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[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Tony Scott jumped off the Vincent Thomas Bridge (pictured above in 2003) on 19
August 2012. On 19 August 2012, at
approximately 12:30 pm. PDT,
Scott died by suicide by
jumping off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in the San Pedro port district of Los Angeles.[46] Investigators from the Los Angeles Police
Department's Harbor Division
found contact information in a
note left in his car, parked on the bridge,[47] and a note at his office for his family.[48][49] One witness said he did not
hesitate before jumping, but
another said he looked nervous
before climbing a fence,
hesitating for two seconds, and
jumping into the water beside a tour boat.[50][47][51] His body was recovered from the water
by the Los Angeles Port Police. [6] On 22 August, Los Angeles County coroner's spokesman
Ed Winters said the two notes
Scott left behind made no
mention of any health problems,[52] but neither the police nor the family disclosed the content of those notes.[53] On 22 October 2012, the Los
Angeles County Coroner's
Office announced the cause of
death as "multiple blunt force
injuries." Therapeutic levels of mirtazapine and eszopiclone were in his system at the time
of death. Both drugs have
been known to cause suicidal thoughts or ideation.[54] A coroner's official said Scott "did
not have any serious underlying
medical conditions" and that
there was "no anatomic
evidence of neoplasia [cancer] identified."[55] In a November 2014 interview
with Variety, Ridley Scott, while describing Tony's death as
"inexplicable," contradicted the
coroner's official by saying that
Tony had been "fighting a
lengthy battle with cancer—a
diagnosis the family elected to keep private during his
treatments and in the
immediate wake of his death."[56]