Gene Hackman’s estate asks court to block release of death investigation records

FILE – Actor Gene Hackman, winner of Best Supporting Actor at academy awards in March 1993. (AP Photo, File)

A representative for the estate of actor Gene Hackman is seeking to block the public release of autopsy and investigative reports related to the recent deaths of the actor and his wife Betsy Arakawa.

The petition especially sought to block the release of photographs and police body-camera video after the couple’s partially mummified bodies were discovered at their New Mexico home last month.