Gene Hackman has left money for children in trust, preparation of funerals in progress

While the three children of Gene Hackman did not live nearby in Santa Fe, in New Mexico, and did not necessarily see him that often a new report disputes the idea that they were distant from their 95-year-old father or are preparing for a legal struggle for his 80 million dollars.

In fact, according to the Daily Mail, the legend of the “French connection” and his children were in regular contact before his death in February, although especially by telephone because they lived in states of difference.

According to the Daily Mail. This is because the children said that they were all planned enough via trustees that Hackman set up to protect his assets.

Hackman had the three children at his first marriage to Faye Maltese from 1956 to 1986: Christopher Hackman, 65, and Daughters Leslie Hackman, 62, and Elizabeth Hackman, 58. In 1991, he married Arakawa, a classic pianist, and they finally settled in Santa Fe, where they were active members of the community, with a large line of lolage.

The Daily Mail report occurs one day after a New Mexico judge Matthew Wilson judged that the death files of the death of Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, 65, can be made public. The judge also said that the authorities can free up videos of exposed body camera and other images, although none of the images can show their bodies, reported the Associated Press.

The three children were represented at the hearing on Monday by a lawyer who underlined the trauma they could endure from the public release of certain images of body cameras. A lawyer for the Hackman Family Estate also pleaded for family rights to privacy, claiming that Hackman and Arakawa have taken a lot of trouble staying in Santa Fe and that the right to control the use of their names and their sensations should extend to their succession in death.

The interest of the media for the reports and images of the investigation is due to the strange and tragic whole of circumstances surrounding the death of the couple. They both died in their Santa Fe house of $ 3.8 million, but at separate times and for different reasons. Their bodies also remained unknown for more than a week until February 26, when a handyman and a building entrepreneur, who had worked regularly for them for 16 years, were concerned not to be in contact and decided to visit the property.

The Santa Fe County Sheriff department has never suspected a bad game, but still launched an investigation due to the unusual circumstances of the couple’s death.

The medical examiner’s office finally concluded that Hackman probably died on February 18 or around February 18 from cardiovascular disease, with an “advanced” case of Alzheimer’s disease as a contributing factor.

But it seems that Hackman was alone in the house with his wife’s body for almost a week after his sudden death of Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. At one point, Arakawa had become infected with the potentially fatal Hantavirus, which is transported by mice or rats which often live in hangars or attics. It is believed that she died on February 12 or around February 12, after having managed to bring Hackman to a doctor’s office for an echocardiogram.

Meanwhile, the body of their 12-year-old beloved dog, Zinna, was found dead in a box, where she had probably been placed for her safety when she recovered from surgery. The Associated Press reported that Zinna probably died of dehydration and famine after the death of Arakawa. The other two dog dogs were found alive on the property.

Adams of the Daily Mail also said that people should not read too much in the reports that no one had yet claimed the bodies of Hackman and Arakawa, a month after their retirement.

“I bring together the delay is not unusual and the preparations for family funerals are in progress,” wrote Adams, who spent a week at Santa Fe and spoke to people who knew the couple and their family.

In his report, Adams found no evidence suggesting that the double winner of the Oscars has spent his last years as recluse in his house in a closed community, guarded by her youngest protective woman. On the contrary, Adams noted that the co -owner couple was and helped manage a variety of local businesses, including restaurants and interior design stores. They also attended fundraising for local non -profit organizations and attended the “July 4” parties and other local events.

Christopher Hackman also seemed to have played an active role by helping his father manage some of his investments and was with Arakawa’s mother, Yoshie Foster, the day the two learned that she and her father died.

In interviews, Hackman had talked about his regrets to be often absent when his children grew up, but Adams found that his relationship with his children had warmed “considerably” in recent years. The children also talked about their mother-in-law, whom they knew how to take care of their father, added Adams.

There is a strange circumstance in the last months of the couple who should remain unresolved, Adams reported. It has to do with the fact that they were hunted down.

Arakawa’s hairdresser, Christopher Torres, told investigators that his client had been “exhausted” in the weeks preceding his death, expressing his concern to see a man parked outside the door of their neighborhood, then to be followed by him twice.

“An opportunity is when they became White Rock (a neighboring community),” said Torres, according to Fox News. They went to lunch there and the guy followed them (outside their closed community), followed them to White Rock. She said: “Christopher, I am surprised that security was not (knew) how it happened there … because when we left, I noticed that this car had followed us from the residence in White Rock.” “”

The man may have been an unusually obsessive hackman fan because he approached the couple, released a photo file from the actor “Unforgiven” and asked him to sign them. But Arakawa said that she had found this behavior strange, as well as Invasive, because Santa Fe is “not a place of paparazzi”, and the couple is generally not embarrassed by fans. She said that she had told them to the man that he “needed to have more respect”.

Arakawa also said that the man had followed them to another place at another time and offered them a bottle of wine, who said that Akawa said he refused.

Adams reported that the investigators had made efforts to find the mystery man after learning about him, in particular by changing through large video surveillance images. But the police investigation was canceled on March 7 after the autopsy results and showed that the deaths of the couple were due to natural causes.