He stopped competing entirely in the very early 1990s due to the increasing pain his illness was causing him, retiring to his winery in France. His heart finally failed him in 1993, and Roussimoff died in his sleep at a hotel in Paris while in town for his father's funeral. He was cremated and his ashes were spread over his ranch in Ellerbe, North Carolina.
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He had a disease where his pituitary gland made his body keep growing and never stop growing and he got sicker and sicker and he eventually died in his sleep
Andre the Giant died from Congestive Heart Failure in 1993. He died in his sleep in a Hotel room in Paris while attending his father's funeral.