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   August 28, 2020 | 7:51am | [52]Updated August 28, 2020 | 8:05am
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   Anthony Martignetti in his iconic commercial for Prince spaghetti.
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   BOSTON — The Massachusetts man who as a 12-year-old boy appeared in an
   iconic television commercial for Prince spaghetti running through the
   streets of Boston’s Italian North End has died.

   The death of Anthony Martignetti was [59]announced on Facebook by his
   brother Andy. He was 63.

   “It is with a heavy and hurting heart that we announce to our family
   and friends that our brother Anthony J. Martignetti passed away
   suddenly in his sleep last night,” Andy Martignetti wrote. “None of us
   have accepted this yet and I don’t know when we will. RIP little
   brother, till we meet again, I love you.”

   The [60]1969 commercial featured a woman — not Martignetti’s real
   mother — leaning out a tenement window and shouting “Anthony! Anthony!”

   The commercial that ran nationally for 13 years cut to the young boy,
   who had moved to the US from Italy just three years prior, sprinting
   through the city streets, until he burst panting through the front
   door.
   [61]Anthony Martignetti Anthony Martignetti in recent years.Facebook

   “I always understood that it was larger than me, that I had a
   responsibility to preserve what that commercial meant to people,”
   Martignetti [62]told The Boston Globe last year. “I knew that if I got
   into trouble, little Anthony from the spaghetti commercial would be all
   over the paper.”

   Martignetti later worked as a court officer in Dedham and lived in
   Boston’s West Roxbury neighborhood.

   He is survived by his parents, wife, son, two brothers and a sister.

   A wake took place Thursday with a funeral Mass and burial scheduled for
   Friday.

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