Casey Johnson's death was from untreated diabetes, coroner says

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Casey Johnson, heiress to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, died of natural causes related to diabetes, the Los Angeles County coroner said Thursday.

Johnson, 30, may have been dead as long as two days before her body was found January 4 by a friend who was letting her stay in a guest house, according to the autopsy report made public Thursday.

The socialite had "a long history of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus that was poorly-controlled," the coroner said. She had been hospitalized at least twice because she did not take her insulin, the report said.