have already reacted, Ray Liotta revealed a good strange anecdotevisiting Jay Leno.
Last November, Ray Liotta said he had received a terrifying package from a girl. One of Frank Sinatra’s daughters had indeed, according to him, mailed the actor a horse’s headafter he portrayed the legendary singer in the 1998 film The Rat Pack. A symbolic message for all fans of The Godfather, which means tacitly: “you are grilled“. The actor of the film Freedmenalso seen in Blow with Johnny Depp, then explained that the daughters of Sinatra, Tina and Nancy had offered him to play in a mini-series on the illustrious artist but that he had declined. Then, when he took the role later in The Rat Pack, he received this warning.
A horse’s head with a clear meaning
If obviously it was a dummy horse’s head, the message was nevertheless clear. “Turns out his daughters had sent him over and said, ‘Oh, you can do this one, but you couldn’t do the one we wanted you to do?“, he claimed to Jay Leno. In the end, Nancy and Tina never followed up on their miniseries, but were instead involved in the 2015 documentary Sinatra: All or Nothing at All. It’s not the only iconic role he turned down as Ray Liotta also declined the role of Tony Soprano in the cult HBO series. The Sopranos. What he denied, however, in the face of the version of David Chase.
On the private side, he was married to actress and producer Michelle Grace from 1997 to 2004, mother of his daughter, before having been in a relationship with Catherine Hickland, who had previously dated another actor, David Hasselhoff. Ray Liotta ended his life with his fiancée Jacy Nittolo.