Philip Seymour Hoffman Found Dead

[Seth82]

this was such a great scene from Capote.

[Beantownfan]

Yes, this is a death that brings many emotions and feelings. Anger, sadness, grief, disgust, empathy. It's such a fucking waste. And yes, he obviously was one of those people who was only going to be freed from that demon by death alone. He's free now. May he have found peace at last.

Amen. But damn he had three young kids!

[JadeStar70]

An article said he died at his apartment,....did the kids Mom and kids not live all together with him?? Because he was late in picking up his son, so they could watch the Super Bowl. I read he had dated the Mom for 15 years, but they were not married.

[CornFlakegrl]

Somewhere in here it says that he got his own place after his latest rehab stint. Maybe he fell of the wagon right after rehab and she tossed him.

[Sarzy]

I read that they had split up. He was meant to be picking the kids up on the day he overdosed. I wonder if it wasn't accidental? I guess it would be hard to tell unless he'd injected a huge amount.

edit- he apparently had about 49 bags of heroin in his apartment!

Indeed, authorities searching the fourth floor apartment recovered 49 containers of heroin, almost two dozen used syringes as well as anti-anxiety prescriptions that Hoffman didn't appear to have a script for.According to police sources who spoke to CNN, Hoffman had in his possession, the blood-pressure medication clonidine hydrochloride; the addiction-treatment drug buprenorphine; Vyvanse, a drug used to treat attention-deficit (hyperactivity) disorder; hydroxyzine, which can be used to treat anxiety; and methocarbamol, a muscle relaxer.
Police also discovered several other bags containing white powder.




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[Trixie]

[llamamama]

I've read it's so common for recovering addicts to die during a slip up (and actually had a H.S friend just lose a step-daughter to that actual thing). Recovery lowers ones "tolerance", but the ever reclusive search for the same high as the first time is a deadly, deadly mix.

This is something that we were constantly warned about in AA meetings. There are a ton of pithy statements in AA that get thrown around, but the one that stuck with me and keeps me sober is when people would say at meetings, "My disease is doing push-ups in the parking lot." There are tons of examples of people who after a slip up would pick up at the point in addiction that they would have been at if they hadn't stopped for whatever period of time they did. And often it led to an overdose or killing themselves or somebody else in a DWI. Horrible.

[CornFlakegrl]

With everything he had in his apartment, he may have died from a toxic combo versus straight up overdose.

[BBDSP]

He was just an amazing actor, wasn't he? My favorite role of his (admittedly, I haven't seen anywhere close to all of his work) was in Magnolia.

[McJag]

With that much in his apartment it sounds like he had just given up.

I also read he was supposed to get his kids later & planned on watching the Super Bowl with his son,leaving one poster to say he would never have picked up his kids high and that poster suspected murder.

Whatever,this is just plain sad.

[witchcurlgirl]

The Daily Fail says 49, the local NY papers say 8 bags, 6 were empty. I doubt he was murdered. If someone is a heroin addict they do everything high, because if they aren't high, they're sick.

[mjw]

Philip Seymour Hoffman was clearly prepping to use heroin for the long haul before he died, because we now know ... cops found approximately 50 heroin bags in the NYC apartment.

Law enforcement sources initially put the number of bags at 10 ... but now we know the number is 5 times that. Our sources say a number of the bags were full ... along with a number of unused needles. The upshot ... Hoffman was ready for a heroin binge.

This makes the story about a possible drug deal at an ATM Saturday night even more interesting ... if Hoffman purchased a large quantity of heroin.

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Philip Seymour Hoffman Death: Lethal Heroin-Fentanyl Strain, ATM Surveillance Tape, At Center Of Police Probe

Posted on Feb 3, 2014 @ 5:44AM | By Radar Staff





The entertainment community remained stunned Monday over the death of Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, who was found in his New York City apartment Sunday with a needle in his arm in what officials believed to be a heroin overdose. With that in mind, we’ve got all the latest developments inthe gifted actor’s death, right here on RadarOnline.com.

