{"id":2438420,"date":"2026-05-30T17:37:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T17:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2438420"},"modified":"2026-05-30T17:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T17:37:32","slug":"jamie-lee-curtis-sister-kelly-lee-dead-at-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jamie-lee-curtis-sister-kelly-lee-dead-at-69\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Lee Curtis&#8217; sister Kelly Lee dead at 69"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Jamie Lee Curtis mourned the death of her sister Kelly Lee at the age of 69 in a social media post shared on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA warm aloha to my older sister, Kelly Lee Curtis,\u201d the \u201cHalloween\u201d actress, 67, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DY9sJS_MBZQ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote on Saturday via Instagram<\/a>, atop a black and white snapshot of her older sister smoking a cigarette while having her hair styled. <\/p>\n<p>Jamie wrote that her sister passed away \u201cthis morning. In her home. In nature. At peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"8964981\"><br \/>\n\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-plus\" fill=\"#fff\" viewbox=\"0 0 1033 1000\" width=\"1em\" height=\"1em\"><path d=\"M380 364V0h273v355h380v290H653v355H380V645H0V355h380v9z\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<figcaption>Jamie Lee Curtis\u2019 sister Kelly Lee died on Saturday, the \u201cHalloween\u201d actress announced. They\u2019re pictured above in 2012. <span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"8964980\"><br \/>\n\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-plus\" fill=\"#fff\" viewbox=\"0 0 1033 1000\" width=\"1em\" height=\"1em\"><path d=\"M380 364V0h273v355h380v290H653v355H380V645H0V355h380v9z\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.72061928;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"8964980\" width=\"425\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/honoree-jamie-lee-curtis-l-129217174.jpg\" alt=\"Jamie Lee Curtis and her sister Kelly Lee Curtis smiling at the 5th Annual Women of Distinction luncheon.\" class=\"wp-image-8964980\" 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They\u2019re pictured here in 2012.  <span class=\"credit\">FilmMagic<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cShe was my first friend and lifelong confidant,\u201d the \u201cFreaky Friday\u201d star continued of her sister, noting that Kelly \u201cwas jaw droppingly beautiful, and a talented actress.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cShe played a mean game of hearts, collected turtles, loved her family, nature, music, thrifting, travel, Facebook, and Pok\u00e9mon Go,\u201d Jamie added. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was proud of her Danish roots and Hungarian Jewish ancestry and was a devoted American patriot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This is a developing story\u2026.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\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>Jamie Lee Curtis mourned the death of her sister Kelly Lee at the age of 69 in a social media post shared on Saturday. \u201cA warm aloha to my older sister, Kelly Lee Curtis,\u201d the \u201cHalloween\u201d actress, 67, wrote on Saturday via Instagram, atop a black and white snapshot of her older sister smoking a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2438421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22062,70626,24003,344978,28308,21912,21913],"class_list":["post-2438420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-families","tag-celebrity-news","tag-celebrity-siblings","tag-jamie-lee-curtis","tag-movies","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jamie-Lee-Curtis-sister-Kelly-Lee-dead-at-69-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438420","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=2438420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438422,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438420\/revisions\/2438422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2438421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}