A longtime friend of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa’s believes the actor would have died “long ago” without his wife by his side. “She was very protective of him,” Tom Allin told the New York Times in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. So as Hollywood was singing the praises of Hackman's performances in the likes of The French Connection, The Conversation and ...

“She was very protective of him,” a friend of Hackman's said of his beloved wife, Betsy Arakawa Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024.

The very private Gene Hackman will be allowed to retain some of that privacy posthumously, at least for a few more weeks. Almost three weeks after the two-time Oscar winner and spouse Betsy Arakawa ...

American actor Gene Hackman, one of the finest performers of his generation, died in February at the age of 95. According to news reports on Friday, Santa Fe, New Mexico officials have determined that ...

Gene Hackman in director William Friedkin's 1971 film "The French Connection." (Courtesy 20th Century-Fox/Photofest) A couple of months ago, the Coolidge Corner ...

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 Fe, ...

Friends who knew Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa are speaking out in the wake of the couple’s shocking deaths. In a lengthy look into the mysterious passing of the actor, 95, and his wife, ...