<\/p>\n
Actress Michelle Trachtenberg, known for roles on \u201cGossip Girl\u201d and \u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer,\u201d has died at the age of 39, per reports.<\/p>\n
According to reports, Trachtenberg was found unconscious and unresponsive in a New York City apartment near Columbus Circle Wednesday morning, and was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS workers.<\/p>\n
The New York City Police Department told the celebrity.land the \u201cHarriet The Spy\u201d star\u2019s death has not been deemed suspicious, and that the city\u2019s medical examiner will determine the exact cause of death.<\/p>\n
Over the course of the last year, some fans expressed concern online about Trachtenberg\u2019s appearance, suggesting she may be using drugs, suffering illness, or underwent plastic surgery. She clapped back, calling the speculators \u201chaters.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFun fact. This is my face. Not malnutrition no problems. Why do you have to hate? Get a calendar,\u201d she wrote on Instagram in January 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cIve received several comments recently about my appearance,\u201d she wrote in another post that month. \u201cI have never had plastic surgery I am happy and healthy. Check yourself haters.\u201d<\/p>\n
ABC News, citing police sources, reported that Trachtenberg recently underwent a liver transplant, and may have suffered complications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source starmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Actress Michelle Trachtenberg, known for roles on \u201cGossip Girl\u201d and \u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer,\u201d has died at the age of 39, per reports. According to reports, Trachtenberg was found unconscious and unresponsive in a New York City apartment near Columbus Circle Wednesday morning, and was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS workers. The New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2013872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Gossip-Girl-And-\u2018Buffy-Alum-Michelle-Trachtenberg-Dead-At-39.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}