Richard Simmons was coated in cuts and bruises and had a damaged leg when he died the day earlier than his 76th birthday.
RadarOnline.com completely obtained a replica of Simmons’ post-mortem report revealing the extent of the “traumatic blunt accidents” credited with inflicting the health guru’s unintentional dying.
Simmons, who disappeared from the general public eye in 2014 after a affluent profession in train media, suffered the accidents throughout a “floor degree fall” at his Hollywood Hills residence. The date of damage was listed as “unknown” by the Los Angeles Medical Examiner.
On the night of July 11, “he skilled an episode of dizziness and collapsed on the ground”, the report learn. The following day, which was his birthday, he “refused to hunt medical care as a result of he wished to spend his birthday at residence and agreed to hunt medical care the next morning.”
The exercise icon — whose authorized title was Milton Simmons — spent his birthday in mattress. His secretary instructed officers his “speech appeared slurred” when she paid him a go to.
On the morning of the thirteenth, Simmons had “requested to sleep in later than common” and when his caretaker, Teresa Reveles, went to verify on him round 9:30 AM, she discovered him unresponsive on his bed room ground.
Reveles known as 911 after making an attempt CPR, however officers declared Simmons useless on the scene. Officers stated he was mendacity face-up subsequent to his mattress. They wrote of their preliminary report: “Pores and skin defects showing per abrasions had been seen on his head, proper hand, left elbow, and decrease legs.”
Simmons additionally had what gave the impression to be bruises on “his head, chest, elbows, palms, higher left thigh, buttocks, bilateral decrease legs, and toes,” investigators stated, including: “No indicators of apparent important trauma had been noticed.”
Upon nearer evaluation, the medical expert confirmed: “There are a number of abrasions and contusions on the physique,” together with a “palpable fracture” to his left femur.
The media character’s dying was dominated unintentional, brought on by “sequelae of blunt traumatic accidents” with “arteriosclerotic heart problems” listed as a contributing situation.
A toxicology screening additionally discovered three prescription drugs in his system: diphenhydramine, an antihistamine branded as Benadryl; trazodone, an antidepressant; and zolpidem, a sedative-hypnotic used to deal with insomnia. The medical expert famous “these don’t seem to have contributed to the reason for dying.”