Michelle Trachtenberg's cause of death undetermined, family objects to autopsy

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Michelle Trachtenberg‘s authoritative origin and mode of decease volition stay undetermined, according to the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

The household of the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” star objected to having an autopsy performed connected the actor— their close nether the instrumentality — for spiritual reasons.

“[A]bsent immoderate suspicion of criminality astir the circumstances of the death, the aesculapian examiner volition grant the objection,” a spokesperson for the bureau said Friday successful a connection to The Times.

When that occurs, the probe mightiness beryllium constricted to an outer examination.

Trachtenberg, the kid of immigrants who grew up successful Brooklyn speaking English and Russian, is said to person been of Jewish religion in which autopsies are mostly not performed due to the fact that bodies are believed to beryllium ineffable and should not beryllium tampered with aft death.

The “Gossip Girl” prima was found unresponsive by her parent Wednesday successful her New York City flat and was pronounced dormant astatine the scene. She was 39. Trachtenberg precocious underwent a liver transplant and mightiness person been experiencing complications, ABC News reported.

“The household requests privateness for their loss,” Trachtenberg’s representative, Gary Mantoosh, said successful a connection to the Associated Press.

TMZ reported that Trachtenberg’s parent past saw her girl live precocious Tuesday and that Trachtenberg didn’t look to beryllium having wellness issues.

The histrion had sparked interest among fans connected societal media implicit the past fewer years aft her quality successful photos seemed altered. Trachtenberg deed backmost successful January 2024 saying that she was “happy and healthy” and had ne'er had integrative surgery, but was simply aging.

“Fun fact. This is my face,” she captioned different post that month. “Not malnutrition nary problems. Why bash you person to hate? Get a calendar.”

Actors who worked with the “Harriet the Spy” and “The Adventures of Pete & Pete” star paid tribute to her connected societal media, expressing daze implicit her untimely death. “Gossip Girl” alum Blake Lively described her erstwhile on-screen nemesis arsenic “electricity.”

“You knew erstwhile she entered a country due to the fact that the vibration changed. Everything she did, she did 200%,” the embattled “This Ends With Us” star wrote connected Instagram stories. “She laughed the fullest astatine someone’s joke, she faced authorization caput connected erstwhile she felt thing was wrong, she cared profoundly astir her work, she was arrogant to beryllium a portion of this assemblage and manufacture arsenic achy arsenic it could beryllium sometimes, she was fiercely loyal to her friends and brave for those she loved, she was large and bold and distinctly herself.”

“Buffy” prima Sarah Michelle Gellar shared a bid of photos of Trachtenberg with a poignant “Buffy” punctuation tailored to her precocious co-star and on-screen younger sister.

“Michelle, perceive to me. Listen. I emotion you. I volition ever emotion you. The hardest happening successful this world, is to unrecorded successful it. I volition beryllium brave. I volition live… for you,” Gellar wrote, besides sharing a photograph of them with her precocious person and “Beverly Hills, 90210” prima Shannen Doherty.

Alyson Hannigan, David Boreanaz and James Marsters besides penned affectional tributes to their longtime workfellow who starred successful respective seasons of the prime-time cult classic. Actor Nicholas Brendon, who besides was a subordinate of “Buffy’s” Scooby Gang, besides sparked interest erstwhile helium responded to a commenter during a unrecorded stream, saying, “she was a kid...it’s conscionable tragic. I didn’t cognize thing was going on.”

Photographer and person Amanda de Cadenet hinted astatine a wellness issue successful her tribute to Trachtenberg.

“I volition ever retrieve you arsenic the young vivacious pistillate I met erstwhile I took this photograph of you …,” De Cadenet wrote successful the caption of a post that has been amended, according to People. “Seeing your look from the infirmary furniture erstwhile we FaceTimed recently, adjacent though you did not look similar you, your sweetness and wit were inactive alive.”

“I volition not stock the details of our conversations implicit the past 6 months. But you knew that decease was a precocious possibility,” she wrote successful the archetypal post.

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