{"id":286225,"date":"2025-11-15T13:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286225\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T13:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:21:09","slug":"cause-of-death-for-jimmy-kimmel-band-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286225\/","title":{"rendered":"Cause of Death for Jimmy Kimmel Band Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New information surrounding the passing of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jimmy_kimmel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a>&#8216;s band leader has been uncovered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Less than a week after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1424933\/jimmy-kimmel-live-s-cleto-escobedo-dead-at-59?query=cleto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">died at age 59<\/a>, Cleto Escobedo III&#8217;s immediate cause of death was revealed to be cardiogenic shock, a condition where the heart is unable to pump enough blood through the body, according to a death certificate obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/11\/14\/cleto-escobedo-cause-of-death-jimmy-kimmel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">TMZ<\/a> Nov. 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the document cited underlying causes as vasodilatory shock\u2014or blood vessel dilation\u2014and disseminated intravascular coagulation, which is blood clotting that blocks blood flow to organs, per the outlet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And blood-related conditions weren&#8217;t the only health issues named in the certificate. Alcoholic cirrhosis\u2014or advanced liver damage caused by excessive, long-term alcohol consumption\u2014was also determined to be a contributor to his passing, as well as sepsis, graft versus host disease, immunosuppressed, chronic kidney disease and pneumonia, according to TMZ.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cleto&#8217;s tragic passing was first announced on Nov. 11, when Jimmy shared a heartbreaking tribute to the musician, who served as the Jimmy Kimmel Live! band leader since the show&#8217;s debut in 2003.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New information surrounding the passing of Jimmy Kimmel&#8216;s band leader has been uncovered.\u00a0 Less than a week after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-286225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}