Before his death, legendary actor Val Kilmer, best known as Tom “Iceman” Kazansky in the Top Gun Franchise, was on the verge of publishing a list of Hollywood’s most prolific pedophiles before he died suddenly, two people who had known Kilmer for over 20 years told Real Raw News.
Kilmer died on April 1, presumably from pneumonia, according to his personal physician, Dr. Talibard Ricks, and Dr. Jeremy Miranda at the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office. Irrespective of those conclusions, our sources believe Kilmer was murdered to prevent him from releasing the list and that his doctor and the medical examiner are complicit in a conspiracy to conceal the truth.
Let’s digress momentarily and explore facts about Kilmer’s health before passing. In 2015, Kilmer was diagnosed with throat cancer after discovering a nodule behind his tonsils that began to impede his speech. Due to his Christian Science beliefs, he did not seek medical treatment until the lump enlarged to the point where swallowing became painful. He eventually underwent two tracheotomies, as well as chemotherapy, that further damaged his vocal cords. He chronicled his health struggles in I’m Your Huckleberry: A Memoir, published in 2020. In April 2017, Kilmer said he had experienced a “healing of cancer,” which he ascribed to homeopathic remedies, prayer, and treatment at the UCLA medical campus. In 2020, Kilmer told Fox News and the Hollywood Reporter he had been cancer-free for four years. In January 2024, Kilmer came down with a case of mild pneumonia, which he self-cured through regimented doses of vitamin C, zinc, ivermectin, and a home-brewed tea made of cayenne pepper.
Former colleagues of Kilmer’s interviewed for this article said news of Kilmer dying from pneumonia shocked them to the core because they had seen and communicated with him less than a week earlier, and that he seemed in reasonably good health and had even laughed at jokes through the aid of his voice box. Two sources, one a confidante to the Kilmer family, said they believe Kilmer was “silenced” to stop him from releasing an expose on Hollywood’s most egregious pedophiles that, if made public, would upend Tinsel Town and collapse the motion picture industry.
One source, who had worked alongside Kilmer in the 1995 blockbuster Heat, described Kilmer as a humble man, a man of conscience who, despite his achievements and wealth, lived an unassuming, unpretentious life, and that Kilmerwas unwilling to shed his mortal coil without leaving behind a legacy-shaping event exclusive of his cinematic achievements. He had an impetus to benefit humanity—by revealing the identities of pedos preying on young Hollywood newcomers since 1983, when the then-22-year-old Julliard-trained actor began appearing on Broadway, a precursor to his distinguished Hollywood career.
After Kilmer fell ill in 2015, he told the source that an elderly production assistant made crude sexual advances in 1983 while he was rehearsing for the Slab Boys, a Broadway production starring Kilmer, Kevin Bacon, Sean Penn, and Jackie Earle Haley. The unnamed producer allegedly hoped to introduce Kilmer to homosexuality and had even flashed his penis. Kilmer, 22 at the time, rebuffed the overture, which apparently ended the incident. However, a year later Kilmer starred in his first motion picture, Top Secret!, and encountered identical and worse deviant behavior. He witnessed a Paramount Pictures executive railing an underage male in a dressing room.
“Val was in a tough spot, caught between wanting to advance his own career and internalizing the depravity around him. He was old enough to escape unwanted attention, but younger kids just getting started couldn’t, and he saw the shit they had to deal with,” the source said.
According to the source, Kilmer also witnessed or learned of child molestation taking place on the sets of Real Genius (1985) and Willow (1988), but what most rattled him was knowing he had befriended the industry’s most notorious pedophile.
“In 2015, Val told me the name,” the source said. “I can’t really say it was a surprise.”
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