{"id":11360,"date":"2025-03-08T11:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T11:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/gene-hackman-lost-his-wife-and-caregiver-and-spent-7-days-alone\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T11:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T11:12:07","slug":"gene-hackman-lost-his-wife-and-caregiver-and-spent-7-days-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/gene-hackman-lost-his-wife-and-caregiver-and-spent-7-days-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene Hackman Lost His Wife and Caregiver, and Spent 7 Days Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Before Gene Hackman faded from public view in his adopted hometown of Santa Fe, N.M., the locals would see the aging movie star on the golf course or in his truck or walking his beloved dogs in the enchanted western city, amid the mesquite, juniper and pinyon pine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His wife, Betsy Arakawa, was often alongside him. There was much about his life that she managed. She set up the golf games with his friends. She policed his diet, given the heart trouble that had dogged him for decades. She diluted his wine with soda water. She typed and edited the novels he wrote by hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She also apparently took on the role of sole caregiver as he endured the devastating effects of Alzheimer\u2019s. Thirty years his junior, she must have planned to see him to his end, in their home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And so it was all the more jarring on Friday when authorities in New Mexico revealed more dark turns in the mystery of how the couple died last month in their four-bedroom house, hidden by trees at the end of a luxurious cul-de-sac east of the city.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Officials said the couple died of natural causes, he of heart disease and she of a rare viral infection. But it was Ms. Arakawa \u2014 the caregiver, lover, protector \u2014 who died first, perhaps on Feb. 11, leaving Mr. Hackman, 95 years old with advanced Alzheimer\u2019s, alone in the house for days. He is believed to have died a week later, on Feb. 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Their decomposing bodies were not discovered for yet another eight days, when a maintenance worker called a security guard to the house after no one came to the door. Emergency workers found Ms. Arakawa, 65, on the floor of a bathroom near a medicine bottle and spilled pills. Zinna, one of their three dogs, was dead in a crate in a closet. The body of Mr. Hackman was discovered in a mud room, with slippers and a cane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">New Mexico\u2019s chief medical examiner said on Friday that Alzheimer\u2019s disease was a contributing factor in Mr. Hackman\u2019s death. Ms. Arakawa died of hantarivus, which is contracted through exposure to excrement from rodents, often the deer mouse in New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The exact details of what happened in the house over the course of that week may never be known. Friends and neighbors said that the couple had increasingly receded into the private confines of their hillside house since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the timeline presented Friday raises the terrifying possibility that Mr. Hackman, a Marine veteran and actor of consummate precision and control, had spent days in the presence of his fallen wife, too disoriented or feeble to call for help \u2014 trapped, essentially, in the handsome, secluded home that had been his reward for a life toiling in the limelight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Hackman was drawn to Santa Fe in the late 1980s, shortly after his divorce from his first wife. He had already earned an Oscar for his starring role in the 1971 thriller, \u201cThe French Connection.\u201d Another Oscar, as a supporting actor in the 1992 western \u201cUnforgiven,\u201d would come later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His father, who abandoned the family when Mr. Hackman was 13, was a pressman for the local newspaper. His mother was a waitress. But Mr. Hackman had a bohemian streak, and he was drawn to Santa Fe\u2019s stunning natural landscape and the artists the landscape inspired. He would become one of them, spending much of the second half of his life painting, sculpting and writing fiction in Santa Fe, far from the trophy homes of Beverly Hills that many celebrities of his caliber inhabit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Arakawa was a classical pianist, born in Hawaii. She met Mr. Hackman in Los Angeles at a fitness center where she had a part-time job. He had forgotten his entry card, and she refused to let him in, according to Rodney Hatfield, a friend. They married in 1991. Friends said that the relationship seemed natural, despite the age difference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThat part never came to mind because they seemed equal in so many ways,\u201d said a friend, Susan Contreras. \u201cShe was a personality unto herself.