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Getty Paul Sorvino, famous for his work in "Goodfellas," has died at the age of 83 ... TMZ has learned. A rep for the actor tells us he died this morning with his wife Dee Dee by his side. Dee Dee says, "Our hearts are broken, there will never be another Paul Sorvino, he was the love of my life, and one of the greatest performers to ever grace the screen and stage.”

Paul Sorvino, an imposing actor who specialized in playing crooks and cops like Paulie Cicero in “Goodfellas” and the NYPD sergeant Phil Cerretta on “Law & Order,” has died. He was 83. His publicist Roger Neal said he died Monday morning in Indiana of natural causes. “Our hearts are broken, there will never be another Paul Sorvino, he was the love of my life, and one of the greatest performers to ever grace the screen and stage,” his wife, Dee Dee Sorvino, said in a statement.

SNIP Paul Sorvino threatens to kill Harvey Weinstein Paul Sorvino threatens to kill Harvey Weinstein “My love for my father has only continued to grow since this moment,” Mira, 50, tweeted in reply to a video of her 1996 Oscar acceptance speech in which she thanked Paul, 78, profusely. “All the love in my heart! He is the most loving father, the most brilliant actor, the most beautiful operatic tenor, the most talented visual artist- the wisest and most human advice giver, & best Grandpa ever!!” SNIP “I can’t say for certain if [my career] was impacted — there are...

Paul Sorvino has some strong words for Harvey Weinstein. “If I meet him on the street, he oughta hope that he goes to jail. Because if we come across [one another], I think he’ll be lying on the floor somehow, magically,” Sorvino, 78, told TMZ on Tuesday. “He’s gonna go to jail,” the “Goodfellas” star said. “That son of a bitch, good for him if he goes, because if not, then he has to meet me, and I’ll kill that X.”

<p>IT sure is hard to juggle your wife and your girlfriends - just ask billionaire investor George Soros.</p> <p>The 73-year-old Soros seems to be trying to patch things up with his wife of 20 years, Susan, by spending weekends with her and their two sons at their upstate Bedford estate. But he's also been seeing a string of lovely ladies on the side.</p>

FBI agents have questioned actor Paul Sorvino about his dealings with Robert C. Cordaro, the former Lackawanna County commissioner who steered $500,000 from the county into the production of "The Trouble with Cali," a movie Mr. Sorvino shot in Scranton three years ago but hasn't finished. Mr. Sorvino, who said Monday post-production editing is continuing on the film, said the agents wanted to know whether Mr. Cordaro personally benefited from his relationship with Mr. Sorvino. It is a federal crime for elected officials to enrich themselves while in office. Mr. Sorvino, in a telephone interview, was initially reluctant to discuss...

STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) - "Goodfellas" actor Paul Sorvino pulled a gun on his daughter's ex-boyfriend after the man pounded on her hotel door and made threats, the daughter testified Tuesday. "He got in my father's face and said, 'Go ahead, Paul, shoot, I ain't done nothing wrong,'" Amanda Sorvino, 36, told a Monroe County judge. The judge granted her request for a protection-from-abuse order against Daniel Snee, 21. Amanda Sorvino testified Snee threatened to kill her at a hotel Jan. 3 in Stowe, Vt.; she said she locked herself in the bathroom and called both police and her father. Her...