Overview
- Chilmark Police said a neighbor found Forté unresponsive on his kitchen floor at 2:25 p.m. Monday, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
- The case has been referred to the Massachusetts State Police Cape and Islands Detective Unit pending the medical examiner’s findings.
- Family friends said Forté was hospitalized after a seizure about a year ago and had been taking medication to manage seizure risk, though an official cause has not been determined.
- Forté, a Brooklyn native, was a key contributor to the Fugees’ 1996 album The Score and later worked as a producer and composer, including recent scoring projects.
- He is survived by his wife, photographer Lara Fuller, and their two children; his 2008 sentence commutation by President George W. Bush followed a 2000 drug conviction.