Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead of an apparent drug overdose inside his New York apartment on Sunday, police said, adding that two glassine envelopes containing what police suspected to be heroin were found near his body.
Five empty glassine envelopes were found in the trash, police added.
The “Capote” actor, 46, was discovered by a business associate shortly after 11:30 a.m. Eastern time in his Greenwich Village apartment. Hoffman was found in his bathroom with a hypodermic needle stuck in his left arm, police said.
From the Wash. Post–Not long ago Showtime announced Hoffman would star in “Happyish,†a new comedy series about a middle-aged man’s pursuit of happiness-Ugh.