SINGAPORE -
Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman's father died in Singapore on
Friday after suffering an apparent heart attack at The Tanglin Club
where he had been staying.
Dr Antony Kidman, a renowned clinical psychologist, is believed to
have collapsed when he was at the club's Wheelhouse restaurant,
after completing his morning exercise. A doctor who was present
tried to resuscitate the 75-year-old.
A spokesman for the Singapore Civil Defence Force confirmed that it
received a call at about 8.10am on Friday requesting for medical
assistance at 5 Stevens Road, where the club is located. When
paramedics arrived shortly after, a few members of the public were
already performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation on a Caucasian man
in the restaurant, the spokesman added.
Paramedics carried on trying to resuscitate him on the way to Tan
Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH). Police confirmed that he was pronounced
dead at TTSH at 9.54am. They are investigating the unnatural
death.
Dr Kidman was staying at The Tanglin Club as his son-in-law is a
member there.
He had been visiting his younger daughter, Antonia, 44, who lives
in Singapore with her banker husband and their six children.
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