Death
Barton died of heart failure on July 21, 2001 in Bremen, Germany at the age of 47. According to original statements by those who found Barton’s body, he was lying in bed with empty bottles of blood-pressure medication on his bedside table. This, along with the fact that he was believed to have suffered from bipolar disorder, led to his death being ruled a suicide. However, Barton’s autopsy report revealed no substances in his bloodstream other than a minimal maintenance dosage of anti-depressants and a normal daily dosage of high-blood pressure medication; furthermore, the autopsy report makes no mention of the empty bottles supposedly found by Barton’s body, making his death unlikely to have been a suicide. His ashes were buried in the countryside in Texas in August 2001. The Broadway magazine/website Playbill reported "(t)he July 21 death of actor Steve Barton is being attributed to heart failure, according to obituary information released by the press office for the New York production of The Phantom of the Opera".
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