{"id":277109,"date":"2025-04-08T15:29:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/gossip-girl-fame-michelle-trachtenberg-dies-at-39\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T15:29:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:29:03","slug":"gossip-girl-fame-michelle-trachtenberg-dies-at-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/gossip-girl-fame-michelle-trachtenberg-dies-at-39\/","title":{"rendered":"Gossip Girl fame Michelle Trachtenberg dies at 39"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/data.indianexpress.com\/election2019\/track_1x1.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Gossip Girl fame Michelle Trachtenberg dies at 39\" title=\"Gossip Girl fame Michelle Trachtenberg dies at 39\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"pcl-full-content\">\n<p>Michelle Trachtenberg, the actress who rose to fame as a child star in Harriet the Spy before making her mark on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Gossip Girl, has passed away at the age of 39.<\/p>\n<p>Police in Manhattan responded to an emergency call on Wednesday morning and found Michelle Trachtenberg \u201cunconscious and unresponsive.\u201d She was \u201cpronounced deceased at the scene,\u201d authorities confirmed, <i>AP <\/i>reported.<\/p>\n<p><ev-engagement group-name=\"contentLogin\"\/><ev-engagement group-name=\"myNotification\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ev-meter-content ie-premium-content-block\">\n<p>\u201cCriminality is not suspected. The medical examiner will determine the cause of death. The investigation remains ongoing,\u201d the NYPD said in a statement.\u00a0Her death was first reported by the New York Post.<\/p>\n<div class=\"osv-ad-class\" style=\"background-color: #f2f2f2;height: 375px;margin-bottom: 15px;\">\n<p>Story continues below this ad<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Trachtenberg began her acting career at just three years old on Nickelodeon\u2019s The Adventures of Pete &amp; Pete.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 2000s, she earned several award nominations\u2014including a Daytime Emmy\u2014for her role as Dawn Summers on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She later starred in films such as EuroTrip, Ice Princess, Killing Kennedy, and Sister Cities.<\/p>\n<p>Trachtenberg made her Gossip Girl debut in 2008 and reprised her role in two episodes of HBO Max\u2019s reboot in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Her final major acting role was in 2021 as the host of the true-crime docuseries Meet, Marry, Murder on Tubi.<\/p>\n<div class=\"adboxtop adsizes\">\n<p>Story continues below this ad<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In 2021, Trachtenberg accused Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon of inappropriate behavior on set, supporting claims made by her co-star Charisma Carpenter, who said she had been traumatised by Whedon\u2019s treatment.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(With inputs from Associated Press)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '444470064056909');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/entertainment\/hollywood\/gossip-girl-michelle-trachtenberg-dies-39-9858302\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Trachtenberg, the actress who rose to fame as a child star in Harriet the Spy before making her mark on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Gossip Girl, has passed away at the age of 39. Police in Manhattan responded to an emergency call on Wednesday morning and found Michelle Trachtenberg \u201cunconscious and unresponsive.\u201d She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/data.indianexpress.com\/election2019\/track_1x1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[619],"tags":[16,7436,1522,55526,19285,214123,214124,214122,192054,214129,214125,214126,214130,214128,214049,214131,214127,214133,214121,214132,214134,191993],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277111,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277109\/revisions\/277111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}