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"Sylvester Stallone&amp;#039;s half-sister Toni Ann Filiti has died, aged 48. Filiti was diagnosed with lung cancer earlier this year and was reported to be recuperating at the home of Sylvester&amp;#039;s mother Jackie Stallone. Jackie has now confirmed to the New York Daily News that the cancer spread to Toni Ann&amp;#039;s brain and ultimately took her life on Sunday (August 26). &amp;quot;I was holding her in my arms. I had just washed [her] face and told her how pretty she looked, and she just fell asleep,&amp;quot; Jackie recalled. Jackie went on to express her grief that Filiti died not long after the tragic passing of Sylvester&amp;#039;s son Sage Stallone at age 36. &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s too young to go, but she wasn&amp;#039;t feeling any pain. What a terrible month. First Sage and now Toni,&amp;quot; Jackie said. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s hard. At least they&amp;#039;re together now in heaven.&amp;quot;  She added: &amp;quot;[Sylvester] said he can&amp;#039;t take any more pain. He said he&amp;#039;ll always be there for [Toni&amp;#039;s] son.&amp;quot; Sylvester spoke out publicly after his son Sage&amp;#039;s death in July, asking the media to grant his family privacy. &amp;quot;This agonising loss will be felt for the rest of our lives. Sage was our first child and the center of our universe and I am humbly begging for all to have my son&amp;#039;s memory in full left in peace,&amp;quot; he said. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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