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How Gene Hackman's wife was being tailed by a creepy stalker before they both died, as told by one of the key witnesses. GUY ADAMS reveals truth about final days and inside story of family rift
One morning in December, Betsy Arakawa helped her elderly husband Gene Hackman into their truck and set off for White Rock, a small town 45 minutes from their hilltop home near Santa Fe.
News of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa’s deaths first broke on February 26 when Jesse Kessler, a handyman and building contractor who’d worked regularly for them for roughly 16 years, grew concerned that they had not been in touch and decided to visit the property. Asked how he spent his time in the town, which has a vibrant art scene and is home to celebrities including Robert Redford, Shirley MacLaine, and Game Of Thrones author George R. R. Martin, Hackman told one interviewer: ‘I paint, I draw. Lanham had a tear in his eyes this week recalling the happy times they spent together, golfing at Hackman’s local club, Las Campanas, or hanging out in the restaurant where the Hollywood star would pose for souvenir photos for tuxedo-clad high school kids on prom night and generously foot the bill for diners celebrating special occasions, ‘because that’s Gene’.
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