{"id":386344,"date":"2026-01-03T23:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/386344\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T23:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:45:11","slug":"tommy-lee-jones-family-issues-statement-after-his-daughters-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/386344\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Lee Jones&#8217; family issues statement after his daughter&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 3 (UPI) &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Tommy_Lee_Jones\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Tommy Lee Jones\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tommy Lee Jones<\/a>&#8216; family has issued a statement after his daughter, Victoria, was found dead in a San Francisco hotel on New Year&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We appreciate all of the kind words, thoughts and prayers,&#8221; the Jones <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/01\/02\/parents\/tommy-lee-jones-breaks-his-silence-after-daughter-victoria-found-dead-at-34\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">family said<\/a> in a statement Friday.\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Please respect our privacy during this difficult time. Thank you,&#8221; Victoria&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/pop-culture\/celebrity\/victoria-jones-daughter-tommy-lee-jones-found-dead-hotel-new-years-day-rcna251896\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">grieving loved ones added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of Victoria&#8217;s death at the age of 34 has not been publicly disclosed, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/01\/02\/victoria-jones-hotel-room-witness-told-first-responders-she-used-cocaine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TMZ said<\/a> it is being investigated as a possible drug overdose. <\/p>\n<p>Tommy Lee, 79, is an Oscar-winning actor known for his work in films such as The Fugitive, Men in Black, JFK, No Country For Old Men and Lincoln. <\/p>\n<p>Victoria and her older brother, Austin Jones, are the children of Tommy Lee and his ex-wife Kimberlea Coughley. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Notable-deaths-of-2025_1_1.jpg\" style=\"width: 100%;\" width=\"645\" height=\"431\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Isiah Whitlock Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Actor Isiah Whitlock Jr. arrives on the red carpet for the premiere of HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Vice&#8221; in New York City on April 2, 2013. Whitlock Jr., known for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Entertainment_News\/2025\/12\/31\/actor-isiah-whitlock-junior-dies\/6621767179539\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">roles on<\/a> &#8220;The Wire&#8221; and &#8220;Veep,&#8221; died at the age of 71 on December 30. Photo by John Angelillo\/UPI | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/News_Photos\/lp\/1f39d95230b16e92d0f5901343fc8d19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">License Photo<\/a>\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 3 (UPI) &#8212; Tommy Lee Jones&#8216; family has issued a statement after his daughter, Victoria, was found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,186619],"class_list":{"0":"post-386344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-tommy-lee-jones"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}