Michael Wright's Final Days: The Heartbreaking End of a Hollywood Star

“The Five Heartbeats” star Michael Wright has died. He was 70.

The actor died Wednesday in Los Angeles after suffering heart failure and complications from Marchiafava-Bignami, a rare degenerative neurological disease, his family told TMZ.

Wright was best known for playing talented but troubled singer Eddie King Jr. in the 1991 musical drama “The Five Heartbeats.”