{"id":4258,"date":"2026-06-01T19:17:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/new-details-about-jamie-lee-curtis-sister-kellys-death-emerge\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T19:17:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:17:19","slug":"new-details-about-jamie-lee-curtis-sister-kellys-death-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/new-details-about-jamie-lee-curtis-sister-kellys-death-emerge\/","title":{"rendered":"New details about Jamie Lee Curtis&#8217; sister Kelly&#8217;s death emerge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F06%2F129418289.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Jamie shared on Instagram that her older sister <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/30\/celebrity-news\/jamie-lee-curtis-sister-kelly-lee-dead-at-69\/\">died Saturday morning<\/a>, writing that Kelly passed away at her home in \u201cat peace.\u201d She was 69 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly died at 2:30 a.m. Saturday and had been in hospice care for the last week prior to her death, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/coroner-reveals-new-details-about-kelly-lee-curtis-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Us Weekly reported<\/a>. According to the outlet, she is expected to be cremated.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly was also an actress, starring in 1987\u2019s \u201cMagic Sticks\u201d and 1991\u2019s \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Daughter.\u201d At the time of her death, she was married to filmmaker John Marsh.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jamie Lee Curtis\u2019 sister, Kelly Lee Curtis, died of natural causes, Page Six can confirm. The sisters are pictured here in 2012. <span class=\"credit\">Brian To<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Kelly died in her home \u201cat peace,\u201d Jamie shared Saturday on Instagram. The sisters are seen here in July 1994. <span class=\"credit\">Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Jamie and Kelly\u2019s parents are actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, who were married for 11 years before they divorced in 1962. Tony also had four children through his later marriages: Alexandra, Allegra, Benjamin, and Nicholas \u2014 the latter who died in 1994 from a heroin overdose at 23 years old.<\/p>\n<p>In Jamie\u2019s tribute to Kelly, the \u201cHalloween\u201d actress, 67, called her older sister her \u201cfirst friend and lifelong confidant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jamie wrote of her only full sibling: \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<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jamie and Kelly\u2019s parents are iconic actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis. <span class=\"credit\">Bettmann Archive<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Kelly was Jamie\u2019s only full sibling. (They are pictured above in the \u201980s with mom Janet Leigh.) <span class=\"credit\">MediaPunch via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cShe will be remembered for her loving generosity, fierce opinions, endless curiosity, unique style, and her powdered, almond, crescent cookies at Christmas, hence her name, Auntie Cookie,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Chris Connelly commented on the post with his own memories of Kelly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe joined our high school class senior year, and it was as if she\u2019d stepped off a meteorite,\u201d he recalled. \u201cWalked in beauty, like the night. Quoted lyrics from Tumbleweed Connection on her senior page in our yearbook. Into our NYC world, she was the coolest breeze of fresh air \u2026 and always to be remembered.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jamie called Kelly her \u201cfirst friend and lifelong confidant.\u201d They\u2019re pictured here in 2003. <span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The Oscar-winning actress said Kelly  \u2014 seen here in November 2012 \u2014 would be remembered for \u201cher loving generosity, fierce opinions, endless curiosity, and unique style.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jamie later <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/31\/celebrity-news\/jamie-lee-curtis-honors-sister-kelly-curtis-with-never-before-seen-photos-after-her-death\/\">shared never-before-seen photos of her and Kelly<\/a> on Instagram, which were taken when Kelly slept over the night before Jamie married husband Christopher Guest in December 1984.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy sister and I were close as children but also had that sibling competition for divorced parent\u2019s attention and love and we were wildly different and lived apart for many years, but she came back to be with me at my wedding and never really left again,\u201d she shared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI miss her today but am buoyed by the knowledge that she is at peace,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/01\/celebrity-news\/new-details-about-jamie-lee-curtis-sister-kellys-death-emerge\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie shared on Instagram that her older sister died Saturday morning, writing that Kelly passed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/129418289.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}