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No drugs in Anthony Bourdain's body when he died: prosecutor

U.S. celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, who killed himself in a French hotel room earlier this month, had no narcotics in his body when he died, a French prosecutor said on Friday.

U.S. celebrity chef died while on location in France

CNN will broadcast the last new episode of Anthony Bourdain's show Parts Unknown on Sunday, showing him visiting the Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan. (Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images)

U.S. celebrity chef AnthonyBourdain, who killed himself in a French hotel room earlier thismonth, had no narcotics in his body when he died, a French prosecutor said on Friday.

Bourdain, host of CNN's food-and-travel-focused PartsUnknowntelevision series, was 61. Brash and opinionated, hehad spoken openly about his use of drugs and addiction to heroinearlier in his life.

"No trace of narcotics. No trace of any toxic products.Trace of medicines in therapeutic dose. Trace of alcohol," prosecutor Christian de Rocquingnysaid, listing the findings of the investigation.

Bourdain, whose career catapulted him from washing dishes atNew York restaurants to dining in Vietnam with President BarackObama, killed himself in a hotel room near Strasbourg, France,where he had been working on an upcoming episode of his TVseries, according to CNN.


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