Liberace kept denying he had AIDS/was homosexual until his very last breath, holding on to the illusion he had created. In front of his house, the press gathered, like a bunch of vultures, to have a glimpse of the dying entertainer.
The body was transported to Los Angeles for the funeral. They had to return to Palm Springs because a coroner wanted to do an autopsy to establish the cause of death.
Depriving a man of his final dignity, the coroner had to have his 15 minutes of fame on the press conference, I guess.