Gene Hackman Died a Week After Wife Betsy Arakawa, Both of Natural Causes
Hackman died of cardiovascular disease, with Alzheimer’s as a factor as well, 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.