GOP Advisor OD’d
Republican media advisor Robert Gregory Stevens, whose body was found at the home of actress and author Carrie Fisher last month, died from an overdose of cocaine and a painkiller, a county coroner’s official said Wednesday.
Lt. Fred Corral said the “cause of death was cocaine and oxycodone, but he also had hypertrophic heart disease, that’s an enlarged heart, and coronary heart disease.”
Stevens, 42, was a friend of Fisher and was found Feb. 26 in the guest room of her Coldwater Canyon home.
Colleagues initially had told reporters that preliminary autopsy results suggested heart failure.
Stevens was co-chairman of the Bush/Cheney Entertainment Task Force during the 2004 presidential campaign.
He worked for the Washington, D.C., lobbying firm Barbour Griffith & Rogers and was on the presidential inaugural committee in 2001.
Fisher, the daughter of Debbie Reynolds and actor Eddie Fisher, is the author of several books, including “Postcards From the Edge” and is most widely known for playing Princess Leia in the original “Star Wars” trilogy.
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