Michelle Trachtenberg, ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ and ‘Gossip Girl’ star, dies at 39
New York: Michelle Trachtenberg, a former child star who went on to co-star in two buzzy TV shows at the dawn of the millennium – Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Gossip Girl – has died. She was 39.
Police responded to a 911 call shortly after 8am, local time, at luxury residential tower in midtown Manhattan where “officers observed a 39-year-old female unconscious and unresponsive,” according to an NYPD statement.
Michelle Trachtenberg at the Critics’ Choice Television Awards in 2014.Credit: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP
Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene. No foul play was suspected and the New York Medical Examiner is investigating the cause of death, police said.
Representatives for Trachtenberg did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trachtenberg rose to fame at just 10, as the plucky titular snoop in the 1996 film Harriet the Spy.
Her death was first reported by the New York Post.
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