Hollywood icon Tommy Lee Jones’s child star daughter found dead in luxury hotel aged just 34
Tommy Lee Jones’ daughter, Victoria, was found dead in a luxury hotel in San Francisco in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day, at the age of 34.
The San Francisco Fire Department told the Daily Mail they responded to a call for medical assistance at the Fairmont address at 2:52 a.m. Thursday.
Medical teams arriving at the scene determined that one person had died. The San Francisco Police Department and the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office also responded, but the cause of death is unknown at this time.
‘A white woman in her mid-30s was found unresponsive and hotel staff were alerted,’ a source told the Daily Mail. ‘CPR was administered but he was pronounced dead by the emergency/ambulance team responding to the scene.’ The Daily Mail confirmed the woman was Victoria.
The news was first reported by . TMZHe said the scene was turned over to the police department after he was pronounced dead.
Jones welcomed Victoria and son Austin, 42, with his second wife, Kimberlea Cloughley, to whom he was married from 1981 to 1996.
The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Tommy Lee Jones, as well as Fairmont San Francisco and the San Francisco Police Department, for comment.
Tommy Lee Jones’ daughter, Victoria, was found dead at the age of 34 in a luxury hotel room in San Francisco in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day.
Jones shares Victoria and son Austin, 42, with his second wife, Kimberlea Cloughley, to whom he was married from 1981 to 1996; Photo of Jones, Cloughley and Victoria in 2002
A spokesperson for the San Francisco Police Department told the Daily Mail: ‘On 1/26/2014 at approximately 3:14 a.m., San Francisco Police officers responded to a hotel in the 900 block of Mason Street regarding a report of a deceased person.’
The statement continued: ‘Police spoke with paramedics at the scene and determined that the adult woman had died. Forensic Medicine came to the scene and investigated. Anyone with information is asked to contact SFPD at 415-575-4444 or send a Tip to TIP411, starting the message with SFPD.’
Victoria Kafka Jones was born on September 3, 1991, and made her film debut in 2002 with a small role in her father’s film Men in Black II.
He was involved in a number of acting projects during his childhood, including a 2005 episode of One Tree Hill and a Western film directed by his father, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, the same year.
Although she hasn’t acted since her role as a teenage cheerleader on One Tree Hill, she has occasionally attended the red carpet with Jones as an adult.
In 2017, she proudly posed next to him at the premiere of Just Getting Started, which also starred Morgan Freeman and Rene Russo, at ArcLight Hollywood.
He also appeared with his father in October 2017 at the opening of that year’s Tokyo International Film Festival, where he chaired the international competition jury.
Jones praised his daughter in a 2006 interview promoting The Three Burials of Melquiades after directing the film.
‘He’s a good actor, has a SAG card and speaks perfect Spanish,’ he said. ‘When he was a baby, I told his nurse, Leticia, to speak to him in Spanish.’
He also told a moving anecdote about having to accustom his then-14-year-old daughter to the rigors of working on a Hollywood movie set.
‘He had to get up at 5am for himself. One morning he couldn’t get out of bed. I said, ‘Honey, this is business.’ But he did not compromise,” he said. New Yorker.
‘So I kicked him out. “Then the production team went to him without telling me, woke him up and took him to the set just in time,” he recalled.
