{"id":2219652,"date":"2026-01-02T09:26:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2219652"},"modified":"2026-01-02T09:26:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:26:52","slug":"hollywood-mourns-loss-of-beloved-makeup-artist-jasen-kaplan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/hollywood-mourns-loss-of-beloved-makeup-artist-jasen-kaplan\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood mourns loss of beloved makeup artist Jasen Kaplan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Hollywood began the new year by learning tragic news. Beloved makeup artist Jasen Kaplan has died, Page Six is told.<\/p>\n<p>Kaplan began his rise to the top of his profession when he worked with Brittny and Lisa Gastineau on their 2005 show \u201cGastineau Girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to become one of the most trusted and adored artists in the business, and for decades he was the go-to for stars including Kelly Osbourne, Eva Longoria, Lynda Carter and Cyndi Lauper.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Jasen Kaplan, a beloved Hollywood makeup artist has passed away, Page Six is told. <span class=\"credit\">Jasen Kaplan\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Kaplan began his career working with Brittney and Lisa Gastineau. <span class=\"credit\">Jasen Kaplan\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>He worked on \u201cGastineau Girls.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Jasen Kaplan\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>We\u2019re told he was especially close with Bethenny Frankel, Tinsley Mortimer, Lydia Hearst and Obsourne.<\/p>\n<p>Sources say he passed away in a hospital in New York City in the hours before the ball dropped in Times Square.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a great artist, and a sweet guy,\u201d said a longtime friend, \u201cWhen people started working with him, they often stayed with him for years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Insiders say his many adoring clients were learning news on Thursday morning, and that the loss will be felt across the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Tinsley Mortimer was also a client and a close friend. <span class=\"credit\">Jasen Kaplan\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Kelly Osbourne was close with the the talent pro. <span class=\"credit\">\/ SplashNews.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe really was important to a lot of people,\u201d said one, \u201csome of his clients had been with him more than 20 years. They\u2019re going to take it very hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One noted that it will be a blow to Osbourne who so recently suffered the loss of her father.<\/p>\n<p>He was a beloved uncle and called his dog Coco the \u201clove of his life.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>He also appeared on the reality show \u201cFinding Prince Charming.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Jasen Kaplan\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The NYPD told us Thursday that they\u2019re investigating the death of a 46-year-old man at Kaplan\u2019s Hell\u2019s Kitchen apartment building and that the chief medical examiner will determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>Kaplan was also a contestant on \u201cFinding Prince Charming,\u201d a gay, \u201cBachelor\u201d-style dating show produced by Lance Bass for Logo in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood began the new year by learning tragic news. Beloved makeup artist Jasen Kaplan has died, Page Six is told. Kaplan began his rise to the top of his profession when he worked with Brittny and Lisa Gastineau on their 2005 show \u201cGastineau Girls.\u201d He went on to become one of the most trusted and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2219653,"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":[23908,30520,389178,24122,24557,429288],"class_list":["post-2219652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-bethenny-frankel","tag-kelly-osbourne","tag-makeup","tag-reality-tv","tag-society","tag-tinsley-mortimer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Hollywood-mourns-loss-of-beloved-makeup-artist-Jasen-Kaplan.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219652","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=2219652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2219654,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219652\/revisions\/2219654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2219653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}