Douglas Leopold, nicknamed Coco (c. 1944 – April 4, 1993),[1] was a television and radio personality in Quebec, along with being a public relations specialist.
[3] Leopold was openly gay and earned the nickname Coco because he peppered his speech with this expression, as a form of punctuation.
[4] Two decades later, the case was reopened by the New York City Police, who received statements from a number of witnesses which linked Montpetit to the murder.
[5] A few months before his death Leopold continued to claim publicly that he was in perfect health and did not have AIDS,[6] he died due to this illness on 6 April 1993, at the Chris Brownlie Hospice in Los Angeles.
[2] A fictionalised version of Leopold, played by Paul Doucet, is one of the central characters in the 2010 Canadian film Funkytown.