Suicide at Mel's Place

Posted Mar 19th 2008 7:39PM by TMZ Staff

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ a construction worker committed suicide at one of Mel Gibson's homes today.

It happened at Mel's Agoura Hills home -- near Malibu. The construction worker was 48-years-old. We're told he hanged himself. The body was found by the job site foreman.

The Sheriff's substation in Lost Hills took the call at 8:07 AM -- that's the same station where Mel was taken after his DUI arrest in 2006.

Mel was not at the house when the body was discovered. A law enforcement source says no one from Gibson's family was living at the house -- it is currently under heavy construction.

The house is less than a mile from his church -- The Holy Family Catholic Church -- where Mel's daughter was married back in September, 2006.

Mel has never lived on the compound.

UPDATE: Law enforcement sources say the body was found hanging in the addition to the home that was being built and was in "full-body rigor mortis" and the hanging could have occurred last night.

Story developing ...

Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Mel Gibson

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16. I did it for you Damien, all for you!

Posted at 6:35PM on Mar 19th 2008 by tracyanne

17. What a selfish jerk for doing it at someone else's house. Now the Gibson's will forever know that someone killed himself at their home. Yuck.

Posted at 6:35PM on Mar 19th 2008 by LeeLee

18. I think the guy died from an accident, not suicide. He was probably standing on a ladder with a corded power tool in his hand, and Mel probably popped his drunken head out a window and yelled "FREEEEEEEEEDOMMMMMMMMMM!!!" and the guy got surprised and fell and accidentally hunged himself with the power cord. Mel is just trying to cover it up by calling it a suicide, with the help of his corrupt sherrif deputy drinking buddies. Corrupt crooked bastards.

Posted at 6:36PM on Mar 19th 2008 by Rico

19. If you hang one contractor early in the project, maybe the others will come in on time and under budget.

Posted at 6:36PM on Mar 19th 2008 by FlBiker

20. Albert you have been officially chastised. ouch!

Posted at 6:37PM on Mar 19th 2008 by carpediem

21. If they find that Mel was counceling him, they'd probably be able to sue.

Posted at 6:39PM on Mar 19th 2008 by Mel's a quack

22. Pictures are HUNG...People are HANGED

Posted at 6:39PM on Mar 19th 2008 by elaine

23. Mel stay away from britney,She leaves her bad luck on everyone she hang with.

Posted at 6:42PM on Mar 19th 2008 by vari

24. Why didn't he have the guts to do it on his own property as this was terribly unfair to Mel Gibson and his Family!

Important to understand.... When we commit suicide, our soul lessons begin (again) from Point A in the next life. No matter how challenging this life, suicide is never the answer. For those with substance abuse issues, get professional help as many suicides take place under the long-term influence of illegal and/or legal pharmaceutical drugs.

Our country's economic issues are more serious than most people realize right now, and it's important to remember in the times ahead that money is never a reason to take one's own life....that happened a lot in the 1920s Stock Market Crash.

Posted at 6:42PM on Mar 19th 2008 by lifeisprecious

25. CNN asks for comments and then censors them
I feel more freedom of expression on TMZ

Posted at 6:44PM on Mar 19th 2008 by erin

26. Mel is Great! Love him! Fantastic actor and amazing director. Unfortunately not much seen since 2006....

Posted at 6:46PM on Mar 19th 2008 by Lana

27. #24 Rico, I got a damn good laugh!

Posted at 6:47PM on Mar 19th 2008 by Lenn K.

28. HANGED is correct......Hung: used as follows....when you want to know if a guy is well hung...get it!!!???

Posted at 6:49PM on Mar 19th 2008 by not a dumb ass

29. Stab with dread and pain
I'm awaken in the mist of horror, within the darkest hour
As shadows of death bleeds through wall of sorrow
They touch the darken soul, daze without care, in seeing a tomorrow

I sway along to their melody of inhuman cries, as I'm fed the Serpent of Wrath
Its obscurity and rage rush through my dried vein
Leaving the sweet sinful taste of hate
That skin slither the Garden of Eden, devouring its precious forbidden apples

Rebirth I feel, into this meaningless existence, I twist its balance
For I'm crowned as its dark Queen, as Chaos is my demon King
These mindless mortals shall bow and serve
Living in their most unpleasant dream, as they dances within the bloody stream.

I welcome all into my kingdom of torment
Faces fill with lies
Where darkness live in disguise

Posted at 6:51PM on Mar 19th 2008 by BankClaim

30. A suicide
Quick!Tell the coroner young Blake has died
He suffered from a severe case of suicide
No one yet has learned the truth
Such a sad waste of life and youth
A scene of blood mixed with violence and gore
And there lay you blake dead on the floor

His hands still clenched onto his gun
His note sad nothing but “I suppose Im done”
Yet in the one eye still visible to see
A tear was apparent but as dark as the sea
There must have been pain in this young boys heart
Though that’s what the first bullet tore right apart

Also wounds on both of his wrists
Telling his story and life in a twist
No chance of survival after so many tactics
Whatever he wanted he was sure to attack it
So terrible is such a young ones ascension
Yet its quite apparent that was his intention.

Posted at 6:55PM on Mar 19th 2008 by BankClaim

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