Michelle Trachtenberg’s household has objected to an post-mortem, leaving the actor’s reason for demise undetermined.
The household cited non secular causes, the New York Metropolis Workplace of the Chief Medical Examiner informed ABC Information.
Trachtenberg’s mom discovered the 39-year-old actor useless at her house close to Columbus Circle on Wednesday morning. She has reportedly not too long ago gone by a liver transplant and should have skilled issues from it.
The medical expert didn’t suspect criminality or any foul play, so an investigation into her demise might be restricted to an exterior examination, in keeping with ABC Information.
Trachtenberg started her appearing profession as a baby, touchdown roles within the Nickelodeon sequence “The Adventures of Pete & Pete” after which the title function within the 1996 movie “Harriet the Spy,” starring alongside Rosie O’Donnell.
She went on to star in “Gossip Girl” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Her former co-stars mourned her demise Wednesday, together with her “Gossip Girl” co-star Blake Vigorous, who wrote on social media that Trachtenberg was “electricity.”
“You knew when she entered a room because the vibration changed. Everything she did, she did 200%,” Vigorous wrote.
She continued: “She laughed the fullest at someone’s joke, she faced authority head on when she felt something was wrong, she cared deeply about her work, she was proud to be a part of this community and industry, as painful as it could be sometimes.”
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Chace Crawford, one other certainly one of Trachtenberg’s co-stars on “Gossip Girl,” wrote on Instagram that Trachtenberg was “one of a kind.”
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“I remember her coming on set for the first time and just absolutely owning it,” he wrote. “She was a force of nature and just so so unapologetically funny and magnetic.. remembering those years with a big smile,” he wrote. “Just a terrible loss. Love you ❤️.”
