what happened to jan michael vincent

Jan-Michael Vincent was an American actor known for his role as helicopter pilot Stringfellow Hawke in the TV series "Airwolf". He was born in Denver, Colorado, on July 15, 1944, and grew up in Hanford in the central San Joaquin Valley, where his parents owned a billboard company. Vincents career was derailed by problems with drugs and alcohol, and he died on February 10, 2019, at the age of 73, due to cardiac arrest at Mission Hospital’s Memorial Campus in Asheville, North Carolina. He had a very public battle with drug and alcohol abuse, and his career was already on the wane when he was involved in a 1996 car accident in Mission Viejo, California, that broke his neck and damaged his vocal cords. Over the years, various women, including his second wife, accused him of physical assault.