Shah of Iran’s Son Commits Suicide in Boston, Say Reports

According to his family, Prince Ali Reza Pahlavi took his own life Tuesday night.

Police would not confirm statements from the Pahlavi family, but did say that a man in his mid-40s was found dead of a gunshot wound in a Boston residence Tuesday night. Ali Reza Pahlavi, the youngest son of the former shah, had been living in the U.S. since the 1979 Iranian Revolution that ousted his father and was pursuing on a post-graduate degree in Iranian studies at Harvard. Ulike other members of his family had remained largely silent about recent political turmoil in his homeland. It is only the latest tragedy to befall the Pahlavi family: the shah himself died in 1980 soon after being deposed, and his daughter Leila was found dead of a drug overdose in a London hotel in 2001.