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Michael Madsen, who was in several Quentin Tarantino films such as Reservoir Dogs, died aged 67 after he was found unresponsive at his home in Malibu, California

Heart disease and alcoholism are understood to have played a factor in Hollywood actor Michael Madsen’s death, it is reported.

The Kill Bill and Reservoir Dogs actor, aged 67, was found unresponsive at home last week, which his manager has since stated was as a result of a cardiac arrest. The star’s cardiologist has now revealed his official cause of death to be heart failure and said contributing factors to this include heart disease and alcoholism.

Madsen’s lawyer said the actor – known for his roles in Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill – was battling an alcohol addiction before he died. No autopsy will be conducted because the cardiologist who was treating Madsen signed the death certificate, it is understood.

The doctor, who has not been named, told NBC Los Angeles the new developments today. The publication also details poignant tributes for the star, who was in multiple Quentin Tarantino films during his 40-year career.

READ MORE: Michael Madsen’s sister Virginia pays emotional tribute after actor’s death

Madsen’s sister Virginia had said last week: “My brother Michael has left the stage. He was thunder and velvet. Mischief wrapped in tenderness. A poet disguised as an outlaw. A father, a son, a brother – etched in contradiction, tempered by love that left its mark.

” We’re not mourning a public figure. We’re not mourning a myth – but flesh and blood and ferocious heart. Who stormed through life loud, brilliant, and half on fire. Who leaves us echoes – gruff, brilliant, unrepeatable – half legend, half lullaby. “

According to those who knew Madsen, the actor was working on a book as well as his acting work. In response to the tragedy, his representatives stated in a statement that they were looking forward to the release of Michael Madsen’s next film, including the upcoming works Concessions and Cookbook for Southern Housewives.

Additionally, Madsen was working on a new book, Outlaw Thoughts and Poems, called Tears For My Father. One of Hollywood’s most recognizable actors, Michael Madsen will be greatly missed.

The actor started out in the early 1980s with minor roles in films like WarGames and Racing With the Moon, and his directing career spanned decades. His biggest early success was in 1992 when he played a significant role in Reservoir Dogs at the age of 35. It established a close relationship with its director, Tarantino, through which they collaborated on Kill Bill: Volume 2, The Hateful Eight, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Michael Madsen, who appeared in several Quentin Tarantino movies, including Reservoir Dogs, passed away at the age of 67 after being discovered unconscious at his Malibu, California, home.

Heart disease and alcoholism are understood to have played a factor in Hollywood actor Michael Madsen’s death, it is reported.

The Kill Bill and Reservoir Dogs actor, aged 67, was found unresponsive at home last week, which his manager has since stated was as a result of a cardiac arrest. The star’s cardiologist has now revealed his official cause of death to be heart failure and said contributing factors to this include heart disease and alcoholism.

Madsen’s lawyer said the actor – known for his roles in Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill – was battling an alcohol addiction before he died. No autopsy will be conducted because the cardiologist who was treating Madsen signed the death certificate, it is understood.

The doctor, who has not been named, told NBC Los Angeles the new developments today. The publication also details poignant tributes for the star, who was in multiple Quentin Tarantino films during his 40-year career.

READ MORE: Michael Madsen’s sister Virginia pays emotional tribute after actor’s death

Madsen’s sister Virginia had said last week: “My brother Michael has left the stage. He was thunder and velvet. Mischief wrapped in tenderness. A poet disguised as an outlaw. A father, a son, a brother – etched in contradiction, tempered by love that left its mark.

We’re not mourning a famous person, they say. We are grieving with ferocious hearts and flesh, not a myth. who roared through life in a roaring, brilliant, and ignoble fire. Who gives us echoes of gruff, brilliant, and unrepeatable, half legend, half lullaby?

According to those who knew Madsen, the actor was working on a book as well as his acting work. In response to the tragedy, his representatives stated in a statement that they were looking forward to the release of Michael Madsen’s next film, including the upcoming works Concessions and Cookbook for Southern Housewives.

Additionally, Madsen was working on a new book, Outlaw Thoughts and Poems, called Tears For My Father. One of Hollywood’s most recognizable actors, Michael Madsen will be greatly missed.

The actor started out in the early 1980s with minor roles in films like WarGames and Racing With the Moon, and his directing career spanned decades. His biggest early success was in 1992 when he played a significant role in Reservoir Dogs at the age of 35. It established a close relationship with its director, Tarantino, through which they collaborated on Kill Bill: Volume 2, The Hateful Eight, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Liam Gallagher has spoken about his brother Noel Gallagher for a new book that’s being released amid the Oasis reunion tour, which is heading to Heaton Park in Manchester this week

Liam Gallagher has admitted the worst kept secret in music – that he and brother Noel Gallagher couldn’t be more different. The famously scrappy siblings seem to have buried the hatchet for the Oasis reunion tour but frontman Liam, 52, says the pair are – and have been – complete opposites. And he agrees with Noel’s analogy in 2016 documentary Supersonic when he said he was a cat and Liam was a dog. “Without a doubt,” Liam agrees in an interview featured in new book A Sound So Very Loud. “He’s arrogant, sticks his a*** up, comes and goes as he pleases… loves being stroked. Total tart. Loves you when he wants. I only get took out on a lead.”

Noel, 58, said in the ­documentary: “I’m a cat. That’s just what I am. I’ve accepted it. I’m a bit of a b******d.”

In the book, Liam also brags about the wild scrapes the band would regularly get into in the early days and moans about how times have changed. “The Benny Hill element has gone from rock ‘n’ roll,” he says. And Noel reveals the real cause of their infamous ferry bust-up in 1994, which sank Oasis’s chances of performing in Amsterdam. The band were just breaking through, but the incident led to Liam and the rest of the group getting arrested.

Noel said it was nothing to do with a reported scuffle with ­football fans. It was actually Liam walking past a roulette table and grabbing the ball, before being confronted by a police officer, who told him he was going to arrest him, along with Oasis bassist Paul ‘Guigsy’ McGuigan. Noel recalls: “Guigsy says that the copper told Liam he was going to arrest him. Liam goes, ‘You and whose f***ing army?’ Except he never got as far as the word ‘whose’. In one movement they had him on the floor with his arm behind his back.” The band got back on the road last Friday in Cardiff, 16 years after what had looked like being their final ever gig. They are next on stage in Manchester this Friday.

It was reported earlier this week that Liam risks getting a rocky reception at the homecoming gigs at Heaton Park if he continues asking the crowd to “do the Poznan”. He had urged fans at the shows in Cardiff to turn around and bounce up and down during the song Cigarettes & Alcohol.

As previously reported, he said on Saturday: “I don’t ask you to do the Mexican wave or sh*t like that, but I want you to do the poznan so everyone turn around and put your hands on each other. It’s 2025, don’t be shy. When the tunes start, you jump up and down, it’s very easy, you don’t need GCSEs.”

The Poznan is a celebration used by Manchester City. It’s expected that many thousands of Manchester United football fans will be in the crowd at Heaton Park though.

A source told the Mirror: “Liam loves seeing the crowd do it, but it will be a higher risk strategy at Heaton Park. It will be no surprise if he does do it or gives City a shout-out on stage because he and Noel are such big fans. Bonehead is the only red (United fan) in the line-up.”

A Sound So Very Loud by Ted Kessler and Hamish MacBain is out Thursday.

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