Pamela Bach, actor and ex-wife of 'Baywatch' icon David Hasselhoff, dies by suicide

Pamela Bach, the ex-wife of “Baywatch” prima David Hasselhoff who besides had a TV vocation of her own, was recovered dormant astatine her location successful Hollywood connected Wednesday.

The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s bureau confirmed Thursday connected its website that Bach died by suicide. A gunshot coiled to the caput is listed arsenic her origin of death. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to The Times connected Thursday that officers responded to a decease probe astatine the 3400 artifact of Troy Drive successful Hollywood astatine astir 10 p.m. Bach was pronounced dormant connected the scene, according to TMZ, which broke the quality of her death. She was 62.

“Our household is profoundly saddened by the caller passing of Pamela Hasselhoff,” David Hasselhoff said successful a connection to TMZ. “We are grateful for the outpouring of emotion and enactment during this hard clip but we kindly petition privateness arsenic we grieve and navigate done this challenging time.”

Hayley Amber Hasselhoff, 1 of the 2 daughters Bach shares with David Hasselhoff, reposted a photograph of her parents to her Instagram communicative Wednesday evening. The 32-year-old histrion and exemplary added a achromatic bosom emoji supra the picture.

Bach was calved Oct. 16, 1962, successful Tulsa, Okla., and had respective acting credits — including stints connected shows “The Young and the Restless” and “Otherworld” — earlier she joined heartthrob David Hasselhoff successful 1989. Her acting vocation spanned from the ’70s to the aboriginal aughts and besides included roles connected “The Fall Guy,” “T.J. Hooker,” “Superboy” and “Viper.”

Bach met her hubby connected the acceptable of his Emmy-nominated bid “Knight Rider.” After the bid ended its four-year tally connected NBC successful 1986, Bach and Hasselhoff tied the knot successful a backstage ceremonial successful Studio City. The then-partners successful beingness aboriginal brought their narration to the acceptable of the beachside play “Baywatch,” which ran from 1989 to 2001. The bid starred Hasselhoff arsenic dreamy lifeguard Mitch Buchannon. Bach played aggregate characters implicit 14 episodes from 1991 to 2000, according to IMDB.

In a 1989 interrogation with The Times, Bach dispelled immoderate conception that her matrimony to Hasselhoff helped her onshore “Baywatch” roles. At the time, she said her husband’s past sanction was “great baggage to person but I ne'er unfastened it up.”

“Just due to the fact that he’s the prima and shaper [doesn’t mean that’s however I got the job],” she doubled down. “I cognize wrong myself that I cannot negate the information that I cognize my lines, I’m ever connected time, I’m precise nonrecreational and ne'er propulsion immoderate value connected the set. In fact, I spell the other to marque radical consciousness much comfortable. I trust connected my ain laurels.”

In 1990, Bach and Hasselhoff welcomed their archetypal daughter, Taylor, a twelvemonth aft their marriage. Daughter Hayley Amber was calved 2 years later. In the aboriginal aughts, the actors went their abstracted ways and divorced successful 2006.

Before her death, Bach dedicated her societal media pages to sharing idiosyncratic updates and household news. In her last Instagram post, Bach said she looked guardant to what 2025 has successful store, adding that watching her granddaughter London “grow and seeing her grin airy up my satellite is genuinely the top blessing.”

“May 2025 beryllium filled with beauteous moments, laughter, and each the blessings your hearts tin hold,” she continued. “Here’s to a twelvemonth of making cherished memories, spreading joy, and embracing each precious moment!”