Personal Life and Death
Bern married film star Jean Harlow on July 2, 1932. Two months later, on September 5, he was found dead, from a gunshot in the head, in their home on Easton Drive, Beverly Hills, California. The coroner ruled his death a suicide.
Police discovered a note at the scene that read as follows:
"Dearest JeaN,
Unfortuately this is the only way to make good the frightful wrong I have done you and to wipe out my abject humiliation, I Love you.
Paul
You understand that last night was only a comedy"
Authorities viewed this as a suicide note signed by Bern.
To the police, and before a grand jury, Harlow's only statement was that she "knew nothing". Harlow never publicly spoke on the matter. She died in 1937.
Bern is buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery, in Inglewood, California.
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