In the early morning hours of Oct. 31, 1993, Hollywood lost one of its brightest young stars. River Phoenix , the 23-year-old actor whose talent and charisma had made him a generational icon, collapsed outside the Viper Room nightclub in West Hollywood. Within an hour, he was pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

In the third episode of “ Variety Confidential : The Life and Legend of River Phoenix,” produced in partnership with iHeartPodcasts, the podcast transitions from the moment that the actor’s world began to unravel on the set of “My Own Private Idaho” to the final year of his life. Joining host Tatiana Siegel are some of the people closest to Phoenix during that pivotal time frame, including his girlfriend at the time, Samantha Mathis, and his close friend and confida

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