Autopsy Report Says Cocaine Contributed to Billy Mays Death
Posted on Aug 07, 2009 @ 04:11PM - 12 comments
Infomerical king, Billy Mays, didn’t just die from heart disease, RadarOnline.com has learned. It was helped along by some pretty strong drugs.
According to the autopsy report, “cocaine use” is listed as a contributing cause of death—along with hypertensive and atherosclerotic heart disease.
Official documents show that Vicodin, Oxycodone, Xanax, Valium, benzoylecgonine (byproduct of cocaine) Ethanol—alcohol—and temazepam (anti-anxiety) were also in Mays’ system.
A Hillsborough County, Florida, press release obtained by RadarOnline.com today stated, "from the presence of metabolites of cocaine and the absence of cocaine itself, it was concluded that Mr. Mays used cocaine in the few days prior to his death but not immediately prior to death."
Mays died in his sleep on June 28 at his home in Florida. Tampa police say his wife found him unresponsive and a fire crew pronounced him dead at 7:45 a.m. The previous day, Mays had hit his head while returning home on a plane. He later told his wife he didn’t feel very well before going to bed.
Mays was best known as the bearded, loud mouthed television pitchman behind infomercials including Oxyclean and Orange Glo. He was 50.
Coroner: Heart Disease Cause Of Billy Mays' Death
Posted on Jun 30, 2009 @ 07:53AM - Add a comment
Ace TV pitchman Billy Mays' Sunday death at 50 was caused by a pulmonary embolism and not the side effects of a bumpy plane landing, Hillsborough County Medical Examiner Vernard Adams said Monday.
Mays "had an enlarged heart, a thickening of the wall of the ventricle which takes blood to the heart," Adams said.
Experts in the field pointed to the death of the vibrant spokesman as a cautionary tale for others to learn from.
