Andy Irons’ autopsy results will not be released until at least May 20 under a court injunction granted last week by a judge in Tarrant County, Texas, according to online media outlets. ESPN reported Monday that Lyndie Irons, Andy Irons’
Andy Irons’ autopsy results will not be released until at least May 20 under a court injunction granted last week by a judge in Tarrant County, Texas, according to online media outlets.
ESPN reported Monday that Lyndie Irons, Andy Irons’ wife, filed a temporary injunction requesting the results of the autopsy be withheld for six months.
Lyndie Irons, in the ESPN article, says releasing the autopsy results could damage the “Irons brand.”
“Should the autopsy report be released now, Lyndie Irons and her newborn child would suffer immediate and irrevocable harm in that the branding value would be greatly diminished as a result of the intense news frenzy,” the injunction request states according to the ESPN website.
According to KITV, Lyndie Irons said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should also be allowed to conduct its research first.
Courtroom News Service, a nationwide news service for lawyers and the news media, states in a Dec. 23 article on its website that the widow says the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office is about to prematurely release its autopsy findings, despite the fact that additional questions about her husband’s death have been raised to CDCP.
Andy Irons died Nov. 2 in a Dallas hotel room en route home to Hawai‘i from an Association of Surfing Professionals World Tour event in Puerto Rico. He was 32 years old.
The ESPN article states that while dengue fever was initially noted as the cause of Irons’ death, numerous media outlets have reported that the three-time world champion might have died from a drug overdose.
“Due to his celebrity status, his death has been reported by various news media outlets with suggestions and innuendo of drug use,” states a federal complaint filed by Lyndie Irons in Tarrant County, according to Courthouse News Service. “The media has been so aggressive in covering Andy Irons’ death that they have called her and her other family members repeatedly and even camped out in the front yard of Lyndie Irons, causing great distress to her and her newborn child.”
