Joseph Eugene "Joey" Kovar (died August 17, 2012) was an American model and reality television star and bodybuilder who first appeared in the twentieth season of MTV's The Real World, The Real World: Hollywood, in 2008. In 2010, Kovar appeared as a patient on the VH1 reality show, Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, for treatment of addictions to alcohol, cocaine, ecstasy, methamphetamines, and steroids.
Joey Kovar died of an opiate intoxication August 17, 2012, at the age of 29. He was discovered with blood coming out of his nose and ears at an apartment building in 9800 block of South Sayre Avenue in Chicago Ridge, Illinois. Kovar was pronounced dead at the scene shortly before 9 a.m. An initial autopsy proved inconclusive. Kovar's family stated there were no signs of alcohol or drugs found in his system, and believed he had been sober for approximately six months while he pursued acting, but a later autopsy indicated that Kovar succumbed to "opiate intoxication".
He was survived by a 3-year-old son and 2 year-old daughter.
He became the third former Real World cast member to die, after Pedro Zamora and Frankie Abernathy, and was one of three cast members from Season 3 of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew to die, along with Mike Starr and Mindy McCready.
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