Gene Hackman Honored After Death

“There were no apparent signs of foul play,” Mendoza said Feb. 28. “There is no surveillance, as we know of right now, in the interior of the residence or the exterior of the residence, that is going to help us determine a timeline or events that happened.”

He added, “We’ll be analyzing cell phone data, phone calls, text messages, events, photos in the cell phone, to try to piece a timeline together.”

Hackman—who was in “good health” before his passing, according to his daughter Leslie Anne Hackman—had previously been recognized at the Oscars with nominations in 1968 for Bonnie and Clyde, 1971 for I Never Sang for My Father and 1989 for Mississippi Burning, in addition to his two wins in 1972 and 1993. 

The first time he took home a trophy, he thanked his then-wife Faye Maltese, who he was married to from 1956 to 1986 before tying the knot with Arakawa in 1991. 

“And last, a young lady who I met in New York many years ago, Miss Felippa Maltese, and she brought me uptown,” he said onstage. “Thank you.”