Owner of haunted Amityville house dies
 
LAS VEGAS, May 10 (UPI) -- George Lee Lutz, whose house became known
worldwide as "The Amityville Horror," died in Las Vegas Wednesday at age
59.
Lutz had been suffering from heart disease, E! Online reported.

The 1975 28-day stay of the Lutz family at the haunted house in
Amityville, N.Y., spawned books, films, Web sites and endless
speculation, E! noted.

Lutz bought the 4,000-square-foot home for only $80,000 a year after six
former residents of the house had been killed in various rooms by the
family's eldest son.

The Lutzes reported hearing voices, mysteriously unlocking doors and
windows and green slime dripping from the walls and ceiling.
After several Hollywood movies and books, they wrote their own account
in 1997, E! said.
Lutz filed suit against MGM for its 2005 remake of "The Amityville
Horror," saying it fabricated and exaggerated the goings on while his
family lived in the house.

"People are disrespecting a true story," he told People. "It's my
family's story and it's hurtful."
He divorced his wife, Kathy, in the late 1980s but the couple stayed
close and she died of emphysema in 2004, E! said.