Overview
- Robinson, 31, was found unresponsive in her villa in Zanzibar on Thursday, April 9, and died at a hospital on Friday, April 10, according to family accounts and multiple reports.
- Zanzibar police say hotel staff separated Robinson and fiancé Joe McCann after a dispute, and investigators have interviewed him, withheld his passport, and made no arrests as they await an official medical report.
- Early local accounts relayed a possible suicide, but reported hospital documents cited by WPVI and TMZ list cerebral hypoxia by strangulation and suffocation and note a mark around her neck, which her family calls suspicious.
- Relatives say McCann told them hours after the incident that she was stable and then stopped communicating, and the family has launched a GoFundMe to cover travel, repatriation, and other costs as they seek information.
- Zuri Zanzibar says it is cooperating with authorities and the U.S. Embassy, and officials caution that definitive findings require autopsy and toxicology results that can take time in cross‑border investigations.