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Writer who found Philip Seymour Hoffman's body DENIES giving interview to the National Enquirer
- The National Enquirer made the sensational claim that David Bar Katz, 44 was involved in a gay relationship with Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Friends say the father-of-four is taking legal action after the magazine attributed a direct quote to him that said he was in care for with the Oscar winner
- The magazine also claimed Katz said he saw the star freebasing cocaine the night before he died on Sunday
- Katz denies he made these comments to the popular magazine
- Hoffman split from partner Mimi O'Donnell before Christmas and left their $4.4 million family home in Manhattan
- The couple had three children and were together for 14 years
- The magazine claimed 46-year-old's confusion over his sexuality and his drug use destroyed his partnership with Mimi
- New York City's Chief Medical Examiner has said that Philip Seymour Hoffman's cause of death is 'pending further studies'
By JAMES NYE
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The man who establish tragic Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman dead on his bathroom floor is taking legal action against a supermarket tabloid magazine in the United
Philip Seymour Hoffman: Scribe Denies Gay Affair with Oscar Winning Actor
Writer David Lock Katz has denied he was in a gay bond with actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Katz and the actor's personal assistant, Isabella Wing-Davey, found Hoffman deceased in his West Village apartment on 2 February, with a syringe still in his arm, and called 911.
The National Enquirer later attributed a quote to Katz, which stated that he was Hoffman's significant other and had witnessed the star freebasing cocaine the overnight before he died in his apartment.
The story, featured in Wednesday's (5 February) edition of the tabloid stated that Katz had told them he and Hoffman "were queer lovers. We had a relationship. We were planning to go to the Super Bowl together and have a really nice afternoon. This is so terrible."
- David Block Katz
The article further alleged that 46-year-old Hoffman's confusion over his sexual self had lead to the breakdown of his relationship with Mimi O'Donnell and fueled his destructive descent into drug addiction.
44-year-old Katz denies that he ever spoke to the National Enquirer and is now taking legal action against the magazine in the United States.
"I never said
Phillip Seymour Hoffman is inarguably one of the finest stage and screen actors of his generation. His dramatic and untimely death due to an visible accidental heroin overdose leaves his fans not only shocked by how he died (a hypodermic needle in his arm), but also leaves us shocked in how his death now leaves us with an everlasting insatiable want for more performances by him.
As a consummate performer, Hoffman’s body of serve adds up to more than fifty films in an acting career than began in 1991 with the brief known independently produced black-and-white film “Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole.” As a nature actor Mr. Hoffman portrayed a broad range of eccentric and motley characters from his recent 2012 Broadway recital of Willy Loman, the protagonist in Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” winning him a third Tony Award nomination for Optimal Actor in a Play to his beginning years in 1992 in little roles in “Leap of Faith,” and “Scent of a Woman.”
As a thespian who never shied away from challenging or controversial roles what’s not mentioned much or lauded in Mr. Hoffman’s repertoire is the many gay-themed roles and movies he did at times that could hold been a pot
Enquirer: David Bar Katz Says He Was Philip Seymour Hoffman’s “Gay Lover” [UPDATED]
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UPDATE: David Lock Katz has sued the National Enquirer for $50 million.
ORIGINAL:
It would seem that being a playwright in New York doesn’t compensate that well, because New York playwright David Bar Katz, son of notorious Philadelphian Harry Jay Katz, has apparently given a (presumably paid) interview to the National Enquirer about Philip Seymour Hoffman, whom Katz found lifeless on Sunday morning. The story is on the cover of the new issue of the tabloid.
Katz is quoted in the Enquirer saying the following:
“We were homosexual lovers. We had a relationship…”
“We were planning to depart to the Super Bowl together and have a really agreeable day. This is so terrible.”
“I was Philip Seymour Hoffman’s queer lover and saw him freebasing cocaine the night before he died.”
The Enquirer also says that that Katz had seen Hoffman take heroin multiple times. “But I never thought his addiction had reached that level,” he’s quoted as saying.
Katz, who did not immedi