I am going to put on my tin foil hat here and say that I think it is creepy that there was a death hoax just prior to his real death. Same thing happened with Paul Walker. There was a death hoax prior to him really dying.
Cocaine is all the rage in Hollywood we hear, but the drug of choice is, as it always has been, heroin.
Perhaps, a time traveller is playing games using the public’s fascination with celebrity. :-) It is macabre. if they haven’t already, “Coast-to-Coast” will probably do a show on it.
I believe the reality is that certain people turn the wait for a close, inevitable event into a sick hobby, making and taking bets on when an ill, and/or elderly, celebrity will pass away.
Unless he often was seen driving like a maniac on city streets, imo, the initial Paul Walker hoax was a very strange and eerie coincidence.