Studio 54 founder Mark Fleischman's wife Mimi reveals icon's FINAL WORDS
Late Mark Fleischman, 82, the king of 1980s nightlife and the former owner of the nightclub Studio 54, spent $15,000 booking a first-class, one-way flight to Zurich, home of the famed Dignitas suicide clinic. After two years of battling an illness that doctors haven't been able to diagnose - but which he claims left him unable to move unaided - Fleischman drank a lethal dose of barbiturates to end his life.
“I can’t walk, my speech is f–ked up and I can’t do anything for myself. My wife helps me get into bed and I can’t dress or put on my shoes. I am taking a gentle way out. It is the easiest way out for me", Fleischman told The New York Post in June when he was confined to his wheelchair. Fleischman's wife of 27 years, Mimi Fleischman, told the Post it was a surreal experience as he took the sodium pentothal. ''We looked at each other like, 'This is crazy in a way.' My feeling was, 'Wow. I can't believe this is happening,''' she said.