Celebrity Chef Anthony Bourdain Has Died By Suicide Aged 61

‘beyond the devastation’: anthony bourdain’s girlfriend, asia argento, breaks her silence after the 61-year-old chef hanged himself in a french hotel

bourdain hanged himself in his hotel room in kaysersberg, france, while in town shooting at unknown parties
his close friend Éric ripert , owner of new york’s renowned le bernardin restaurant, found him dead
bourdain rose to fame with his memoir Kitchen Confidential, and became a household name on television
The travel host and author was also very open about his past struggles with heroin and cocaine addiction
he leaves behind his 11-year-old daughter, ariane, and was married twice to ottavia busia and nancy putkoski
bourdain recently dated actress asia argento, who is one of harvey weinstein’s accusers
she released a statement on friday saying she is ‘devastated’ by the loss of ‘my protector’
to pr earlier this week, she was seen hugging and laughing with journalist hugo clement in rome
last week, bourdain bought a painting with the ominous caption ‘the sky is falling falling, I’m learning to live with it’

by ashley collman for dailymail.com and peter allen in paris for mailonline and robert hartlein in new york city for dailymail.com

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