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The life they settled into in Santa Fe was both charmed and strikingly normal. Architectural Digest <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.architecturaldigest.com\/gallery\/gene-hackman-santa-fe-home-slideshow\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">featured<\/a> an earlier hilltop house they owned outside of town, built to their specifications in an elegant Southwestern style. Mr. Hackman joined the board of the Georgia O\u2019Keeffe Museum, one of the city\u2019s storied cultural gems. They invested in a restaurant, Jinja, which displayed Mr. Hackman\u2019s paintings and named a house mai tai cocktail in his honor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But others remembered a man who often seemed to fit the mold of the Everyman he so often played onscreen. Helen Dufreche, a former neighbor, recalled meeting Mr. Hackman for the first time about a decade ago. He was wearing a baseball cap and had pulled up alongside her in a truck to compliment her dachshunds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhat cute puppies!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Tom Allin, a longtime friend of Mr. Hackman\u2019s, said Ms. Arakawa had always served as something of a gatekeeper for her famous husband. Over a 20-year friendship with Mr. Hackman, Mr. Allin never recalled speaking to him over the phone or emailing with him. He would always set up golf games or visits through Ms. Arakawa. Uninterested in technology, Mr. Hackman did not have a cellphone that Mr. Allin knew about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cShe was very protective of him,\u201d Mr. Allin said, adding that Mr. Hackman seemed happy to have his wife run things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He recalled Mr. Hackman saying that he would have been dead \u201clong ago\u201d without his wife taking care of him and ensuring that he ate healthily.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In January 2020, just before the pandemic, Mr. Allin said, he saw his friend for his 90th birthday in Islamorada, Fla. He recalls Ms. Arakawa mixing soda water into his wine. \u201cShe just really looked after him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He also said that he could sense that Mr. Hackman was declining. The couple had a tradition where Mr. Hackman would cook dinner each year for Ms. Arakawa\u2019s birthday. In 2023, she came home expecting a meal, Mr. Allin recalled, but Mr. Hackman had forgotten their ritual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Like many older Americans, Mr. Hackman retreated indoors during the Covid crisis to stay safe. In recent years, neighbors in Santa Fe Summit, the gated community where the couple lived, said they had seen no sign of the couple, except for their trash cans on the side of the road, waiting to be picked up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During Friday\u2019s news conference, Sheriff Adan Mendoza of Santa Fe County said that investigators had determined that on Feb. 9, a Sunday, Ms. Arakawa had picked up Zinna from a veterinarian after the dog underwent a procedure, which could explain why Zinna was being kept in a crate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Feb. 11, perhaps hours before she died, Ms. Arakawa emailed her massage therapist in the morning and then went to a grocery store in the afternoon. She was also captured on surveillance video making a brief stop at a pharmacy. Sheriff Mendoza said he believed she wore a mask that day while in public, which she often did to avoid bringing any illnesses back to her husband, friends said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Arakawa stopped by a local pet food store later that afternoon and then returned to her neighborhood around 5:15 p.m., the sheriff said. She did not respond to any emails after that day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Asked whether the couple had anyone taking care of Mr. Hackman, Sheriff Mendoza said, \u201cAt this point, there\u2019s no indication that there was a caretaker at the home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">James Everett, who lived part-time in the neighborhood for about five years, said in an interview last week that he found it unusual that the couple did not have any caretakers, given Mr. Hackman\u2019s age. \u201cI know when my dad was 95, 96, 97, 98, we had a live-in cook and maid for him,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m surprised they didn\u2019t have them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Another neighbor, Robert Cecil, wondered whether the couple\u2019s desire for privacy was, in the end, a \u201cweakness\u201d that contributed to the horror that befell them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Mr. Hatfield, Mr. Hackman\u2019s longtime friend, said that Mr. Hackman loved Santa Fe because he it allowed him to live a life that was not always that of a star. \u201cI know that Gene did not like the role of celebrity,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was pretty obvious.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Another friend, Stuart Ashman, said that solitude was often the goal for people who migrated to Santa Fe. \u201cPeople come here as a way to hide out,\u201d he said. \u201cThey certainly did.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     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