CHICAGO — Celebrity chef Charlie Trotter died from a stroke, according to an autopsy report.
Tests showed Trotter, 54, died from a stroke related to high blood pressure, Cook County Medical Examiner Stephen Cina said in a statement Monday.
Cina said neither drugs nor alcohol contributed to Trotter’s death on Nov. 5 in Chicago, adding there was “no scientific evidence” that Trotter’s recent travels contributed to his death.
Trotter’s wife has said the acclaimed chef, named the country’s Outstanding Chef by the James Beard Foundation in 1999, had an aneurysm months before he died and that he’d been taking medicine to control seizures, his blood pressure and high cholesterol.
Rochelle Trotter previously said that the aneurysm was discovered in January and that doctors had prescribed the “proper medication.”