Death
On Saturday, September 25, 2010, Giraldo accidentally overdosed on prescription medication. Earlier that afternoon, he had been scheduled to appear at a concert at the 3rd Annual New York Recovery Rally, which was being held in New York City "to celebrate the reality of recovery from addiction and offer hope to those who have yet to find recovery." The concert was held between noon and 3 p.m., but Giraldo never showed up. After he failed to appear for a scheduled performance at the Stress Factory that evening, police officers found him in his hotel room at the Hyatt Hotel in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and rushed him to nearby Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. TMZ reported that he had been in a coma for five days when his family had life support removed. He died on September 29, 2010.
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