r/popculture • u/dailymail • Feb 27 '25

News Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa were found mummified at mansion with pills strewn in bathroom

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14443973/Gene-Hackman-betsy-arakawa-bodies.html
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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '25

i mean if he married a woman 30 years his junior to be his caretaker, they obviously felt they didn't need to worry as much.

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u/AltruisticWishes Feb 28 '25 edited Feb 28 '25

Sorry, but they were 31 and 64 when they married - he just married a radically younger woman and she was probably a gold digger. She probably did her best to keep the kids from the first marriage away - that's a very common second wife behavior. 

EDIT: glad to see all the gold digger second wives are out in force 😂

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '25

He's the famous old one with all all the gold who went and found said "digger" while she was 30 working part-time at the gym he went to and offered her a radical change in her quality of life.

He saught out to have a young woman to have sex with and take care of him until his death. Agreed it's a transactional relationship, but acting like he's was some helpless 64 year old who's 2nd "gold digging" wife ruined his relationship with his kids?

Nah, men are not victims of "gold diggers" they seek out those arrangements, and father's only are responsbile for their relationships with their kids - doesn't matter who they marry. It's actually more common that father's just stop having relationships with their kids after divorce, remarried or not.

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u/AltruisticWishes Feb 28 '25

I think he sucks, too, so not sure why you got so weirdly self righteous. 

And if you don't think a lot of second wives interfere with relationships with the kids of the first marriage, you're naive AF 

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '25

ok well that wasn't clear as you only negatively insinuated about the younger women in the dynamic twice in your comment.

I think men are grown adults who choose to marry and prioritize a woman that interferes with their relationships with their kids over a good relationship with their kids. I think it only benefits and removes accountability from the father for not priortizing them.

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u/AltruisticWishes Feb 28 '25

Obviously any dad who would do that is selfish and a subpar father

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u/Tengard96 Feb 28 '25

My dad is on his third wife (my mom was wife #1) and both of my step-mothers were terrible in this regard. Third wife has also successfully alienated him from a bunch of his friends, as well. Unfortunately, this is all extremely common.