{"id":117732,"date":"2026-01-02T19:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/117732\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T19:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:31:12","slug":"details-emerge-in-san-francisco-hotel-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/117732\/","title":{"rendered":"Details emerge in San Francisco hotel death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Jones, the only daughter of Academy Award-winning actor Tommy Lee Jones, was reportedly found collapsed and unresponsive in a hallway at San Francisco\u2019s famed Fairmont Hotel early in the morning on New Year\u2019s Day before she was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-15428093\/Death-Tommy-Lee-Jones-daughter-Victoria-Fairmont.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Mail reported<\/a> that a guest came upon Victoria Jones lying on the floor in a 14th floor hallway, thought she might be drunk and alerted hotel staff. TMZ, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/01\/01\/tommy-lee-jones-daughter-victoria-dead\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which first reported on Jones\u2019 death<\/a>, said that San Francisco Fire Department paramedics responded to a report of a medical emergency at the hotel at 2:52 a.m. The emergency was said to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/01\/02\/tommy-lee-jones-daughter-victoria-suffered-suspected-od-audio\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a possible overdose,<\/a> according to audio of the 911 call, TMZ also reported.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the San Francisco Police Department also told TMZ that its officers responded to the Nob Hill hotel at 3:14 a.m., and that the case had been turned over to the Medical Examiner for investigation. A cause of death is unknown, though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/woman-found-dead-sf-hotel\/4006464\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC Bay Area reported<\/a> that foul play is not suspected.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Mail said it\u2019s not clear if Victoria Jones was staying at the hotel or how she came to be on the 14th floor.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Jones was the younger of two children that Tommy Lee Jones had with his second wife, Kimberlea Cloughley, to whom he was married from 1981 to 1996, the Daily Mail and <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/all-about-tommy-lee-jones-children-8624957\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">People reported.<\/a> The 79-year-old actor, best known for films such as \u201cThe Fugitive,\u201d \u201cJFK,\u201d \u201cNo Country for Old Men\u201d and the \u201cMen in Black\u201d franchise, reportedly raised his two children, Victoria and her brother, Austin, 43, away from the Hollywood spotlight, on a cattle ranch he owns in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>As a child and teenager, Victoria Jones seemed interested in following in her father\u2019s footsteps in acting. Her first professional acting role was in her father\u2019s 2002 film \u201cMen in Black II.\u201d She also appeared in an episode of the TV show \u201cOne Tree Hill\u201d and had a small role in the 2005 Western film, \u201cThe Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,\u201d which marked her father\u2019s directorial debut, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2398231\/?ref_=nm_knf_t_3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to IMDB.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tommy Lee Jones spoke proudly of his daughter\u2019s achievements <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2006\/01\/09\/lunch-with-tommy-lee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in a 2006 interview with the New Yorker,<\/a> saying: \u201cShe\u2019s a good actress, has her SAG card, speaks impeccable Spanish \u2026 . When she was a baby, I told Leticia, her nurse, to speak to her in Spanish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But he also joked about having to come down hard on her during the filming of \u201cThe Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,\u201d when she was around 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe had to get up at 5 a.m. for her part,\u201d Tommy Lee Jones told the New Yorker. \u201cOne morning, she wouldn\u2019t get out of bed. I said, \u2018Honey, this is work.\u2019 But she wouldn\u2019t budge. So I fired her. Then, without telling me, the production staff went over and woke her and rushed her out to the set just in time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tommy Lee Jones also told the New Yorker that his daughter inherited his love of polo, which she learned to play on a practice field that he built on property he owns in Florida. \u201cMy daughter has been playing polo since she was six, and now she\u2019s entirely fearless,\u201d he said at the time, adding that his current wife, Dawn Laurel-Jones, also \u201cis one of the best women polo players in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Jones\u2019 last screen credit was for her father\u2019s 2014 film, \u201cThe Homesman.\u201d It\u2019s not known if Victoria Jones pursued another profession.<\/p>\n<p>Online court records show that Victoria Jones had two active misdemeanor cases in Napa County, one involving allegations of obstructing a peace officer, being under the influence of a controlled substance, and possession of a narcotic controlled substance. The other involved misdemeanor domestic battery. The New York Post also reported that she was arrested in Santa Cruz County in May though that couldn\u2019t be immediately verified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victoria Jones, the only daughter of Academy Award-winning actor Tommy Lee Jones, was reportedly found collapsed and unresponsive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[184,861,7,8,2523,31831,12577,138,967,181,1399,100,395,36365,101,396,103,102,104,106,105,420,14258],"class_list":["post-117732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-bay-area","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-california","tag-california-news","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-alert","tag-coffee-break","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-entertainment","tag-latest-headlines","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-peninsula","tag-peninsula-crime","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-county","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-things-to-do","tag-tv-streaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}