If Belushi lived like a rock star, he also died like one. At the time of his 1982 passing, he was in Hollywood, while his wife Judy was at their home in New York. In "Wired," she told Woodward that she didn't talk to her husband much in his last week and she feared he was still abusing drugs on an epic scale.
Belushi was holed up at the Chateau Marmont with a drug dealer on March 4 when some of his celebrity friends stopped by. They later told Shawn Levy, author of "The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont," that the space was trashed and the vibe in the room was off-putting. By noon the following morning, Belushi was dead, discovered by his personal trainer, who burst into tears after trying to perform CPR, per Biography.
Belushi's tombstone reads: "I may be gone, but Rock and Roll lives on." It's a sad yet defiant message that seems to have inspired others to party on; according to Time, the "Blues Brothers" star's body had to be taken to an unmarked burial plot away from the tombstone because people had trashed the area around the Martha's Vineyard site where the tombstone sits.
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