Why John Lurie disappeared

Fascinating piece in The New Yorker this week by Tad Friend titled "Sleeping with Weapons: A Lounge Lizard Vanishes."

An excerpt from this John Lurie feature:

A year and a half ago, however, at the age of fifty-six, Lurie disappeared. What happened first was that Lurie was stricken with a mysterious disease that confined him to his SoHo apartment for six years. Then, in 2008, he and his closest friend, a younger artist named John Perry, had an explosive rupture, and Lurie went into hiding in the belief that Perry intended to kill him. This was a reasonable point of view, as Perry was stalking him. In October, Lurie began living incognito in a rented house in Palm Springs, California.

Which reminds me that I need to rewatch the "Fishing with John" series from 1991...