Michael Madsen‘s official cause of death has been determined.
The Kill Bill and Reservoir Dogs actor died from cardiac arrest that was brought on by cardiomyopathy, coronary artery disease and chronic alcoholism, according to a death certificate published by TMZ.The certificate also noted the actor was dealing with thromboembolic disease, a condition where blood clots form in blood vessels and then travel to obstruct another vessel, causing a thromboembolism.
NBC4 Los Angeles reported July 8 that Madsen’s cardiologist said he died from heart failure. The outlet also reported at the time that an autopsy will not be conducted because Madsen’s cardiologist signed his death certificate, and that the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department had closed its investigation into Madsen’s death and listed his death as from natural causes.
Madsen was found dead on July 3 at age 67, after Los Angeles County deputies responded to a 911 call at his Malibu home and discovered him unresponsive. “What we understand is Michael had a cardiac arrest and was found unresponsive in his Malibu home earlier this morning,” Madsen’s manager Ron Smith said in a statement at the time.
Madsen also starred as Jimmy Lennox in Thelma & Louise (1991), Glen Greenwood in Free Willy (1993) and, perhaps most famously, Dominick “Sonny Black” Napolitano in Donnie Brasco (1997).He was married three times: to General Hospital actress Georganne LaPiere (sister of Cher), to actress Jeannine Bisignano, and to estranged wife DeAnna, whom he married in 1996.
