Gene Hackman had "severe" heart disease and Alzheimer's disease when he died, according to his autopsy report. His wife died of hantavirus infection.

Gene Hackman was found dead at his home in New Mexico alongside his wife Betsy Arakawa and their dog Zinna, with advanced Alzheimer's believed to have contributed to his death

Harrowing new details have emerged following Gene Hackman's wife's autopsy two months after she died from a rat-borne virus. The autopsy has found the concert pianist had fluid accumulation in her chest,