Mr. Bacharach and his second wife, 75-year-old Angie Dickinson, whom he married in 1965, had just one child, Nikki.
She allegedly died by suffocation using helium and a plastic bag, according to the coroner’s office.
According to Mr. Bacharach’s publicist Linda Dozoretz, “She softly and compassionately committed herself to escape the harm to her brain brought on by Asperger’s.”
Cats, Tahiti, clear skies, fiery sunsets, meteor showers, glacial calving, earthquakes, and science were all to her taste.
Songwriter Burt Bacharach is mourning the death of his only child, Angie Dickinson, an actress who committed herself at the age of 40.
After years of battling Asperger’s syndrome, Nikki Bacharach took her own life on Thursday night in her Thousand Oaks, California, home.
