Hollywood Producer's Son Dies By Suicide
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We are mourning the loss of an extraordinary mother, someone who poured her entire heart into her three boys...," the couple said
Sam Haskell IV, a 37-year-old Hollywood scion and son of producer Sam Haskell III, died by suicide in a Los Angeles jail on July 12, 2025, days before a hearing where prosecutors planned to unveil evidence of his affair and a blood-soaked knife tied to the murders of his wife Mei Haskell,
Sam Haskell, accused of beheading his wife and in-laws, died in Los Angeles jail while awaiting trial as prosecutors prepared to reveal new evidence of an affair and murder weapon.
According to police, Haskell tossed the dismembered bodies by placing them in a trash bin in Encino, where his wife's remains were eventually found.
Haskell had been charged in the grisly 2023 murders of his wife, 37-year-old Mei Li Haskell, and her parents, Gaoshan Li, 72, and Yanxiang Wang, 64, at their home in Tarzana, a suburb of L.A.