Family of Tony Scott Denies He Had Brain Cancer; Video of Suicide Being 'Shopped Around'

Fans and family are still wondering why Tony Scott committed suicide.

According to USA Today, the Los Angeles Coroner's office said that an autopsy was conducted on Scott Monday. A final cause of death, however, will not be available until toxicology and other test results are completed in several weeks

The "Top Gun" director died Sunday after jumping from a Los Angeles County bridge, police said. He was 68.

"I can confirm that Tony Scott has passed away. The family asks that their privacy is respected at this time," Scott's spokesman, Simon Halls, said in a statement.

ABC News initially reported on Monday that a source close to Scott said he had an inoperable brain tumor. The site later changed the story to say the "cancer report appears in doubt."

According to the Los Angeles Times, Craig Harvey, a chief for the coroner's office, said, "The family told us it is incorrect that he has inoperable brain cancer."

Furthermore, the coroner's office said that the autopsy will likely take weeks before to complete the investigation into the death of Scott.

Several people called 911 around 12:35 p.m. to report that someone had jumped from the Vincent Thomas Bridge spanning San Pedro and Terminal Island in Los Angeles Harbor.

"He was on the roadway close to the fence looking around. He was looking around and fumbling with something at his feet. He looked nervous," witness David Silva said in an interview with The Times. "I thought it was some extreme-sports guy."

Silva said Scott "paused a couple of seconds and then began to climb the fence. He put his foot on the top of the fence and paused again. And then he threw himself off. I immediately thought, that guy is dead."

At first, Silva and other motorists thought it was an extreme-sports stunt. Then they realized the jumper didn't have a parachute or safety cord.

Silva said he called 911 immediately.

Investigators found a note in Scott's black Toyota Prius, which was parked on the bridge, according to the Los Angeles Times. That note listed contact information. A suicide note was later found at his office.

TMZ reported that video of the jump is being "vigorously shopped around, for a price."

"Multiple people reached for their cell phone cameras when they noticed a man climbing over a fence on the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro in the middle of the day ... and continued to roll as he jumped off and plummeted to his death.

"Some people took photos ... some recorded video. The footage was also captured by a surveillance camera from a nearby business. "

Reports say that Scott was always an adrenaline junky. He was an avid rock climber and loved driving fast cars and motorcycles.

"It does not surprise me at all, knowing that Tony liked to scale high mountains," said Judy Myers, who dated Scott before he became famous and remained friends with him, according to the New York Post.

According to the LA Times, Joe Carnahan, who directed 2010's"The A-Team," which Scott produced, said Scott must have been experiencing an "unbreachable level of pain" and called his death "powerfully sad."

"If there was indeed something terminally ill about Tony, this is the way he would go out: big and facing death, without shrinking away from it," Carnahan said. "He wouldn't wait for death. The idea of death encroaching, coming for him? No, Tony would be the first one to ride out and find the death, he wouldn't wait to waste away. He would have gone right into the heart of it."

Scott was reportedly making a "Top Gun" sequel, one of his biggest film hits of his directing career.

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