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"Entwistle died in a hotel room at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on 27 June 2002 one day before the scheduled first show of The Who's 2002 US tour. He had gone to bed that night with a stripper, who woke at 10am to find Entwistle cold and unresponsive. The Las Vegas medical examiner determined that death was due to a heart attack induced by an undetermined amount of cocaine."
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Although it was not enough to cause death by overdose, the coroner, Lester Maddrell, concluded that the effect of the cocaine on a pre-existing but undiagnosed heart condition had been enough to kill Entwistle.
The only witness at the hearing, which was not attended by any of Entwistle's family or friends, was Jeremy Uff, a consultant histopathologist at Gloucestershire royal hospital, who said that reports from medical examiners in the US showed the 20 cigarettes a day musician was suffering from severe ischaemic heart disease, which stopped blood flowing properly. Toxicology tests showed only a very low level of alcohol but "significant but not grossly elevated" levels of cocaine in his blood.
Dr Uff said that Alexander Forrest, of Sheffield University's department of forensic pathology, concluded that Entwistle had taken the drug three or four hours before his death. But the amount found in his body would not have killed him if his heart had been healthy. "It is likely that the use of a small amount of cocaine by someone with compromised coronary arteries can be associated with sudden death," Dr Uff said. Mr Maddrell, the coroner, concluded the hearing saying: "He died from the effects of a single moderate usage of cocaine superimposed upon ischaemic heart disease caused by naturally occurring coronary atherosclerosis." -
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