What was Martha Mitchell’s cause of death?

Martha Mitchell was the wife of John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General under President Richard Nixon.

Martha Mitchell faced a lot of shame and embarrassment which extended to President Richard M. Nixon because of her comments to the media about the government at the time of the Watergate scandal.

Just prior to the complete unravelling of the Watergate cover-up, she accompanied John Mitchell to California on a campaign visit.

While there, and after her husband left her to return to Washington, she was kept in her hotel room by a security guard. When she tried to escape she was physically abused.

Martha Mitchell was Presbyterian and, while in New York, attended Marble Collegiate Church.

Martha Mitchell began to write her memoirs in 1973, but fearing it would mean she would get no money from her husband, never signed a contract.

In 1975, Mitchell fell sick and as her health declined, she was called on by a small circle of friends that included her reporter friend, and eventual biographer, Winzola McLendon who reported that Mitchell was suicidal and without any income.

Martha Mitchell’s lawyer, in an ongoing alimony dispute, described her as “desperately ill, without funds and without friends.”

In Martha Mitchell’s final days, she subsisted on donations sent by sympathetic supporters.

What was Martha Mitchell’s cause of death? How did Martha Mitchell die?

On May 31, 1976, in the advanced stages of multiple myeloma (a cancer that forms in a type of white blood cell called a plasma cell), Martha Mitchell slipped into a coma and died at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York City, aged 57.