JAMES Gandolfini’s ex-fiancée Lora Somoza died in a “tragic accident,” The Sun can exclusively reveal. The beautiful brunette sex therapist died last year at 51 – the same age at which The Sopranos star passed of a massive heart attack in 2013.
She slipped at her mother Candace’s Los Angeles home, hit her head and was found dead in the swimming pool, according to friends.
Lora first met James while she was a production assistant on The Mexican, which he starred in alongside Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts.
They were engaged in 2003 and sources say she never got over their break up just two years later. News of the bereavement comes as a TV movie prequel of the cult crime classic - in which James famously depicted brash but likeable mob boss.
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