{"id":494906,"date":"2026-10-13T18:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T18:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/494906\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T18:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T18:34:07","slug":"lucian-piane-rupauls-drag-race-music-producer-dies-at-46-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/494906\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucian Piane, \u2018RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race\u2019 music producer, dies at 46 \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucian Piane, a composer and music producer known for his work on &#8220;RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race,&#8221; died after being hit by a car in Glendale on Monday morning, law enforcement sources told NBC Los Angeles. He was 46.<\/p>\n<p>Piane was crossing the street on San Fernando Road near West Harvard when he was struck by a sedan, according to the Glendale Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the driver stayed and called 911. Piane died at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>Glendale police say this was a traffic accident and that no drugs or alcohol were involved.<\/p>\n<p>Piane appeared on &#8220;RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race&#8221; as a judge and produced music for challenges over several years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucian Piane, a composer and music producer known for his work on &#8220;RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race,&#8221; died after being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7,10407,48,52,51,47,50,49,821],"class_list":["post-494906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-california","tag-glendale","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494906","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=494906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}