Gene Hackman: buried together with his wife

Gene Hackman (1930-2025) and Betsy Arakawa (1959-2025) were found dead in their house in Santa Fe, New Mexico on February 26. The actor and his wife were recently buried according to a media report.

The two -time Oscar winner and the pianist were buried as part of a small commemoration, like. His three children, son Christopher and his daughters Elizabeth and Leslie were therefore among the guests of the private funeral service, which is said to have recently taken place in Santa Fe.

The find of the two corpses in February had caused a lot of speculation. The official cause of death Hackmans and Arakawas, who have been lived on their property for years, was announced in March. During a press conference it was announced that Arakawa was last seen alive in public on February 11th. The authorities initially assumed that this was also their day of death. Later, the responsible sheriff explained that Arakawa had probably called a medical service on February 12th.

Hackman, on the other hand, probably died on February 18. The actor’s pacemaker recorded his heartbeat for the last time. According to the forensic medicine, his wife died as a result of an infection with the Hantavirus, the Hollywood star of the consequences of heart disease. Hackman, known from the western “merciless”, could not have noticed or forgot the death of his wife that signs of an “advanced Alzheimer’s disease” had been proven.

Hackman has been married to the much younger concert pianist Betsy Arakawa since December 1991. In 1986 the star had divorced after around 30 years of marriage from Faye Maltese (1928-2017), his first wife.