Editing Nick Zedd (section)

== Personal life and death ==
An outsider artist throughout his life, Zedd never enjoyed commercial success with his films. By the mid-1980s, he regularly resorted to side hustles (such as being a taxi driver), to make ends meet. Peter LeVasseur, Zedd's acquaintance at the time and a former East Village squatter, suggests that he contracted hepatitis C, during that period, from intravenous drug use. "It had to be from intravenous drug use," LeVasseur says. "He seemed to be on [[heroin]] and [[cocaine|coke]] — both were fashionable at the time, the [[speedball (drug)|combo]]. This was when he was at his deepest, worst part. The pallor, his eyes and sunken cheeks. If you got in his car you’d be afraid".<ref name="thevillagesun.com">{{cite web|access-date=November 3, 2024|date=March 2, 2022|title=Nick Zedd, East Village transgressive filmmaker, dies at 63|url=https://thevillagesun.com/nick-zedd-east-village-transgressive-filmmaker-dies-at-63|newspaper=The Village Sun}}</ref>

Zedd died from complications from [[cirrhosis of the liver]], [[cancer]], and [[hepatitis C]], in Mexico City, on February 27, 2022, at the age of 63.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=March 5, 2022|date=February 28, 2022|title=NICK ZEDD (1958–2022)|url=https://www.artforum.com/news/nick-zedd-1958-2022-88031|work=[[Artforum]]}}</ref> He was survived by his partner of 15 years, Monica Casanova, as well as a son and a step-daughter.<ref name="thevillagesun.com"/>