BREAKING: Tom Sizemore, 'Saving Private Ryan' actor, dies at 61
Tom Sizemore, the "Saving Private Ryan" actor whose bright 1990s star burned out under the weight of his own domestic violence and drug convictions, died Friday at age 61.
Despite the raft of legal trouble, Sizemore had scores of steady film and television credits -- though his career never regained its onetime momentum. Aside from "Black Hawk Down" and "Pearl Harbor," most of his 21st century roles came in low-budget, little-seen productions where he continued to play the gruff, tough guys he became famous for portraying.
Sizemore was convicted of abusing ex-girlfriend Heidi Fleiss in 2003 -- the same year he pleaded no contest and avoided trial in a separate abuse case -- and sentenced to jail. The former Hollywood madam testified that he had punched her in the jaw at a Beverly Hills hotel, and beaten her in New York to the point where they couldn't attend the "Black Hawk Down" premiere.
Sizemore was the subject of two workplace sexual harassment lawsuits related to the 2002 CBS show "Robbery Homicide Division," in which he played a police detective. He was arrested as recently as 2016 in another domestic violence case.
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