UPDATE:<\/p>\n
Sen. Lindsey Graham died from a ruptured aorta brought on by chronic heart disease, according to the preliminary examination findings of the DC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.<\/p>\n
ORIGINAL POST:<\/p>\n
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham<\/a>, died Saturday night, July 11, from \u201ca brief and sudden illness,\u201d according to a statement released early this morning (Sunday, July 12) by his office<\/a>.<\/p>\n He was two days past his 71st birthday.<\/p>\n Numerous sources are reporting that the South Carolina Republican died of a heart attack, pointing to transcripts of 9-1-1 calls and emergency dispatch records that show emergency personnel were sent to Graham\u2019s home in Capitol Hill about 8:30 Saturday night after receiving a report that someone was suffering chest pain, according to audio found on the Broadcastify website<\/a>, which archives public safety radio feeds. Emergency responders later reported performing CPR on someone in the home.<\/p>\n According to USA Today<\/a>, a woman who said she was in Baltimore, Md., and was on her way to Graham\u2019s home in D.C. was the person who called 9-1-1 to report that Graham was having chest pains. That woman remains unidentified.<\/p>\n Graham does have a younger sister, Darlene Graham Nordone, who lives in South Carolina. Graham legally adopted her after both their parents died within months of each other when she was 13.<\/p>\n Nordone reportedly lives in South Carolina.<\/p>\n Graham, who was never married and never publicly romantically linked to any woman, was long-rumored to have been gay \u2014 rumors he steadfastly denied throughout his political career. He also steadfastly maintained a rabidly anti-LGBTQ+ voting record.<\/p>\n The rumors, nonetheless, persisted. In the summer of 2020 a number of male escorts and porn stars \u201ccreated a stir with the \u2018Lady Graham\u2019 hashtag and revelations about \u2018ladybugs\u2019\u201d [what one male escort said Graham called the moles he had on specific parts of his body, according to The Washington Blade<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2014 Tammye Nash<\/p>\n \n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Sen. Lindsey Graham died from a ruptured aorta brought on by chronic heart disease, according to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[131336,102,104,103,25014,25936,1183,75852,2134],"class_list":["post-370744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-closet-case","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-died","tag-heart-attack","tag-lgbtq","tag-lindsey-graham","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}