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| Hemingway's Youngest Son Dies in Jail Cell |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 10/05/2001 |
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Novelist Ernest Hemingway's troubled youngest son died of natural causes in a Miami jail cell. He was 69. Gregory Hemingway, a former doctor also known as Gloria Hemingway, was found dead at 5:45 a.m. Monday, said Janelle Hall, a spokeswoman for the county corrections department. He had been arrested last week, at least his third arrest in the county. He often dressed as a woman, and Hall said jail officials had classified him as a woman and believe he had undergone a sex change operation. He died in the women's section of the jail. Police said family members, whose names they did not make public, confirmed the deceased was Ernest Hemingway's son. The elder Hemingway killed himself in 1961. A book Gregory Hemingway wrote about his father, 'Papa: A Personal Memoir,'' was published in 1976. It had a preface by Norman Mailer. Gregory Hemingway had been arrested last week on Key Biscayne, charged with indecent exposure and resisting arrest without violence after a park ranger reported a pedestrian with no clothes on. He appeared to be drunk or otherwise impaired, said the arresting officer, Nelia Real. Homicide detectives ruled the death was due to natural causes. The autopsy report listed hypertension and cardiovascular disease, officials said according to Miami-Dade police spokesman Juan DelCastillo. |
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