Levi died on 11 April 1987 after a fall from the interior landing of his third-story apartment in Turin to the ground floor below. The coroner ruled his death a suicide. Three of his biographers (Angier, Thomson and Anissimov) agreed although other writers (including at least one who knew him personally), after careful consideration, found no evidence that he had committed suicide. They felt that to conclude that he had taken his own life was to interpret his death in a way which was far from certain, although it was genuinely believed by many.