Editing Robert Vesco (section)

==Death and Speculation==
Vesco reportedly died of lung cancer on November 23, 2007, in a Havana hospital, aged 71, and was buried at Colón Cemetery on November 24, per a Cuban burial record cited by The New York Times. Photographs and videos showed a man resembling Vesco in a hospital bed and casket, with his Cuban companion, Lidia Alfonso Llauger, present. However, his death was not publicly reported by Cuban authorities, who deemed him a “nonissue,” and U.S. officials were unaware, fueling speculation. Arthur Herzog, his biographer, suggested Vesco, a “master of disguises,” might have faked his death, noting a Havana contact claimed to have spoken to him post-2007. No DNA test confirmed the body, leaving his fate uncertain.