{"id":2220546,"date":"2026-01-03T02:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2220546"},"modified":"2026-01-03T02:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:31:09","slug":"beloved-makeup-artist-jasen-kaplans-cause-of-death-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/beloved-makeup-artist-jasen-kaplans-cause-of-death-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved makeup artist Jasen Kaplan&#8217;s cause of death revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Beloved makeup artist <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/01\/01\/society\/hollywood-mourns-loss-of-beloved-makeup-artist-jasen-kaplan\/\">Jasen Kaplan\u2019s cause of death<\/a> has reportedly been ruled as a suicide. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities listed Kaplan\u2019s \u201cblunt impact injuries of torso and extremities\u201d as the cause of his death, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/01\/02\/jasen-kaplan-death-ruled-suicide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">per TMZ. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sources also told the outlet that the injuries were \u201cconsistent with a fall from height.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Celebrity makeup artist Jasen Kaplan\u2019s cause of death has reportedly been ruled as a suicide.  <span class=\"credit\">Jasen Kaplan\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><figcaption>Authorities listed Kaplen\u2019s \u201cblunt impact injuries of torso and extremities\u201d as his cause of death.   <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>The New York City medical examiner\u2019s office did not immediately respond to Page Six\u2019s request for comment. <\/p>\n<p>Sources previously told Page Six Kaplan died in a New York City hospital just hours before the ball dropped in Times Square on Dec. 31. He was 46 years old.  <\/p>\n<p>Quickly, Hollywood began to mourn the devastating loss of the makeup artist who was known to work closely Bethenny Frankel, Tinsley Mortimer, Lydia Hearst and Kelly Osbourne.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Kaplan died in a New York City hospital on Dec. 31 at 46 years old.  <span class=\"credit\">Jasen Kaplan\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The beloved makeup artist received an outpour of tributes from stars as they mourned his loss.  <span class=\"credit\">\/ SplashNews.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe was a great artist, and a sweet guy,\u201d a longtime friend told us of Kaplan, \u201cWhen people started working with him, they often stayed with him for years.\u201d<\/p>\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>Kaplan earned his claim to fame as an artist when he worked with Brittny and Lisa Gastineau on their 2005 show \u201cGastineau Girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Kaplan began his career as an artist working with Brittny and Lisa Gastineau on their 2005 show \u201cGastineau Girls.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Jasen Kaplan\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>He went on to work with stars like Kelly Osbourne, Eva Longoria, and Cyndi Lauper.  <span class=\"credit\">Jasen Kaplan\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Along with Osbourne and Frankel, Kaplan was known as a go-to makeup artist for stars including Eva Longoria, Lynda Carter and Cyndi Lauper.<\/p>\n<p>Kaplan also starred as 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>Kaplan marks the second loss in connection with the \u201cFinding Prince Charming\u201d franchise. Another contestant, Chad Spodick, died last month, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/finding-prince-charming-alum-chad-spodick-cause-of-death-confirmed-11864985\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">per People<\/a>.<\/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>Beloved makeup artist Jasen Kaplan\u2019s cause of death has reportedly been ruled as a suicide. Authorities listed Kaplan\u2019s \u201cblunt impact injuries of torso and extremities\u201d as the cause of his death, per TMZ. Sources also told the outlet that the injuries were \u201cconsistent with a fall from height.\u201d Celebrity makeup artist Jasen Kaplan\u2019s cause of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2220547,"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":[22062,24003,39212],"class_list":["post-2220546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-news","tag-suicide"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Beloved-makeup-artist-Jasen-Kaplans-cause-of-death-revealed.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220546","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=2220546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2220548,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220546\/revisions\/2220548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2220547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2220546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2220546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2220546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}