Top Ten Greatest Unsolved Mysteries In Hollywood

10. Bruce Lee

Martial arts guru Bruce Lee rose to fame after starring as Kato in the television show, “The Green Hornet.” His subsequent appearance in dozens of martial arts movies made him a household name.

On July 20, 1973, less than a week before the cinematic release of “Enter the Dragon,” Lee met up with producer Raymond Chow to discuss his role in a new movie project.

According to Lee’s wife Linda, Lee and Chow worked until 4 p.m. and then drove to the home of Lee’s colleague, actress Betty Ting Pei. The three went over the script for “Game of Death” before Chow left to attend a meeting.

Shortly after Chow left, Lee complained of a headache. Pei offered him a proprietary painkiller, Equagesic. At around 7.30 p.m. Lee went to lie down, and slipped into a coma. Medics were called, but Lee died before reaching hospital. No signs of external injury were visible on his body, but his brain had swollen by 13%.

Drug tests found two substances in Lee’s body: Equagesic and a small amount of cannabis. Officially, Lee’s death was caused by “misadventure,” due to an adverse reaction to the ingredients of Equagesic or the combination of drugs in his bloodstream.

Conspiracy theorists insist that Lee was murdered. Before his sudden collapse, rumors were ripe in Asia that Lee had been dead for many months. Some say he was assassinated by the Triads because he refused to pay them protection money.

Others claim he was the victim of overtraining, a martial arts death strike or even a family curse – a theory that resurfaced several years later when his son, Brandon, was accidentally killed while filming a death scene on the film set for “The Crow.”