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According to the sheriff’s office news release, Hackman and Arakawa’s bodies were taken to the Office of the Medical Investigator.
“An autopsy was performed,” the release reads. “Initial findings noted no external trauma to either individual. Carbon monoxide and toxicology tests were requested for both individuals. The manner and cause of death has not been determined. The official results of the autopsy and toxicology reports are pending.”
Though originally born in San Bernardino, Calif., Hackman had called New Mexico home for decades. After working in Santa Fe on a few movies, The French Connection star told Architectural Digest in 1990, he found the city “had a kind of magic in it,” and it became a beloved place for both him and Arakawa.
“I paint and draw, and my wife is a classical pianist,” he told Charlie Rose in 1999. “It has a lot of cultural opportunities.”
According to The New York Times, Hackman met Arakawa in the mid-80s while she was working at a fitness center in California. He was previously married to Faye Maltese, mom to his two daughters and his son Christopher.
Hackman and Maltese separated in 1982 and divorced four years later. But unlike his character in 1985’s Twice in a Lifetime, “I did not leave my real-life wife for a younger woman,” he once told Florida’s Sun Sentinel. “We just drifted apart.”
And the Unforgiven alum admitted navigating a relationship in the limelight was no easy feat.
“We lost sight of each other,” he continued. “When you work in this business, marriage takes a great deal of work and love.”
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