Light may be shed on the last moments of a legend

At 11.30pm on July 20, 1973, doctors at Queen Elizabeth Hospital pronounced kung fu star Bruce Lee dead. The news stunned not only Hong Kong but the international film world that lay at the 32-year- old martial arts star's feet.

But it was far from the end of the Bruce Lee story. An initial cover-up about the circumstances of Lee's demise fuelled wild rumours about his death.

At first it appeared simple, if tragic. The media pack waiting at the hospital were told Lee had died at his home at 41 Cumberland Road, which he shared with his wife, Linda, and two children, Brandon and Shannon. But within days the truth emerged - he had died in another woman's bed.

At 5pm that day, Golden Harvest boss Raymond Chow and Lee had arrived at actress Betty Ting Pei's flat in Beacon Hill Road, Kowloon Tong, to discuss the script for The Deadly Game - a film the actress was to star in.

Lee later complained of headache and nausea so the actress gave him a prescription painkiller, Equagesic. Lee then slept in Ting's bed. At some point Chow left the flat alone to attend a dinner with actor George Lazenby, a meeting the others were to join later.

But when Ting tried to rouse Lee later that night, she couldn't wake him. Chow rushed back to the flat and called an ambulance. The kung fu star died that night.

In 1990, Chow said Linda had asked him to not say Lee had been taken from Ting's flat.