Overview
- Escobedo’s death certificate lists cardiogenic shock as the immediate cause, with vasodilatory shock, disseminated intravascular coagulation and alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver as underlying causes.
- Contributing conditions cited on the document include sepsis, graft versus host disease, immunosuppression, chronic kidney disease and pneumonia.
- The certificate notes he was cremated and records his occupation as an entertainer who played music for 40 years.
- Kimmel has launched fundraisers in Escobedo’s memory for UCLA Medical Center and The Animal Foundation in Las Vegas.
- Some outlets report he died at UCLA following complications related to a liver transplant, while the official record confirms the medical causes; Escobedo died Nov. 11 and had been absent from the show for months.