According to 2021 reporting from Billboard, Vicente Fernández was in the hospital when he died. About one year prior, he had a bad fall in his home which required surgery. At that time, Fernández's condition was described by his medical team as stable but critical (per Billboard). It was later revealed that Fernández was also diagnosed with an autoimmune condition known as Guillain–Barré syndrome, according to NPR. Months later, Fernández was still in the hospital as his condition fluctuated. Complications from spinal surgery and a case of pneumonia were later confirmed to be his cause of death, as Celebrity Net Worth notes. These were not the only health issues that the aging star endured late in life.

In 2012, Fernández had a renal infection and half of his liver was removed. Shortly thereafter, Fernández experienced pulmonary thrombosis, as Billboard explains. Around that same time, the singer also had surgery to repair a hernia. Upon his death, Vice President of Billboard magazine Leila Cob said (via NPR), "He would sing these songs with so much pathos and so much emotion, that grown men would cry, and he would cry. Perhaps because he was such a macho man, he could cry." With a career as long and as successful as Fernández had — he sold more than 60 million records and appeared in some 35 films — the Mexican baritone had an impressive net worth when he died, as Celebrity Net Worth explains.

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