He was 33 years old. Actress Brittany Murphy's death hit like a bombshell in December , when she died at A coroner said the actress died from a combination of pneumonia, an iron deficiency and multiple drug intoxication.
Her husband, Simon Monjack, died five months later of acute pneumonia and severe anemia, "just like Brittany," the coroner said. Her father is contesting those findings and questioning whether she was poisoned.
James Dean's death is part of his legend. The actor's life and career were cut tragically short on September 30, , when the year-old got into a collision while driving his Porsche Spyder on a California highway. He died from a gunshot wound to the head, which was ruled a suicide.
But many still believe that Reeves was murdered. The August 5, , death of Marilyn Monroe is still shrouded in mystery. The screen siren died in her Los Angeles home at the age of The official cause of death was an overdose, but that hasn't stemmed the tide of persistent theories that something more nefarious led to Monroe's untimely passing.
Guitarist Brian Jones, a founding member of the Rolling Stones, was found dead in a swimming pool in July after a party at his home. The hard-living year-old's passing was ruled death by misadventure, yet theories abounded that he'd been the victim of a crime. In , police in Sussex, England, began to look into his death once again. The gruesome murder of actress Sharon Tate -- along with four others -- left a mark on pop culture that still appears today. Tate, who was married to director Roman Polanski, was 26 years old and eight months pregnant when she was murdered, an act committed by members of the Manson Family.
Jimi Hendrix is another legend who died young, passing away at 27 in September According to Rolling Stone , police said at the time that it was a drug overdose and that he'd died of suffocation in his own vomit.
We can only imagine what the rock star could have gone on to create, given the incredible influence he had on music in the short span of time he was internationally known.
Musician and poet Jim Morrison of The Doors was found dead in the bathtub of his Paris apartment in , also at the age of But the cause of his death has been a hot topic of debate: His passing was officially due to natural causes, but a book fueled theories that there was a cover-up.
As a master of martial arts and an action star, Bruce Lee was reaching the zenith of his career when he died at 32 in July He was in Hong Kong at the time of his death, which was blamed on a brain edema caused by an allergic reaction to painkillers.
His sudden and shocking passing came just a month before the premiere of his classic film, "Enter the Dragon. Elvis Presley's death at 42 in August left some fans so shocked, they refused to believe it. Hopeful conspiracy theorists swore that the King was still alive and well in the years following his collapse in his bathroom at Graceland.
Although Elvis' death was ruled to be the result of an irregular heartbeat, there were accusations that prescription drug abuse was a factor. The final chapter in the lives of Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen is one of music's most famous. In , journalist Janet Fife-Yeomans published a book about Heath Ledger, in which she revealed that the Joker actor suffered from severe depression for years. After the separation from actress Michelle Williams 40 , with whom he has a daughter, these bouts of depression broke out again, the award-winning author claimed.
Fife-Yeomans also said she found out about Ledger's alleged depression from conversations with the actor's relatives and friends. Kim Ledger had apparently often worried about his son's unstable state, but Heath's sister Kate later denied that he was ever seriously depressed. The heartthrob was not the only member of the family who apparently suffered from mental health issues. Uncle Haydn is also said to have been depressed.
This oft-discussed conspiracy theory will be resurrected by the legion of his fans as a German documentary, Heath Ledger: Too Young To Die, shows chilling excerpts from a diary that the actor maintained while preparing for his Oscar-winning role. Many maintain that it was Ledger's obsession with the character that eventually led to him overdosing on painkillers in The Australian actor died on January 22, He was To prepare for the role, Ledger locked himself in a hotel room for a month and experimented for what will turn out to be one of the most defining negative characters of all times.
In an interview to Empire in , the actor said, "It's a combination of reading all the comic books I could that were relevant to the script and then just closing my eyes and meditating on it. The drugs are the generic names for the OxyContin painkiller, the anti-anxiety drugs Valium and Xanax, and the sleep aids Restoril and Unisom.
Ledger had been complaining of sleeplessness prior to his death and was reported to have been suffering from stress, due in part to a heavy workload and the recent break-up of his two-year relationship with fellow actor Michelle Williams. Police found six different types of prescription drugs in his rented New York home.
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