A man named
Neil Thomas Ward wrote online "In Search of a Lost Film", published on March 5th 2018 in 'Medium', and claims in it that
C.S. Leigh died in early 2016. He doesn't present any hard proof, only a very elaborate story about his decade-long search for
Process (2004), which is out of distribution, and his strange friendship with Leigh. In spite of some Wikipedia sites using Ward's claim as factual truth, neither a proof nor an official statement exists, that he really died in London, England, UK, in 2016. Since Leigh owes many people large sums of money, it might be simply a new strategy to escape his creditors by using disinformation and a new facade.