Authorities Remove Body From Apartment

Officials removed the actor’s body from the Greenwich Village apartment he was found in at 7 p.m. ET Sunday, with a small crowd gathered on Bethune Street to watch the ongoing investigation. The somber crowd made little noise as officials placed a body bag containing the actor’s remains into a medical examiner’s van. As we previously reported, Hoffman’s friend and confidante, screenwriter David Bar Katz, found him in the bathroom when he did not show up for a visit with his kids earlier in the day.


Bad Batch?

Multiple reports Monday claimed that police were investigating if Hoffman was felled by a toxic strain of heroin making its’ rounds through the East Coast. Eight empty glassine bags with distinct emblems (Ace of Spades, Ace of Hearts), which officials are testing, were recovered from the death scene. Police said the bags (which also have been tied to heroin strains dubbed “Bud Ice,” “Income Tax” and “Theraflu”) — have been linked to a particularly deadly strain of heroin that’s been spiked with the powerful opiate fentanyl. The heroin-fentanyl combo has been tied to premature deaths in Pittsburgh, Maryland, and more than 20 overdoses in Rhode Island last month alone. A law enforcement source told Fox News that officials are investigating if the actor “had [overdosed on] the bad batch going around.”

Toxic Transaction

Police Monday were investigating a lead from a witness who said he saw Hoffman taking money out of an ATM Saturday around 8 p.m. in the West Village, then giving it to two men carrying messenger bags, Fox reported. The witness said that Hoffman, who was reportedly out with pals earlier in the night grabbing a low key dinner, was “very sweaty” and looked “like s*it” at the time he saw him. Cops are moving to acquire surveillance footage from the cash machine, which had a camera perched atop it.

Family Issues

Hoffman is survived by three children (son Cooper, 10; and daughters Tallulah, 7, and Willa, 5) with his girlfriend of 15 years, designer Mimi O’Donnell, but the two had parted ways as of late. One police source toldMail Online, “It is my understanding that Mr. Hoffman and his girlfriend were separated” at the time of his death Sunday. Hoffman, who completed a 10-day rehab stay last spring after more than two decades of sobriety, was reportedly slated to visit with his kids early Sunday, and his absence led his pal to make the grim discovery. Hoffman’s family said in a statement, “We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Phil and appreciate the outpouring of love and support we have received from everyone.”

Tragic Foreshadowing

In a 2006 chat with 60 minutes, the actor was candid about his past battles with substance abuse when discussing a rehab stint he’d underwent in his early 20s. “I did all that stuff,” Hoffman said of his predilections, adding that he entered treatment when he “got panicked for [his] life” after abusing. “It really was, it was just that.” Elsewhere in the exchange, Hoffman (who first got in TV in his mid-20s) said that he felt he would have succumbed to his drug demons earlier in his life had he made it big at a young age. “I always think, God, I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they’re beautiful and famous and rich — I’m like, ‘My God, I’d be dead’ — 19, beautiful, famous and rich, that would be it, you know … I think back at that time and think if I had the money, that kind of money.”


Lost Treasure

Many of the tributes that poured in a news spread of the versatile actor’s death focused on his considerable talents. As well as his numerous runs on Broadway, he leaves behind a catalogue of films that showcased his brilliance in front of the camera. Among the performances many mourners cited included his Academy Award-winning turn in the titular role in 2005′s Capote; closeted gay porn cameraman Scotty in 1997′s Boogie Nights; enigmatic religious leader Lancaster Dodd in 2012′s The Master. The busy actor solidified his resume with memorable roles in films like 1992′s Scent of a Woman, and 1998′s The Big Lebowski, 2011′s Moneyball, and 2013′s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. He is expected to posthumously appear in two Hunger Gamessequels due for release the next two winters.

Philip Seymour Hoffman Death: Lethal Heroin-Fentanyl Strain, ATM Surveillance Tape, At Center Of Police Probe | Radar Online

[JadeStar70]

50 bags??? Was he planning on selling the shit, or what??

[stef]

this is so sad. what a terrible loss. my thoughts are with his family & friends, especially his kids.

[twitchy2.0]

The Daily Fail says 49, the local NY papers say 8 bags, 6 were empty.

If I remember math correctly, rounding up does make 49.