Whether Gene Hackman or his wife Betsy died first affects their overall estate, according to a legal expert Sharareh Drury is a writer on the Movies team at PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2025 and ...

Gene and Betsy were laid to rest and remembered in a small, private memorial held recently in Santa Fe Gene Hackman died of hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, while his wife ...

Jesse Kesler had years of positive and personal memories from working as a contractor for Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa Hackman. The owner of MudCity Builders, who worked with the ...

Details of Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa's wills reveal they each wanted to leave their estates to each other. In Hackman's will — obtained by USA TODAY from his probate case in Santa ...

Gene Hackman had only been spotted on a few rare appearances throughout the remainder of his life. The Royal Tenenbaums star hung up his hat on his iconic film career at the age of 74, and he died ...