{"id":214579,"date":"2026-01-03T09:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/214579\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T09:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:03:07","slug":"oscar-winning-actor-releases-20-word-statement-after-victoria-kafka-jones-is-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/214579\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar-winning actor releases 20-word statement after Victoria Kafka Jones is found dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tommy Lee Jones has shared a 20-word statement after his daughter, Victoria, was found dead in a San Francisco hotel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Oscar-winning actor broke his silence on the tragic loss on Friday afternoon, California time – a day after her death on New Year’s morning.<\/p>\n

“We appreciate all of the kind words, thoughts, and prayers,” a family statement reads.<\/p>\n

“Please respect our privacy during this difficult time. Thank you.”<\/p>\n

Victoria Kafka Jones was found dead on January 1 in San Francisco’s Fairmont hotel.<\/p>\n

The city’s Fire Department officers were called to the hotel in the early hours to reports of a medical emergency.<\/p>\n

There, emergency responders found her on the ground of the 14th floor.<\/p>\n

The Mail reported that a fellow guest alerted staff after finding Jones unresponsive in a corridor.<\/p>\n

\"TommyPICTURED: Tommy Lee Jones and Victoria Jones at the Tokyo International Film Festival 2017 | GETTY<\/p>\n

A dispatch call obtained by TMZ described the call-out as a “code three for the overdose, colour change”.<\/p>\n

Ms Jones was born on September 3, 1991, and made her film debut aged just 11 through a small part in her father’s sci-fi comedy Men in Black II.<\/p>\n

She and brother Austin, 42, were born to Tommy and his second wife Kimberlea Cloughley – to whom he was married from 1981 to 1996.<\/p>\n

Following her death, fans rushed to social media to share condolences with the Jones family.<\/p>\n

“Really sad way to lose someone, especially a family member, on the first day of the year as well,” one said.<\/p>\n

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“No father should ever have to bury their daughter. I hope Tom has a lot of love around him during this tough time,” another admirer added.<\/p>\n

“Heartbreaking. 34 is far too young. Condolences to the family.”<\/p>\n

Victoria had a handful of film roles in the noughties but took a step back from acting in 2005.<\/p>\n

The pair frequently appeared together frequently on the red carpet, including in October 2018, when Tommy was on the jury of the Tokyo film festival.<\/p>\n

\"TommyTommy Lee Jones and his wife Dawn (left) and daughter Victoria (centre) pictured in 2017 | GETTY<\/p>\n

She was also seen attending the premiere of Just Getting Started in 2017 alongside her dad – as well as his current wife Dawn Laurel-Jones.<\/p>\n

Tommy Lee Jones, 79, won an Oscar and Golden Globe for his role in The Fugitive.<\/p>\n

He has also starred in films including JFK, Lincoln, In the Valley of Elah and No Country for Old Men.<\/p>\n

Tommy and his wife Dawn Laurel-Jones live on a 150-year-old Texas cattle ranch, and also spend time on a huge 74-acre polo estate in Buenos Aires, Argentina<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy Lee Jones has shared a 20-word statement after his daughter, Victoria, was found dead in a San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,3623,156,593,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-214579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}