{"id":2151519,"date":"2025-11-12T13:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2151519"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:36:09","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-pays-emotional-tribute-to-band-leader-cleto-escobedo-iii-who-died-at-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jimmy-kimmel-pays-emotional-tribute-to-band-leader-cleto-escobedo-iii-who-died-at-59\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Pays Emotional Tribute to Band Leader Cleto Escobedo III, Who Died at 59"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> broke down on Tuesday night (November 11) as he paid tribute to his long-time friend and bandleader, Cleto Escobedo III<\/a> (aka Junior), who passed away earlier that day. He was 59 years old. A cause of death hs not been announced but Page Six reports that it was due to complications stemming from a liver transplant. During the opening monologue on Tuesday\u2019s Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a>, the late-night host fought back tears as he told the audience, \u201cWe\u2019ve been on the air for almost 23 years and I\u2019ve had to do some hard monologues along the way. But this one\u2019s the hardest because late last night, early this morning,…<\/div>\n

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Jimmy Kimmel broke down on Tuesday night (November 11) as he paid tribute to his long-time friend and bandleader, Cleto Escobedo III (aka Junior), who passed away earlier that day. He was 59 years old. A cause of death hs not been announced but Page Six reports that it was due to complications stemming from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2151520,"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":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2151519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jimmy-Kimmel-Pays-Emotional-Tribute-to-Band-Leader-Cleto-Escobedo.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151519","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=2151519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2151521,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151519\/revisions\/2151521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2151520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}