Actor Gene Hackman died of natural causes, New Mexico’s chief medical examiner said today. His wife, Betsy Arakawa, died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome and likely passed before her husband. Follow for live news updates.

The mysterious death of actor Gene Hackman and his wife rattled and baffled the Santa Fe community. New details emerge about the couple's final hours.

Gene Hackman believed his wife Betsy Arakawa was the reason he lived as long as he did, according to one of the actor’s longtime friends. “She was very protective of him,” Tom Allin recently told The New York Times of Arakawa,

Betsy Arakawa was a pillar of strength for Gene Hackman. And their love endured right up to the very end when they were tragically found dead last month. In a new interview with The New York Times, Tom Allin reflected on how much Arakawa meant to the Superman star,

In a heartbreaking update, she explained that it was ‘quite possible’ that Hackman was unaware that Arakawa had