Gene Hackman’s Cause of Death Revealed

Authorities now imagine that Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman died of coronary heart illness every week after his spouse had handed away from hantavirus — and should not have know his spouse was lifeless due to superior Alzheimer’s illness.

In keeping with the Related Press, these had been the findings of Santa Fe chief medical expert Dr. Heather Jarrell. The deaths of Hackman, 95, and spouse Betsy Arakawa, 65, “had been dominated to be from pure causes.” The our bodies of the couple had been discovered a few week after Hackman’s dying of their New Mexico house.

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The report states that Arakawa’s dying is linked “to hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a uncommon however probably deadly illness unfold by contaminated rodent droppings.” The sickness is “reported in spring and summer time, typically because of exposures that happen when individuals are close to mouse droppings in properties, sheds or poorly ventilated areas.” Arakawa’s is the primary case of hantavirus in New Mexico in 2025.

Hackman, a two-time Oscar winner for his performances within the movies The French Connection and Unforgiven, retired from appearing in 2003 and has largely lived a non-public life within the 20+ years since. (Throughout his retirement, he turned an writer and wrote a number of novels of historic fiction.) Hackman had a historical past of coronary heart illness in addition to a pacemaker, which final confirmed exercise on February 18, every week after Arakawa is believed to have died. The couple’s our bodies had been discovered of their house on February 26.

Jarrell mentioned that Hackman “had vital coronary heart illness” and added “I believe in the end that is what resulted in his dying.”