Big heart killed Jerry

AUTHORITIES in Las Vegas say Jerry Lewis died of heart disease, but the wording of his death certificate differs from what was reported earlier.

Clark County coroner John Fudenberg said Lewis’s official cause of death was end-stage cardiac disease and peripheral vascular disease. Mr Fudenberg said coroner’s deputies had been told Lewis died of ischaemic cardiomyopathy.

The clownish comic hailed as an artistic genius died on Sunday of natural causes in Las Vegas at the age of 91.