{"id":747817,"date":"2026-06-19T18:43:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/747817\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T18:43:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:43:21","slug":"oliver-trees-body-will-soon-be-headed-back-to-united-states-after-brazil-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/747817\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Tree&#8217;s Body Will Soon Be Headed Back to United States After Brazil Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Oliver Tree<br \/>\n                          Family Close to Bringing Body Home<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              June 19, 2026<br \/>\n                            9:40 AM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260619_0187599d37fb4306b816271a3e98f69f\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:f2aeae22-1c51-4a83-86e8-367075faa9f2\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0187599d37fb4306b816271a3e98f69f_md.jpg\" alt=\"oliver tree getty 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/oliver-tree\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oliver Tree<\/a>&#8216;s family is close to getting his body back on American soil after his shocking death in Brazil &#8230; TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n<p>A rep for the singer-songwriter&#8217;s family tells TMZ &#8230; they brought in legal counsel to help with the process of bringing Oliver home after his fatal helicopter crash.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re told the process isn&#8217;t complete yet &#8230; but they&#8217;re working on it and almost have him back.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As you know &#8230; Oliver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/06\/14\/oliver-tree-dead\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died<\/a> last weekend after his helicopter collided with another helicopter. He was one of 6 people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/06\/14\/gaspi-dead\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">killed<\/a> in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20260618_6a1ab58999d843699f055f0602eabdb2\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:f2aeae22-1c51-4a83-86e8-367075faa9f2\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a1ab58999d843699f055f0602eabdb2_md.png\" alt=\"sub oliver tree mom Christine Begin Nickell facebook\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oliver&#8217;s mother &#8212; Christine Begin Nickell &#8212; shared a loving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/06\/18\/oliver-tree-mom-christine-honors-sons-death\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tribute<\/a> to her son on Facebook a few days after he passed &#8230; saying he &#8220;made this world a better place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Several others close to Oliver &#8212; including his ex, Melanie Martinez, and his girlfriend at the time of his passing, Fiona Chernavskaya, both hopped on social media to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/06\/15\/former-girlfriend-melanie-martinez-pays-tribute-to-oliver-tree-after-helicopter-crash\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">honor<\/a> him in the aftermath of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>He was only 32.<\/p>\n<p>RIP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oliver Tree Family Close to Bringing Body Home Published June 19, 2026 9:40 AM PDT Oliver Tree&#8216;s family&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,44,82,865,866],"class_list":["post-747817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747817","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=747817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}