# Gene Hackman and wife found dead, and dog **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [February 27, 2025, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-hackman-and-wife-found-dead-and-dog/1014861 "2025-02-27T08:27:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 23
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-hackman-and-wife-found-dead-and-dog/1014861/441 "2025-03-19T17:39:47Z")
Argh. Celebrity Death’s on Cafe Society generally do not devolve into legal issues over wills and lawsuits. And (no pun intended) I’m guilty of it too as I asked if his wife was the only one in his will, and she died first (and since then I’ve read she had charity plans unfortunately not expressed in legal documents) and Hackman might not have preferred the son who got the high-priced lawyer and this as $85 million tends to do (esp. to estate lawyers who take a cut) this is a legal battle. Estate Lawyers aren’t the stuff of Great Debates on the Dope. I only meekly ask that this bummer thread continue on FQ. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-hackman-and-wife-found-dead-and-dog/1014861/442 "2025-03-19T18:02:13Z")
And so I did so: [Gene Hackman's Estate Lawsuites](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-hackmans-estate-lawsuites/1015831) ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-hackman-and-wife-found-dead-and-dog/1014861/443 "2025-03-19T18:34:55Z")
Flagged my FQ thread to the mods for closure. Right now it’s all about gossip. Division of Kingdoms is ACT I of King Lear, and we do not yet have the facts. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-hackman-and-wife-found-dead-and-dog/1014861/444 "2025-03-28T15:22:07Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Tomorrow, we’ll be setting up the spring garden. My mother, in her 80s, is still working part time, My mother and I had lunch at a nice restaurant in downtown Portland. Our server was Kyoko, a woman my mother’s age (mid '80s) who told us she was witness to the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima. She was a most wonderful person to meet. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-hackman-and-wife-found-dead-and-dog/1014861/445 "2025-04-15T22:11:40Z")
Betsy Arakawa’s death is now officially listed as due to hantavirus. > **[Dead rodents found on Gene Hackman’s property by health department investigators](https://www.firstalert4.com/2025/04/15/dead-rodents-found-gene-hackmans-property-by-health-department-investigators/?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=organicclicks&tbref=hp)** > > Hackman's wife died from hantavirus, a rare disease caused by exposure to rodents, before her husband died, according to a medical examiner's report. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2025, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-hackman-and-wife-found-dead-and-dog/1014861/446 "2025-04-18T16:33:09Z")
> **[Even Investigators Not Sure Why They Keep Releasing Details Of Gene Hackman’s...](https://theonion.com/even-investigators-not-sure-why-they-keep-releasing-details-of-gene-hackmans-death/)** > > SANTA FE, NM—Appearing visibly giddy as they released to the public a new barrage of information about the deceased couple’s living conditions, personal lives, and private health issues, local authorities announced Friday that even they were not sure... ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-hackman-and-wife-found-dead-and-dog/1014861/447 "2025-04-18T16:37:18Z")
No kidding! I thought it passed the point of good taste a while back, but the “messy house” photos clinched it for me. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-hackman-and-wife-found-dead-and-dog/1014861/448 "2025-04-18T16:37:55Z")
> [@](#): > > “We have no idea why, but every time we find a new detail about their tragic passing, I’m like, ‘Oh my God, we have to tell everyone!’” said Ben Chavez of the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office, admitting that he felt compelled by a force he couldn’t understand to continue painting a timeline of the couple’s last moments, despite investigators having known for nearly two months that both died of natural causes with no evidence of foul play. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-hackman-and-wife-found-dead-and-dog/1014861/449 "2025-04-18T16:47:56Z")
If I suddenly died this morning, the photos of my house would be interesting. I guess the new slogan should be “Llive Fast, Die Young, Leave a beautiful house”? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-hackman-and-wife-found-dead-and-dog/1014861/450 "2025-04-18T19:31:08Z")
Rich people are assumed to have staff to ensure their every mess is cleaned up as it hits the floor. Reality is more mundane. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2025, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-hackman-and-wife-found-dead-and-dog/1014861/451 "2025-04-18T20:28:54Z")
I’m busy trying to leave a beautiful corpse. P’shaw. Clean house? Who cares? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-hackman-and-wife-found-dead-and-dog/1014861.md?page=22)