Posted on 06/20/2013

LOS ANGELES--James Gandolfini, 51, died Wednesday while vacationing in Rome.

Dr. Claudio Modini, head of the emergency department at the Policlinic Umberto I hospital in Rome, said Gandolfini suffered a cardiac arrest. He arrived at the hospital at 10:40 p.m. (2040 GMT, 4:40 p.m. EDT) Wednesday and was pronounced dead at 11 p.m. after resuscitation efforts in the ambulance and hospital failed, Modini said.

An autopsy will be performed starting 24 hours after the death, as required by law.

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SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle

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