Gene Hackman Deserves Privacy In Death As Oscar Winner Had In Life, Court Told In Hearing On Blocking Autopsy Report, Police Bodycam Footage Release

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“Gene and Betsy Hackman’s names, likenesses and images are valuable and need to be protected and is clearly proven out by virtue of the press wanting to get his hands on the documents to exploit them for their own personal profit and gain.

said attorney Kurt Sommer for the estate at a hearing today in New Mexico over releasing materials related to the February deaths of the couple. “This estate has a duty to protect Gene and Betsy’s property, including photographs and videos of their dead bodies,” the Sante Fe lawyer asserted.

The immediate release of the full autopsy reports and footage of the bodies and home of the two-time Oscar winner and his wife BetsyArakawa is at issue in an ongoing hearing Monday in the First Judicial District Court in Sante Fe before Judge Matthew Wilson.

Specifically, whether the temporary restraining order granted by Judge Wilson on March 17 halting public access to autopsy reports by the Office of the Medical Investigator and death investigation reports by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office for the estate and its representative Julia Peters should become an injunction as further matters around the Hackmans are investigated for the family.