The Sopranos
1999
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The front door to John Costelloe’s Sunset Park home was still sealed with police stickers yesterday, more than a week after the rugged 47-year-old actor committed suicide.
Costelloe, a former NYFD firefighter, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on December 16, 2008, at the age of 47. His body was found two days later at his home in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. [1] Shortly before his death, Costelloe had been playing a hustler in the hit ensemble play Gang of Seven. [2]
The actor who portrayed the gay lover of a closeted mobster on "The Sopranos" has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in New York, police said. Police spokesman Lt. John Grimpel said John...
John Costelloe, a former FDNY firefighter, shot himself in the head in his basement bedroom on Dec. 16, cops and friends told the New York Post. The front door to Costelloe's Sunset Park home was...
John Costelloe, a New York City firefighter-turned-actor who on The Sopranos played closeted mobster Vito Spatafore's lover, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
WITH THE DEATH of John Costelloe, the actor who played Jim “Johnny Cakes” Witowski on The Sopranos, fans of the landmark TV series (1999-2007) lost an important player in the show’s most gay-positive, and perhaps most crucial, story line.
John Costelloe, best known for playing Johnny Cakes Witowski, the gay-fireman lover of a mob capo in the TV drama, was found dead in his New York home after family were unable to reach him.
