{"id":679230,"date":"2026-06-02T05:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/679230\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T05:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:25:12","slug":"jamie-lee-curtis-sister-kelly-lee-curtis-death-new-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/679230\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Lee Curtis\u2019 Sister Kelly Lee Curtis Death: New Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tTwo days after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jamie-lee-curtis\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jamie-lee-curtis\" data-tag=\"jamie-lee-curtis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamie Lee Curtis<\/a> announced that her sister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-news\/kelly-curtis-actress-jamie-lee-curtis-sister-obituary-1235570409\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly Lee Curtis had died<\/a> at the age of 69, new details surrounding her cause of death have been shared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe actress, who was the eldest daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, died of natural causes, the Blaine County coroner\u2019s office of Idaho confirmed to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/coroner-reveals-new-details-about-kelly-lee-curtis-death\/\">US Weekly<\/a>. She had been in hospice care for the week prior to her death on May 30, per the outlet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn a tribute to her sister, Jamie called Curtis her \u201cfirst friend and lifelong confidant.\u201d Jamie continued, \u201cShe was jaw droppingly beautiful, and a talented actress. She played a mean game of hearts, collected turtles, loved her family, nature, music, thrifting, travel, Facebook, and Pok\u00e9mon Go. She was proud of her Danish roots and Hungarian Jewish ancestry and was a devoted American patriot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBorn June 17, 1956, in Santa Monica, California, Curtis began acting as a child and would go on to graduate from Skidmore College with a degree in business in 1972. Initially worked as a stockbroker, she later studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAfter landing a small role in 1983\u2019s\u00a0Trading Places\u00a0alongside her sister and featuring in the 1987 German comedy film\u00a0Magic Sticks, Curtis played the lead in the 1991 Italian horror film\u00a0The Devil\u2019s Daughter. The actress had a recurring role as Lieutenant Carolyn Plummer on the first season of UPN series\u00a0The Sentinel\u00a0and appeared in episodes of TV shows like\u00a0The Equalizer,\u00a0Hunter,\u00a0Silk Stalkings,\u00a0and\u00a0Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn a heartfelt <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.woodriverchapel.com\/obituaries\/kelly-curtis\">obituary<\/a> to Curtis shared by Wood River Chapel, she was remembered as having \u201calways signed off any message or farewell with a Hungarian blessing, Isten Veled, God is with you.\u201d The tribute added, \u201cIsten Veled to our sister of the sun and the moon, Kelly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two days after Jamie Lee Curtis announced that her sister Kelly Lee Curtis had died at the age&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,20055],"class_list":["post-679230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-jamie-lee-curtis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679230","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=679230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}