A representative for the estate of the late actor Gene Hackman filed a legal petition on Tuesday asking the court to prevent the autopsy and investigative records related to the deaths of Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, from becoming public.
Hackman, 95, and Arakawa, 65, were found dead in their Santa Fe home on Feb. 26 after a maintenance worker came to the house and alerted the police. Authorities ruled last week that Hackman died of Alzheimer’s disease and heart failure a week after his wife died of hantavirus, a rare infection typically spread by rodents.
