Tihar jail officials said Ram Singh appeared to have hanged himself with an improvised rope made from a blanket at about 05:00 local time on Monday (23:30 GMT Sunday) while his three cellmates were asleep.
But gone are the days of jaw-dropping liplocks (Where were you, Madge?), wildly inappropriate (and wildly entertaining) speeches and scantily clad starlets (rapper Lil' Kim, newly released from prison, gave a shout-out to former cellmates but was, disappointingly, covered up).