Legendary actor Gene Hackman’s personal collection, complete with annotated pieces of “cinematic memorabilia” and even three of his Golden Globe awards, will be auctioned off after he left nothing to his three children in his will.

Hackman, 95, and his wife Betsy Arakawa, 65, were found dead in their New Mexico home in February. Their bodies were both in similar states of decomposition and had likely been dead for weeks before a longtime contractor and friend of the late actor found them . 4

Arakawa was killed by the Hantavirus , which she likely caught from one of the many rodent nests in their hoarder home . Hackman, who was in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s and incapable of caring for himself, died a week after his wife, likely with no knowledge that she had pas

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