Betsy Arakawa, the wife of the late Gene Hackman, died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, New Mexico officials said Friday.

Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome is a rare but potentially dangerous disease. It can infect humans through contact with rodents.

Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman died after his wife and possibly didn’t know she lay dead in their New Mexico home for a ...

Oscar winning actor Gene Hackman, 95, and his wife, 63, were tragically found dead at their New Mexico home alongside one of ...

Betsy Arakawa, Gene Hackman's devoted wife, passed away from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome one week before Hackman himself ...

A longtime friend of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa’s believes the actor would have died “long ago” without his wife by his side. “She was very protective of him,” Tom Allin told the New York Times in ...

Heartbreaking details have emerged from Gene Hackman's final days on Earth.

This weekend, authorities confirmed that Hackman died from hypertensive atherosclerosis cardiovascular disease, with ...

Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa might have seemed like an unlikely match with around 30 years of age gap; but the duo gave major couple goals.After the couple was recently found dead in their ...

Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman, 95, and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, 64, were found dead in their New Mexico home, alongside ...

Oscar winner Gene Hackman believed his wife Betsy Arakawa, who was apparently his sole caregiver, was the reason he lived as ...

Mike Bedigan, The Independent Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman died after his wife and possibly didn’t know she lay dead in their New Mexico home for ...