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Gene Hackman's Rat Plague Revealed: How Iconic Hollywood Star's Home Was Hoarder Horror Show Before Sad Dementia Death

Source: Santa Fe Sheriff's Office

April 16 2025, Published 9:38 a.m. ET

Bodycam footage from inside Gene Hackman's hoarder home has exposed the harrowing living conditions of the Alzheimer's hit Oscar-winner.

Breaking Celebrity News can reveal newly released police videos from inside his New Mexico property, where the actor and wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead in February, also showed the couple's dog found just feet from his partner's body.

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gene hackman home
Source: Santa Fe Sheriff's Office

Hackman's home was cluttered with various objects.

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The sides of a sink are also seen in the footage littered with toiletries and bottles of medication.

And what appears to be a bathtub is filled to the brim with boxes, books and documents.

Cops walked through the kitchen as well as private bedrooms and miscellaneous rooms, which were shockingly shown to have been completely cluttered with dog crates, beds, books, documents and boxes.

One deputy could be heard in the footage insinuating that law enforcement had been told the couple were "very private people, like very".

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gene hackman bodycam footage.
Source: Santa Fe Sheriff's Office

Clothing was scattered in and out of closets.

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Clothes are also seen piled up high in various rooms, with still-bagged dry cleaning hung up and what appears to be dirty laundry tossed in a mountainous heap.

Arakawa, 65, was found to have died on February 11 from a rare rodent disease called hantavirus pulmonary syndrome — a week before the Hollywood legend, 95, passed away.

In one walk-in closet, a pet crate was found containing the remains of the couple's other dog, a 12-year-old Australian Kelpie mix.

Deputies also walked to the side of the home where Hackman's body was tragically found.

One deputy is heard saying: "It looks like he was trying to go outside."

The bodycam footage additionally shows deputies opening doors and windows to air out the one, with one saying that it "smells like gas."