{"id":318571,"date":"2026-03-02T22:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/318571\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T22:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:58:07","slug":"eric-danes-official-cause-of-death-confirmed-eric-dane-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entertainment-photos-and-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/318571\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Dane\u2019s Official Cause of Death Confirmed | Eric Dane | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/eric-dane\/\" title=\"Eric Dane\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Dane<\/a>\u2018s official cause of death has been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>If you didn\u2019t see the sad news, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/02\/19\/eric-dane-dead-greys-anatomy-actor-dies-at-53-after-battle-with-als\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grey\u2019s Anatomy and Euphoria actor died on February 19<\/a>, nearly one year after he announced that he had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). He was 53-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>Now on Monday (March 2), Eric\u2018s cause of death was confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading to find out more\u2026Eric died of respiratory failure, according to his death certificate obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/eric-dane-official-cause-of-death-confirmed-11910393\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/people.com\/eric-dane-official-cause-of-death-confirmed-11910393&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a>. ALS is also listed as an underlying cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>The actor is survived by his wife <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/rebecca-gayheart\/\" title=\"Rebecca Gayheart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Gayheart<\/a> and their two daughters \u2013 Billie, 15, and Georgia, 14.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca just recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/02\/21\/rebecca-gayheart-breaks-her-silence-after-husband-eric-danes-death\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">broke her silence<\/a> after Eric\u2018s death.<\/p>\n<p>After Eric\u2018s tragic passing, many Grey\u2019s Anatomy stars, past and present, paid tribute to him, including creator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/shonda-rhimes\/\" title=\"Shonda Rhimes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shonda Rhimes<\/a> and executive producer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/krista-vernoff\/\" title=\"Krista Vernoff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Krista Vernoff<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/02\/21\/every-greys-anatomy-star-that-has-paid-tribute-to-eric-dane-after-his-death\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See that they shared here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Dane\u2018s official cause of death has been confirmed. If you didn\u2019t see the sad news, the Grey\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-318571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}