Gene Hackman’s Daughter Leslie Shares Update on Investigation Into Actor, Wife’s “Very Strange” Deaths – E! Online
Gene Hackman’s daughter Leslie Anne Allen is searching for answers.
Hours after the two-time Oscar winner was found dead at 95 in his Santa Fe, New Mexico, home alongside his wife Betsy Arakawa, 64, and one of their dogs, Leslie—the youngest of his three kids with ex-wife Faye Maltese—shared an update on the investigation surrounding their unexplained deaths.
“I think I’m very anxious to find out what happened and I just don’t know how long they had been deceased,” Leslie, 58, told Us Weekly Feb. 27. “[The authorities] don’t know yet either.”
Shortly after the news broke, Santa Fe public information officer Denise Womack Avila shared, in a statement to NBC News, that authorities were called to the couple’s residence around 1:45 p.m. on Feb. 26 after a neighbor called requesting a welfare check. Gene—also dad to Christopher, 65, and daughter Elizabeth, 63—and Betsy’s bodies were identified the next day.
