Betsy Arakawa, a concert pianist in Hawaii and married to Gene Hackman actor, died at 65

Betsy Arakawa, a concert pianist and co-founder of a housing furniture business, was found dead on Wednesday in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at home, together with the Hackman’s Gene-SIOT Actor and their dog, according to the authorities. He was 65 years old.

Arakawa and Hackman, 95 years old, lived in a South-West style farm on Old Sunset Trail, in a closed community looking at the rocky mountains. They held up to three German shepherds at one point and often spent their free time watching movies.

“We like the simple stories that some of the small small budget films manage to produce”, “ Hackman told Empire Magazine in 2009.

Denise Avila, spokesman for the sheriff’s office, said there was no indication that they were shot or had injured.

Raised in Honolulu, Arakawa studied the piano at an early age and was only 11 when he sang for 9,000 children at Honolulu International Center concert Hall, according to a 1971 report of the newspaper Honolulu Star-Bulletin.

According to a 1981 column in Honolulu Star-Advertiser, he attended a private school in Honolulu before moving to Los Angeles and studied at the University of Southern California, from which he graduated in social sciences and communication.

After college, he played with the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, now the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra and gave a more private show in a medical care house in the Chicago area used for Hackman’s film “The package.”

In Santa Fe, she helped find Pandora in 2001. The shop site describes Pandora “The treatment of functional art, the art of life – in what lives, sleeps and wraps around someone’s shoulders in a cold day.”

She and Hackman met in the mid-1980s at a California gym, according to a 1989 New York Times story, and they married in 1991. Hackman would deny that their relationship had broken his first marriage to Faye Maltese.

“By the way, I didn’t leave my real wife for a younger woman. We just detached ourselves “,” He told Sun-Sentinel of South Florida in 1985 when he promoted the movie “Twice for life”, “ in which his character is a family man who falls for another woman.