Though gone, Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa’s love will live on.
The couple, aged 95 and 64, were found dead in their Santa Fe, New Mexico, home alongside their dog on Feb. 26, the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to NBC News.
Despite the heartbreaking circumstances of their communal deaths, the Sheriff’s office shared in their statement that “foul play is not suspected as a factor” in the couple’s passing, though an investigation remains active and ongoing.
The couple began dating in the mid 1980s after Arakawa and Hackman—who had previously been married to Faye Maltese, with whom he shared three children—met at a California fitness center where Arakawa had been working part-time. They married in 1991.
Hackman, for his part, had been candid about the dissolution of his first marriage to Faye, which was plagued by separations, per The New York Times, before an eventual divorce in 1986.
