Death
On October 11, 1991, during a break from rehearsals for The Royal Family, he suffered a heart attack on the set. According to Joshua Rich at Entertainment Weekly, "It was an end so ironic that for a brief moment cast mates figured Foxx — whose '70s TV character often faked coronaries — was kidding when he grabbed a chair and fell to the floor." Foxx was taken to Queen Of Angels Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, but he died that evening.
Foxx was posthumously given a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame on May 17, 1992. On the pilot of his sitcom Martin Martin Lawrence joked that Foxx faked his death, saying, "The man faked it. If you owed 16 billion dollars in taxes, what would you do?"
Foxx is buried in Las Vegas, at Palm Valley View Memorial Park. His mother, Mary Carson (1903–1993), outlived Foxx and died nearly 17 months later, in 1993. She was buried just to the right of her famed son.
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