And while this may have happened in San Francisco it most certainly is a Hollywood murder insofar as it involves someone from the movie industry.
The article does not mention cause of death but how much do you want to bet drugs were involved?
This is becoming common with the Hollywood set; Rob Reiner's son murdered him and his wife recently and Nick Reiner was an incorrigible drug addict. We see this kind of thing all the time with these people.