{"id":85271,"date":"2023-10-03T11:56:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T08:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=85271"},"modified":"2025-09-12T22:15:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T19:15:36","slug":"spanish-court-rules-john-mcafees-death-a-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/spanish-court-rules-john-mcafees-death-a-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish court rules John McAfee&#8217;s death a suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Spanish court has ruled suicide as the official cause of death of the crypto-entrepreneur John McAfee. Reuters reports.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2021, the body of the 75-year-old businessman was <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/john-mcafee-found-dead-after-extradition-ruling-to-the-united-states\">found<\/a> in a prison cell a few hours after his extradition to the United States was approved.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said that &#8216;there is no evidence of any third-party involvement in the crime&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Police came to this conclusion immediately after the first autopsy in 2021, but the businessman\u2019s widow, Jenis <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/john-mcafees-widow-questions-account-of-his-suicide\">was skeptical<\/a> of the suicide version and began <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theemrsmcafee\/status\/1539863395775795201\">\u0441\u0431\u043e\u0440 \u043f\u043e\u0434\u043f\u0438\u0441\u0435\u0439<\/a> with the aim of persuading the government to issue the remains for an independent autopsy.<\/p>\n<p>In her view, the court&#8217;s ruling was not unexpected for John and could not have driven him to despair. Jenis noted that he was prepared for the ensuing fight.<\/p>\n<p>The entrepreneur&#8217;s death is surrounded by a multitude of conspiracy theories, many of which McAfee himself spawned in posts on X.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am content in here. I have friends.<\/p>\n<p>The food is good. All is well. <\/p>\n<p>Know that if I hang myself, a la Epstein, it will be no fault of mine.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John McAfee (@officialmcafee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officialmcafee\/status\/1316801215083225096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI am content here. I have friends. The food is good. All is well. Know that if I hang myself, Epstein-style, it will be no fault of mine,\u201d he wrote shortly before his death.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McAfee <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sec-files-suit-against-john-mcafee-he-has-been-arrested\">was arrested in October 2020<\/a> in Spain at the request of US authorities. The Securities and Exchange Commission accused the entrepreneur of deceiving investors in promoting <span data-descr=\"initial coin offering\" class=\"old_tooltip\">ICO<\/span>-projects, and the Justice Department of tax evasion. In 2021, McAfee <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/john-mcafee-faces-up-to-100-years-in-prison-on-fraud-and-money-laundering-charges\">faced charges of fraud and money laundering<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He himself described the case against him as <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/john-mcafee-says-the-case-against-him-is-an-attack-by-the-us-on-all-cryptocurrencies\">an attack on all cryptocurrencies<\/a> and said the charges were <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/john-mcafee-says-u-s-charges-against-him-are-politically-motivated\">politically motivated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2022, the entrepreneur&#8217;s former girlfriend Samantha Herrera <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ex-girlfriend-of-john-mcafee-denies-his-death\">denied<\/a> his death. In a Netflix documentary, she said that McAfee was still alive and hiding in Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Spanish court has ruled that suicide was the official cause of John McAfee&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[944],"class_list":["post-85271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-john-mcafee"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"30","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85273,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85271\/revisions\/85273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}