Death
Thigpen died of cerebral hemorrhage on March 12, 2003 in her Marina del Rey, California home. Thigpen had been complaining of headaches within the final days of her life. Drugs and foul play were ruled out by the coroner's autopsy, which found "acute cardiac dysfunction, non-traumatic systemic and spontaneous intraventricular hemorrhage and hemorrhage in the brain". Thigpen was interred at Elmhurst Cemetery in her hometown of Joliet, Illinois.
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