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Artist Hockney's assistant died after drinking acid: inquest

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 12:27 PM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - An assistant to British artist David Hockney died after drinking drain cleaner at the painter's home following a drug and alcohol binge, a coroner ruled on Friday. Dominic Elliott, 23, was the subject of a number of portraits by Hockney, one of Britain's most influential living artists famous for colorful landscapes and portraits. Hockney, 76, said in a statement on Friday that he was asleep and unaware that Elliott had drunk the liquid after taking cocaine, ecstasy, alcohol and cannabis with his partner John Fitzherbert. ...

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