Police say Philip Seymour Hoffman found dead of apparent overdose with 'needle in his arm' at home

Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead of an apparent drug overdose inside his New York apartment Sunday, a New York Police Department spokesperson said.

The “Capote” actor, 46, was discovered at 11:30 a.m. EST in his Greenwich Village apartment with a hypodermic needle in his arm, police said.



Hoffman had admitted that he suffered from substance-abuse problems but said he got sober in rehab.

“It was anything I could get my hands on,” Hoffman told “60 Minutes” in 2006. “I liked it all.”


Last year, the actor — who starred in such films as “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” “Moneyball” and “Boogie Nights” — reportedly checked himself into rehab for 10 days after relapsing in 2012.


Source : LATimes , DailyMail

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