Who was Gene Hackman’s wife, Betsy Arakawa? All about the classical pianist

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were found dead inside their Santa Fe, New Mexico home on Wednesday.The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office opened an investigation into the deaths Thursday after saying that “foul play is not suspected as a factor.” The cause of their deaths has not been determined yet.Per the sheriff’s office, a neighbor called authorities to carry out a welfare check, which led to police showing up to an address on Old Sunset Trail in Hyde Park.The two-time Oscar winner, known for the films “The French Connection,” “Superman” and “Bonnie and Clyde,” was 95.

Arakawa, who was 63, had been married to the actor since 1991.Hackman opened up about death during an interview with Larry King in 2004.“I have the normal fear of passing away,” he said on “Larry King Live” at the time. “I want to make sure that my wife and my family are taken care of.

Other than that, I don’t have a lot of fears.”Here’s everything you need to know about Betsy Arakawa.Arakawa, who was born in Hawaii, had a decades-long career as a classical pianist.

In her later years in life, she co-owned of a Santa Fe-based home furnishing business.Arakawa met her future husband in the mid 1980s at a gym in California where she worked part-time, according to the New York Times.The couple got married in 1991.Hackman once denied that he left his first wife, Faye Maltese, whom he was married to from 1956 to 1986, to be with Arakawa. (Maltese died in 2017).“By the way, I did not leave my real-life wife for a younger woman” he said in an interview with the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. “We just drifted apart.