Danny Gans Mystery Runs Deep

One Month Later…
The mystery continues to grow larger, and as rumors are quashed or lose ground, new ones spawn from this dark uncertainty.

Due to the fact that news and details are extremely scarce; Rumors, rumblings, and things that were overheard are sprouting up like weeds. You have the coroner’s office, friends, and family of Gans irritated by it, but really, what do you expect?
People want to know what happened, and when there are contradictions, and strange/odd things happening it only makes the mystery grow larger, deeper, and gives it life.

We all know everyone has a side of themselves that most rarely see. Often a darker side.
Gans is well know as a man of unflinching faith and conviction, passionate about performing, and even more passionate about his fans. A charitable celeb that didn’t donate for the publicity, a father, a husband, a friend, and said to be the best at all three.
As much as we want to believe that there were no dark secrets, no drugs, steroids, affairs, and so on; That he (Gans) just died of something unforeseen, something perhaps related to high blood pressure. You’d think we would have found that out by now if that was the case. You’d think….

We have received many requests to address some of the more possible and/or popular rumors that have been circulating. Since Gans had many fans across the world and details are scarce outside of Vegas.. heck, they are even scarce here if you read the Las Vegas Review Journal or Las Vegas Sun (both owned by the same company by the way)

Did Danny Gans Kill Himself intentionally, accidentally?

You have a friend/pastor saying he was depressed, down in the dumps the day he died. Yet you have his family saying he wasn’t depressed. Danny’s religious faith was deep, in one way this knocks down the suicide theory but if his image was just a long ongoing front, then emotions can run extremely high when someone can’t be their true self and drastic things can become the result. However there is nothing concrete to indicate that Gan’s faith, and devotion to family was at all fake. which leads to…

Did Danny overdose, have a bad reaction to Drugs and/or Steroids?

Folks have been making a connection with the Fact that Gans used to play baseball, suffered several injuries, and the fact that steroids has become more commonly used by stage performers, especially solo artist.
It has been speculated that Gans may have used steroids to help overcome the injuries while playing baseball and may have been using to keep up his act as he got older. Whether it has been all these years, occasionally, or just recently has been debated amongst insiders.
Performing on stage often can be more taxing on your body then one might think, although Gans dying at 52 is early, he wasn’t in his twenties/thirties obviously.
Last year, The Albany County District attorney David Soares launched a probe that indicated performers Mary J. Blige,
50 Cent, Timbaland, Wyclef Jean and actor Tyler Perry had allegedly ordered steroids or human growth hormone from doctors and pharmacists targeted in Soares’ investigation.
Was Gans using and did his heart become so weakened that he died or could have their been another similar reaction? or did he perhaps take too much? We contacted the Clark County Coroner’s office about this directly, and asked about rumors that there were marks on Gans’s body possibly indicating ‘track marks’ – or that needles were used by Mr. Gans. The coroner’s office denied these rumors and stated that there were no such marks found. We also asked for details of the type of testing that was done, to be more exact what exactly did they test for? we were told that all substances were tested for, even some of the substances that require more specific types of tests. There have been murmurings that the FBI has conducted their own test, we were told by the Clark Country Coroner’s office that unless the FBI did the testing at the hospital (where Gans was brought first from his home) then possibly, but she hadn’t heard anything of it and doubts that they (FBI) did. The Las Vegas division of the FBI did not return our inquires into this matter.
Gan’s friend and so called Vegas Queen of Gossip Alicia Jacobs told tabloid baby in an exclusive interview

“I would find it hard to believe that he would (be a drug abuser),” she said. “I can’t imagine how he would be taking pain killers or doing any drugs and function the way that he did. I can’t imagine that he would be able to do what he did. He really was an athlete when he was onstage.”

Which seems very naive, surely Ms. Jacobs being the ‘queen of gossip’ in this city knows that it is not difficult at all to hide drug use from friends and family, especially when the individual has a lot to lose.

Friends and associates have been said to believe that Gans was hiding his usage of steroids, and noted his facial characteristics changing as it took effect on him.

One Friend we spoke with shared an awkward moment he had with Gans when he told Danny that his head was getting big. “He (Gans) took it figuratively he said, but I meant literally“. he went on to say “I can’t say for sure if he took any kind of drugs or steroids and I honestly think if he did, very and I mean very few people knew about it; All I noticed was the change in appearance as others have, for me it was the size of his head increasing but I hate to throw salt of this wound, I can only imagine his family is going through a seriously rough time, more than we know.“

As more and more rumors point to Gan’s using steroids, at this stage it seems to be the strongest theory as to what may have caused Gans to suddenly die at age 52.

Talks of murder dim, but lingering

The rumors of Gans being murdered haven’t completely diminished here in Sin City. They have only altered and shifted in possible details.
At first people thinking money being the factor, now have gone more towards rumors of Gan’s having an affair. The woman rumored that Gans was possibly having an affair with? Why Alicia Jacobs of course.
Again, in the exclusive interview with Tabloid Baby ( here)
Alicia said in response to the rumors of her and Gans having a relationship

“No. Oh my gosh, no,”
“We were just very great friends.”

But you have a few out there saying something was odd about them. Those ‘few’ people have said that when seen together, they looked like a couple, or at least Alicia made it appear that way. “It was obvious how incredibly charmed she was by him” said one source. One source going as far as to call her “Gan’s biggest groupie“. The rumor of them having an affair has stuck around especially when Alicia shared her story about Gan’s giving her a bible, inscribing it, and how she cherished it every night. Plus other comments and Television appearances she has made seem to only add fuel to the rumor.
There was no doubt that her feelings for this man were deep but it could have been merely an infatuation that Danny never responded to, at least on the level Jacobs may have wanted. So the twist being slung is Gans possibly being poisoned in relation to the alleged affair. As we reported early on, this appears to be the weaker rumor that still happens to be floating.
Although Metro (LVMPD) has stated that they do not suspect foul play, a Metro source told us that “This early in the game, Metro will say that, even if they do suspect it. I know it’s not ruled out at this point“

So where are the Feds in all this?

Early on it was said that the FBI was involved in the case which wasn’t too much of a shock, being that the death involved a celebrity and Las Vegas being a place where high profile individuals’ death often comes with a mystery attached. Yet they have been relatively quite.
As we pointed out above that it is pretty slim that the Feds did their own testing, so it may just be that the FBI are merely waiting for the highly sought “Toxicology Report” and in conjunction with Metro, go from there.
At the time of this posting, the FBI had not gotten back to us.

So we wait… As irritation, and suspicion grow fiercer and it becomes clear that the delay in the Toxicology Results do not fit the time frame of other reports on other cases here in Las Vegas. Fans of Danny Gans along with writers/journalist (who are actually touching the story) share the frustration and anger. I’m sure even Mr. Gans’ family are eager themselves to find out. This mystery begs to be closed but something about it indicates that we may be far from it…

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