{"id":275714,"date":"2025-11-11T05:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T05:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/275714\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T05:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T05:32:12","slug":"ace-frehleys-cause-of-death-revealed-as-blunt-trauma-injuries-to-his-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/275714\/","title":{"rendered":"Ace Frehley&#8217;s Cause of Death Revealed as Blunt Trauma Injuries to His Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An official cause of death for <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/kiss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">KISS<\/a> legend <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/ace-frehley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ace Frehley<\/a> has been posted by the New Jersey Morris County Medical Examiner, revealing that the rock icon died as the result of blunt trauma injuries to his head due to a fall.<\/p>\n<p>The report, as obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/11\/10\/ace-frehley-cause-of-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TMZ<\/a>, confirms that the guitar great died last month as a result from a fall he suffered at his home studio. It also officially rules Frehley\u2019s death as an accident.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the legendary rocker suffered a skull fracture, a subdural hematoma (brain bleed), and a stroke due to the fall. After being put on life support, he died at age 74 on October 16th.<\/p>\n<p>Frehley\u2019s passing was mourned by his fellow founding KISS members \u2014 Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, and Peter Criss \u2014 as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/10\/ace-frehley-kiss-death-tributes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">dozens of fellow musicians<\/a>, and millions of fans around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>A week after his death, Frehley was honored with a <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/10\/kiss-ace-frehley-funeral-memorial-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">private memorial service<\/a> in Yonkers attended by the surviving KISS founders, as well as a funeral service in The Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent lineup of KISS \u2014 Simmons, Stanley, Tommy Thayer, and Eric Singer \u2014 will reunite this coming weekend to perform at the <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/11\/full-kiss-reunion-las-vegas-performances\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201cKISS Kruise: Landlocked in Vegas\u201d<\/a> celebration. The band is expected to honor Frehley during the three-day event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An official cause of death for KISS legend Ace Frehley has been posted by the New Jersey Morris&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-275714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}