Victor Conte cause of death: How the BALCO founder and MLB scandal figure die at 75

Victor Conte, the man behind Major League Baseball’s biggest steroid scandal, passed away at age 75 on November 3, 2025. He was best known as the founder of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO), which supplied steroids to top athletes in the early 2000s. Conte’s sports nutrition company, SNAC, confirmed that he had been battling pancreatic cancer. All details in this story are confirmed by official and trusted sources.