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Gene Hackman’s Family Guide: Meet the Late Actor’s Children and Wives

Gene Hackman welcomed three children with ex-wife Faye Maltese before he moved on with late wife Betsy Arakawa

Luis Guerra/The Grosby Group/MEGAThe Oscar winner became a father for the first time in 1960 when he and then-wife Faye Maltese welcomed son Christopher Allen Hackman. “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our father, Gene Hackman, and his wife, Betsy,” Elizabeth and Leslie said in a statement to Us Weekly. While Elizabeth shared to TMZ that the family suspected that Gene and Arakawa died from carbon monoxide poisoning, an official cause of death has yet to be determined.

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