The Tragic Death Of Glenn Frey

May 2024 ยท 2 minute read

Regardless of Azoff's claims, it's not clear whether Glenn Frey's death was complicated by the medications he took for rheumatoid arthritis.  

According to The Arthritis Foundation, "Arthritis experts not involved in Frey's care say it is unlikely that RA directly caused his death, or that the medications he took for RA somehow caused ulcerative colitis." 

However, they do report that certain types of inflammatory arthritis go hand-in-hand with bowel disease, so often the treatments for those afflictions overlap, and those medications can have "serious side effects," because they can suppress the immune response triggered by auto-immune disorders and "increase susceptibility to infections, including pneumonia," per the Arthritis Foundation. 

Frey's widow, Cindy Frey, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Mount Sinai Hospital and gastroenterologist Dr. Steven Itzkowitz two years after Frey's death in January 2018. 

"As a result of the foregoing acts of negligence, Glenn Frey was rendered sick, sore, lame and disabled, suffered injuries, pain, mental anguish, was compelled to seek medical care and attention, incurred expenses thereof, and was permanently injured and disabled until the time of his death," court documents read, in part.

According to Nights with Alice Cooper, Cindy Frey is suing for $12 million in lost earnings she says were caused by multiple occasions of neglect from 2015 that led to Frey's untimely death. The lawsuit is ongoing, according to The Supreme Court of New York, County of New York. 

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