Victoria Jones’ household has launched a press release following her demise.
“We recognize the entire variety phrases, ideas, and prayers. Please respect our privateness throughout this tough time,” the household mentioned through a press release to Us Weekly on Friday, January 2.
Victoria was discovered useless at 34 within the Fairmont San Francisco lodge on Thursday, January 1. The San Francisco Hearth Division confirmed to Us Weekly that they responded to “a report of a medical emergency” on the lodge within the early hours of Thursday morning.
“Upon arrival, paramedics from the fireplace division carried out an evaluation. The individual was declared deceased,” the assertion learn. “SFPD and the health worker’s workplace had been referred to as to the scene. Scene turned over to SFPD and SF Medical Examiners.”
A 911 name launched on Friday, January 2, revealed that San Francisco cops acquired a name for “code 3 for the overdose, shade change.” Paramedics pronounced Victoria useless on the scene. It has been suspected that she died from an overdose.
Victoria is survived by her father, actor Tommy Lee Jones, and his ex-wife Kimberlea Cloughley together with an older brother named Austin Jones. (Tommy, 79, and Cloughley cut up in 1991. He has since moved on with Daybreak Laurel-Jones, whom he married in 2001.)
Previous to her demise, Victoria appeared alongside her father in a number of movies, together with Males in Black II and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.
Tommy additionally spoke candidly about his daughter’s budding performing profession in an interview with The New Yorker in 2006, revealing that he even needed to hearth her from The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which was launched that yr.
“She’s a very good actress, has her SAG card, speaks impeccable Spanish,” he mentioned on the time. “When she was a child, I instructed her nurse to talk to her in Spanish, however I fired my daughter [from the movie].”
Tommy defined the firing, including, “She needed to stand up at 5 a.m. for her half. One morning, she wouldn’t get off the bed. I mentioned, ‘Honey, that is work.’ However she wouldn’t budge, so I fired her. Then, with out telling me, the manufacturing workers went over and woke her and rushed her out to the set simply in time.”
Together with Victoria’s previous roles in her father’s films, she additionally appeared in Sorry, Haters, One Tree Hill and The Homesman. She hasn’t appeared in every other onscreen initiatives since 2014.
Victoria’s most up-to-date look alongside her dad got here in 2017 when she accompanied Tommy to the Simply Getting Began premeire.
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