Former child star Gary Coleman, who shot to fame on television sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes" but suffered personal and financial woes as an adult, has died in a Utah hospital after being taken off life support, according to media reports on Friday. Celebrity website RadarOnline.com said Coleman, 42, was taken off life support on Friday, and similar reports were filed by showbiz site TMZ.com and by CNN, citing a spokeswoman at the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo, Utah. The spokeswoman, who earlier issued a statement saying the actor had been put on life support following a brain hemorrhage this week, was not immediately available for confirmation. TMZ.com said the actor's wife Shannon made the decision to take her husband off life support, and he died at 12:05 pm mdt, (6:05 gmt). The diminutive Coleman, who suffered from a congenital kidney disease that halted his growth, was hospitalized after suffering an intracranial hemorrhage Wednesday night at his home in Santaquin, Utah. The following day he was "conscious and lucid" in the morning, but in the afternoon his condition worsened, he slipped into unconsciousness and was placed on life support. "We are saddened to announce that since mid-afternoon, Mountain Time, on May 27, 2010, Mr. Coleman has been unconscious and on life support," his manager John Alcantar said in the statement released on Friday morning by the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. Alcantar was not immediately available. Coleman gained fame <b>...</b>