Eazy-E, the rapper and founder of Ruthless Records, died from complications related to AIDS on March 26, 1995, at the age of 31. He was diagnosed with AIDS only shortly before his death and passed away due to pneumonia caused by the disease, which had severely weakened his immune system. Eazy-E had acknowledged his promiscuous lifestyle as the likely source of his infection, though conspiracy theories about the circumstances of his illness and death have persisted. He died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, with family and close ones by his side.
