by the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office showed that he had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with focal coronary atherosclerosis and died from heart failure, which he had been diagnosed with the year prior. His burial was in the Jewish cemetery Hillside Memorial Park. Tributes Rick Santorum, Reince Priebus, Mitt Romney, Jonah Goldberg, Joel Pollak, Sarah Palin, Matt Drudge, Sean Hannity, Michael Steele, Tucker Carlson, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Newt Gingrich paid tribute to Breitbart. Santorum called Breitbart's death "a huge loss" that strongly affected him. Romney praised Breitbart as a "fearless conservative," while Gingrich remembered him as "the most innovative pioneer in conservative activist social media in America". A special episode of Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld'' aired the day after his death as the host and panelists paid their tributes and showed clips from his appearances on the show. Works References External links 1969 births 2012 deaths 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers Activists from California American Zionists American adoptees American agnostics American alternative journalists American bloggers American male bloggers American male non-fiction writers American online journalists American people of Irish descent American political commentators American political writers Breitbart News people Brentwood School (Los Angeles) alumni Burials at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery California Republicans Deaths from cardiomyopathy Deaths from congestive heart failure Deaths from coronary artery disease HuffPost Jewish American journalists Jewish American writers Jewish agnostics National Review people People from Brentwood, Los Angeles Tea Party movement activists The Washington Times people Tulane University alumni Writers from Los Angeles