Death
On December 23, 1999, Hamilton locked herself in her hotel room at the Sheraton Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Apparently depressed over her lingering injuries from an auto accident earlier in the year, she took a fatal overdose of sleeping pills. She was 56 years old. She is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.
However, the official police report states that there are many suspicions around her death, including that the door could have been locked by someone who had a key to the room. The bag placed around her head was also not sealed tight enough to cause death by asphyxiation. Finally, the toxicology report states that the level of sleeping pills in her system was only very minor, and also not enough to cause her death either.
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