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Sylvester Stallone's 36-year-old son, Sage Moonblood Stallone, was found dead in his Los Angeles area home in July 2012. Initial investigations by the Los Angeles County coroner's department stated there weren't signs of foul play in his death. Sage's attorney, George Braunstein, said a housekeeper found his body at the home. Sage, the oldest of Sylvester's children, co-starred with his dad in two films: 1990's "Rocky V" and 1996's "Daylight."
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In August 1979, O.J. Simpson's 23-month-old daughter, Aaren, died after being taken off of life support while in a coma. According to reports, Simpson's former wife, Marguerite, pulled Aaren out of her home's swimming pool after finding the girl unconscious. The baby's reported cause of death was "respiratory failure." She was the youngest of the former couple's 3 children which included Jason and Arnelle.
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In April 2010, Marie Osmond's son, Michael Blosil, died after jumping from his downtown Los Angeles apartment. According to reports, the 18-year-old college student left a note explaining he wanted to commit suicide because his life-long battle with depression left him feeling as if he had no friends and could not fit in.
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Although Art Linkletter delighted audiences with his shows, "People are Funny" and "House Party," the TV host had a lot of tragedy in his life. In 1969, his 20-year-old daughter, Diane, died after jumping from her sixth-floor Hollywood apartment. Linkletter said LSD was to blame, although toxicology tests found no trace of the drug in her body after she died. Another of Art's sons, Robert, died in a 1980 car accident. Still a third son, Jack, died of lymphoma at the age of 70 in 2007.
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Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son, Daniel, died in his mother's Nassau, Bahamas hospital room on September 10, 2006, just three days after she give birth to daughter Dannielynn Hope. According to reports, Daniel was tending to his mother at 6:20a.m., but by 9:39 a.m., Anna Nicole woke up to find him unresponsive. Doctors tried to revive him during 22 minutes without success and he was pronounced dead at 10:05 a.m. Dr. Cyril Wecht, hired by Anna Nicole Smith to do a second autopsy on her son, said Daniel died from a lethal combination of methadone, Zoloft and Lexapro. "In my opinion it's an accidental death," Wecht told People Magazine.
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Screen legend Gregory Peck's son, Jonathan, shot himself to death in 1975. Jonathan, a TV reporter, was 30 at the time.
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Paul Newman's eldest and only son, Scott, died on November 28, 1978. According to reports, Scott, 28 at the time, overdosed on alcohol and pills.
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On May 26, 2008, rapper Xzibit's 11-month-old son, Xavier Kingston Joiner, died. On his official MySpace blog, Xzibit wrote: "[Xavier's] lungs were not strong enough to handle regular oxygen on his own."
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On October 15, 1978, Mary Tyler Moore's son, Richie, died from accidental gunshot wounds. According to a formal investigation by the Los Angeles Coroner's Office, Richie had been toying with one of the guns from his collection when it went off. That model was eventually taken off the market because of its "hair-trigger" instability, Moore revealed in her 1995 autobiography, After All.
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On August 23, 2008, Dr. Dre's son, Andre Young Jr., died from an overdose of "morphine and heroin intoxication," the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner confirmed. The 20-year-old was found unresponsive by his mother, Jenita Porter, at their Woodland Hills, California home. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene, People Magazine reported.
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Hunter Tylo's son, Michael Tylo, Jr., died in October 2007 at a Henderson, Nevada residence. Clark County Coroner, Michael Murphy, told People Magazine: "It has already been determined that this was an accident...Looking at the report, it appears that he fell in the pool after having some sort of medical event. It says on the report that he had a seizure disorder." Michael was 19.
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On January 2, 2009, John Travolta's son, Jett, 16, died during a family vacation in the Bahamas. Jett suffered a seizure, hit his head and was found unresponsive by a caretaker that morning, the Associated Press reported.
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Hugh O'Connor (picture, left), actor and only son of "All in the Family" star, Carroll O'Connor died of a gunshot wound at his New York home in March 1995. According to authorities, his death was a suicide. Carroll said his son had been addicted to drugs for 16 years. Days after his death, a man Carroll identified as Hugh's dealer was arrested. Hugh, who starred alongside his father on the TV series, "In The Heat of The Night," was 33 at the time.
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In January 1997, Bill Cosby's only son, Ennis, was shot to death by Mikhail Markhasev during an attempted robbery in Bel-Air, California. According to reports, Ennis was on the side of the road, trying to change a spare tire when the incident occurred. Mikhail, an immigrant from the Ukraine, was convicted of first-degree murder and attempted robbery on July 7, 1998. During his trial, prosecutors relied on jailhouse letters where Markhasev allegedly confessed to the killing.
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On March 20, 1991, Eric Clapton's 4 ½ year old son, Connor, died after falling out of a bedroom window in his 53rd floor Manhattan apartment. Police said the child landed on a four-story building next to Clapton's residence. According to authorities, the window-which was not protected by a guard- was left open after it was cleaned by a housekeeper. Although Connor wasn't in the room during the cleaning, authorities said he darted past his housekeeper and somehow fell out the window. Only the housekeeper and the boy's mother, Italian TV actress Lori Del Santo (picture, far right), were at the duplex during the accident, police said.
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Actor Walter Koenig-best known for his role of "Chekov" on "Star Trek"- lost his son, Andrew (picture, right), to suicide in February 2010. Andrew-who played "Boner" on the hit sitcom, "Growing Pains"-was 41 at the time. According to reports, Koenig's body was found hanging from a tree in Vancouver's Stanley Park during a private search conducted by family and friends. Andrew-who suffered from clinical depression-had been missing for several days before he was found.
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Marlon Brandon's daughter, Cheyenne (picture, right), committed suicide in 1995. The 25-year-old was found hanging in a bedroom at her mother's home in Tahiti, The New York Times reported. Apparently Cheyenne was depressed after her lover, Dag Drollet, was shot to death by her half-brother, Christian (picture, center), on May 16, 1990. That tragic incident occurred at Marlon's Beverly Hills estate. According to authorities, Christian said he committed the crime because Drollet beat his sister while she was pregnant. (Terra USA/Dennis Pastorizo)
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Sylvester Stallone's 36-year-old son, Sage Moonblood Stallone, was found dead in his Los Angeles area home in July 2012. Initial investigations by the Los Angeles County coroner's department stated there weren't signs of foul play in his death. Sage's attorney, George Braunstein, said a housekeeper found his body at the home. Sage, the oldest of Sylvester's children, co-starred with his dad in two films: 1990's "Rocky V" and 1996's "Daylight."
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