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Variety reports:
Gene Hackman likely died about a week after his wife, Betsy Arakawa, passed away due to hantavirus, a medical examiner announced Friday.
Hackman died of cardiovascular disease, with Alzheimer’s disease as a significant contributing factor, said Heather Jarrell, the chief medical examiner for the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator.
Arakawa likely died about a week earlier, on Feb. 11, of hantavirus, a potentially fatal virus transmitted by mice. Both died of natural causes, which include heart disease, stroke, cancer, respiratory failure, infections and age-related complications.
Read the full article. Their dog apparently died of thirst.
1. BREAKING
New Mexico’s Chief Medical Examiner says that Gene Hackman most likely died on February 18 due to heart disease, with advanced Alzheimer’s disease being a contributing factor.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social) March 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
2. His wife, Betsy, predeceased him, with the Medical Examiner placing her death on February 11, which means he lived with her body in the house for a week.
The cause of death for Betsy Hackman is hantavirus, a very rare but serious virus spread by rodents.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social) March 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
3. The pills found around Betsy Hackman’s body were for thyroid medication and were not the cause of her death.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social) March 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM