He died on 12 October 2010 in Tivoli, Italy due to cardiac arrest.
Fabrizio was a bodyguard to Michael Corleone who was hiding in Sicily.
Fabrizio betrays Michael by setting up explosives in his car, but kills his new bride instead.
A scene was filmed of him being killed by the Corleones using a car bomb but was cut from the motion picture before its theatrical release.
It appears in the 1977 The Godfather: A Novel for Television, which combined the first two films – The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, adding back scenes that had been previously cut and telling the story chronologically beginning with Vito Andolini's childhood in Sicily.