On July 20 they were fulfilled 43 years since the death of the considered King of Martial Arts, Bruce Lee. It seems that his death occurred between a great pain and a lot of mystery.
Did the Chinese Mafia assassinate him? His lover working for the Chinese Mafia? Did he die from the medication he took to withstand his over-training? How he died?
It all happened in the house where Bruce read the script for his next film, with a Chinese actress named Betty Ting Pei. After a severe headache, she gave him a "harmless" pain reliever. Bruce took it, fell asleep, and would no longer wake up.
From then on, everything has been rumors and speculation. Among them, that Betty poisoned him. Between the data, the Chinese actress left her film career a few years later and became a Buddhist nun.
Among the explanations to the death of the kung fu master, It has been said that the Chinese mafia surely blackmailed the actress. Let us remember that Bruce Lee brought the most ancient Chinese martial arts cinema to Hollywood. Along with the beginnings of his films in China, the most important success would come from "Operation Dragon", a film directed in the United States by Robert Clouse.
It seems that the girl mafia of that time never saw with good eyes that those "secrets" of the most traditional martial arts were commercialized in American commercial cinema.
In any case, most likely his death resulted from a seizure of epilepsy, which is known in medical terms as the "sudden unexpected death syndrome", according to studies carried out many years later.
The myth, the legend, continues to feed long after his life, and also his death. Let us remember that his son Brandon Lee also died in strange circumstances during the filming of the movie "The Raven" in 1993.