The family of Top Gun director Tony Scott has told medical examiners that the British- born filmmaker did not have brain cancer or any serious illness when he jumped to his death from a bridge, a Los Angeles county coroner department official has said.
Craig Harvey, operations chief for the coroner, also said Monday’s postmortem showed that Scott (68) had no obvious signs of a brain tumour. More lab tests are needed to rule out any microscopic traces of cancer that would have been too minute to be detected while Scott was alive.
The disclosures contradicted an earlier unconfirmed ABC News report, attributed by the network to an unidentified source close to Scott, that he had inoperable brain cancer.
– (Reuters)