{"id":424654,"date":"2026-04-30T05:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424654\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T05:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:47:08","slug":"melrose-place-star-patrick-muldoons-cause-of-death-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424654\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Melrose Place’\u00a0Star Patrick Muldoon\u2019s Cause of Death Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The actor died on Sunday, April 19<\/p>\n

\n\tPatrick Muldoon\u2019s cause of death has been revealed.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to his death certificate, the\u00a0Days of Our Lives\u00a0and\u00a0Melrose Place star died of a heart attack<\/a>, technically referred to as a myocardial infarction, on April 19 at the age of 57, People Magazine<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

\n\tPulmonary embolism and hereditary coagulopathy were listed as underlying causes.\u00a0Coagulopathy is a genetic condition where the body\u2019s ability to form clots is impaired, which can lead to excessive bleeding or excessive clotting. A pulmonary embolism is a blood clot that blocks blood flow in a lung artery, according to the\u00a0Mayo Clinic<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tMuldoon was cremated on Tuesday, April 28. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe actor\u2019s manager previously confirmed his death to Variety. Though no official cause of death was given at the time, Deadline reported that he died after suffering a heart attack. <\/p>\n

\n\tMuldoon made a name for himself after he was cast in\u00a0Saved by the Bell<\/a>\u00a0for a three-episode arc, where his character was infamously the catalyst for Zack and Kelly\u2019s breakup. He went on to join popular soap opera\u00a0Days of Our Lives\u00a0as Austin Reed, a role he embodied from 1992 to 1995 and again from September 2011 to July 2012. He also played recurring character Richard Hart on\u00a0Melrose Place\u00a0for three seasons in the mid-Nineties.<\/p>\n

\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 1997, Muldoon starred in Paul Verhoeven\u2019s beloved sci-fi film\u00a0Starship Troopers\u00a0alongside Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, and Neil Patrick Harris. He continued working throughout the Nineties and 2000s, appearing in films like\u00a0Born to Ride,\u00a0Spiders 3D,\u00a0and\u00a0Saving Christmas. He also had a fruitful career in dramatic made-for-TV movies like\u00a0Deadly Revenge\u00a0and\u00a0His Secret Past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The actor died on Sunday, April 19 Patrick Muldoon\u2019s cause of death has been revealed. According to his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,3208],"class_list":["post-424654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}