{"id":24875,"date":"2026-08-02T05:52:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T00:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=24875"},"modified":"2026-08-02T05:52:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T00:52:43","slug":"sopranos-star-vincent-pastore-dead-at-80-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=24875","title":{"rendered":"Sopranos Star Vincent Pastore Dead at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p><em>Sopranos<\/em> fans are mourning a huge loss.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vincent Pastore<\/strong>\u2014best known for his role as Salvatore \u201cBig P&#8212;y\u201d Bonpensiero in the HBO series\u2014has died, his managers <strong>Robert Attermann<\/strong> and <strong>Bob McGowan<\/strong> confirmed to E! News on Aug. 1. He was 80.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had the privilege of representing Vinny for more than 30 years, long before <em>The Sopranos<\/em> made him a household name,\u201d Attermann told E! News in a statement. \u201cTo the world, he will always be remembered as the unforgettable \u2018Big P&#8212;y,\u2019 but to those of us who knew him, he was so much more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Attermann, Pastore, a prominent figure in mob dramas in both film and television, was \u201cone of the kindest, most generous people I have ever known,\u201d who \u201ctreated everyone with warmth and respect, never turning down a fan who wanted a photograph or an autograph.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McGowan called Pastore\u2019s passing \u201cheartbreaking,\u201d noting that he was \u201cso sad\u201d over the news.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sopranos fans are mourning a huge loss. Vincent Pastore\u2014best known for his role as Salvatore \u201cBig P&#8212;y\u201d Bonpensiero in the HBO series\u2014has died, his managers Robert Attermann and Bob McGowan confirmed to E! News on Aug. 1. He was 80. \u201cI had the privilege of representing Vinny for more than 30 years, long before The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20260801\/2ec3e67a-512b-47ed-8026-a7218c015615_1785624437.jpg?fit=around%7C1200:1200&output-quality=90&crop=1200:1200;center,top","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}