Michael Madsen's challenging final years revealed including nasty divorce and young son's tragic suicide
The Kill Bill star was found unresponsive at his Malibu home just months after he filed for divorce from his third wife and three years after the tragic suicide of his son.
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Los Angeles County deputies rushed to Madsen's home in Malibu, California, after getting a 911 call that he was unresponsive.
They said he was dead by the time they arrived, and believed that he died from natural causes. No foul play is suspected.
According to the actor's manager, Madsen died from cardiac arrest.
His death came as a shock, as the Hollywood star was working on many independent film projects when the tragedy struck.
Just months before he collapsed, Madsen celebrated a career highlight by becoming the new face of a cigar company and was pictured on the front page of Hollywood Times.
But amid his professional success, the actor was waging a bitter legal war with his estranged wife DeAnna Madsen after 28 years of marriage.
Madsen filed for divorce from DeAnna in September, court documents show, and the couple had been separated since January 2022.
In the documents, the actor alleged that the two parted ways shortly after their 26-year-old son Hudson died by suicide, People reported at the time.
He blamed his wife for inflaming their son's mental health battle with her "neglect, drinking, and alcoholism" and said they had "irreconcilable differences" in the docs.
The actor even got a domestic violence restraining order against DeAnna.
The filing came one month after Madsen was arrested for battery of a spouse.
His lawyer claimed at the time that he had "confronted" DeAnna and "asked her to leave" their house.
'Michael has shown immense compassion and restraint during this period towards his estranged wife,' his lawyer Perry Wander told The Hollywood Reporter days after the arrest.
'He's definitely not guilty of domestic violence."
Meanwhile, DeAnna accused her estranged partner of "struggling with his own personal issues."
"Myself and our children have been supporting him to the best of our ability. We would request privacy at this time," she told the outlet.
Weeks after the filings were made public, Madsen released an emotional statement on social media, saying that he wished his "wife no harm or embarrassment."
"Losing a child is the hardest and most painful experience that can happen in this world," he wrote.
"I deeply apologize for not correcting this earlier but I love my wife and our other 4 children and have no desire for divorce or blame."
Madsen clarified that his wife has "absolutely nothing to do with what happened to our son" and described the death as a "horrible loss."
"I don't think my son is dead, I think he escaped from a life that didn't make sense anymore," he wrote.
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