LONDON -- Music producer David Gest and ex-husband of Liza Minnelli died at a hotel in London on Tuesday. He was 62.
Imad Handi, a friend of Gest, confirmed the news in a statement:
Police responded to an "unexplained death" at the hotel on Tuesday morning, Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
The cause of death has not been released. An autopsy is pending, police said.
Gest married Minelli in 2002. The couple divorced in 2007.