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Federal agents recently conducted interviews in Indianapolis with ‘multiple people’ close to Super Bowl winner
Published Jan 22, 2026 • 2 minute read
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FILE -Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay speaks during a news conference at the NFL football team’s practice facility Monday, Nov. 7, 2022, in Indianapolis. Photo by Darron Cummings /THE ASSOCIATED PRESSArticle content
The death of former Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay as well as the doctor who provided him with prescription pills and ketamine in the final months of his life are reportedly being investigated by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Federal investigators, according to a grand jury subpoena reviewed by the Washington Post, are asking for records and information about Irsay’s May 2025 death including his “substance (illegal and prescription) use,” as well as his “relationship” with California-based addiction specialist Dr. Harry Haroutunian.
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A U.S. District Court in Los Angeles issued the subpoena earlier this month after federal agents conducted interviews in Indianapolis with “multiple people” close to the Super Bowl winner in the years before his death, the Post reported, citing two people with knowledge of the investigation who were granted anonymity.
Doctor in same hotel when Irsay died
The FBI’s field office in Los Angeles had not commented on the investigation after being asked about it, the Post said. The newspaper also said Haroutunian had not replied to messages seeking a comment on their report.
Irsay was vacationing in Los Angeles when he died at the age of 65. He was staying at the Beverly Hills Hotel at the time along with Haroutunian, who was overseeing his treatment, according to the Post.
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Haroutunian had also signed Irsay’s death certificate, the Post said, which blamed cardiac arrest caused by pneumonia and heart issues. Beverly Hills police closed their investigation days later despite no autopsy being performed.
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The Post had earlier revealed that Irsay, who struggled with addiction and overdosed multiple times in the years before his death, had secretly relapsed and was allegedly getting opioid pills and ketamine from the doctor in “amounts that alarmed several people close to the longtime Colts owner.”
“I dedicated 18 months of my life to try to care for him … as a brother,” Haroutunian, a former physician director at the famed Betty Ford Clinic, told the Post last summer. “We did everything we could to make him as comfortable as possible.”
Ketamine has made headlines in recent years, especially in the wake of Canadian actor Matthew Perry’s death.
Multiple people, including those who provided him with the drug, have pleaded guilty to charges after an autopsy ruled the former Friends star died from the “acute effects of ketamine” after his body was found in a hot tub in October 2023.
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