{"id":2503943,"date":"2026-07-16T00:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T00:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2503943"},"modified":"2026-07-16T00:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T00:24:22","slug":"kardashian-bodyguard-mason-haynes-dead-at-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kardashian-bodyguard-mason-haynes-dead-at-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Kardashian bodyguard Mason Haynes dead at 52"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Longtime celebrity bodyguard Mason Haynes, known for his work with the Kardashians, died at the age of 52. <\/p>\n<p>According to a GoFund Me <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/honouring-mason-haynes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launched by his family<\/a>, Haynes died on July 4\u00a0\u201cin a tragic road traffic accident\u201d just two days before he would have celebrated his 53rd birthday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe leaves behind his devoted wife Fay, his daughter Brooke, his son Noah, a loving family, and an extraordinary circle of friends spread across the world,\u201d the tribute continued,  noting that \u201chundreds of messages\u201d had \u201cpoured in\u201d from \u201cpeople whose lives Mason changed.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The family described Haynes as someone \u201cwho made people feel welcome from the moment they met him,\u201d who would \u201ccross countries to help a friend,\u201d and who was a \u201cprotector. A mentor. A prankster. A giant in every sense of the word, with an even bigger heart.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Longtime celebrity bodyguard, seen above with Kris Jenner in 2015, has died in a car accident, per a GoFundMe page.  <span class=\"credit\">GC Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Haynes, seen here with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West in 2016, died in a traffic accident.  <span class=\"credit\">FameFlynet.uk.com \/ SplashNews.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The tribute noted that a friend \u201cwrote that \u2018the world has been robbed of that rare thing\u2026 a genuinely good man,&#8217;\u201d with another stating that his \u201cgreatest gift was his humanity.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The account explained that funds raised would be used to \u201censure Mason gets the send-off he truly deserves \u2013 a celebration of a life that touched so many people,\u201d and to \u201chelp ease some of the immediate financial pressures that inevitably follows such a sudden and devastating loss\u201d for his immediate family members. <\/p>\n<p>Trojan Security UK, the bodyguard\u2019s employer, took to Instagram with a tribute to Haynes as well, sharing a photo of him towering over Kris Jenner while providing protection on an outing. \u201cRIP Big Mason,\u201d they wrote atop the upload. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to pay homage to an absolute legend in the Close Protection game. Big Mason,\u201d the company captioned the photo on July 6. \u201cGone too soon. Rest easy and fly high Brother \ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The bodyguard, seen above with Jenner in 2015, was days away from celebrating his 53rd birthday.  <span class=\"credit\">Abaca \/ FameFlynet \/ SplashNews.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Haynes, pictured above with Jenner and Joyce Bonelli in Paris in 2015, was remembered as a \u201cprotector\u201d and \u201cmentor.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">GC Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Haynes has most notably worked with Kim Kardashian, Kris Jenner and Kanye West \u2014 as well as Formula 1\u2019s Lewis Hamilton, whom Kim <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/07\/14\/celebrity-news\/kim-kardashians-boyfriend-lewis-hamilton-hangs-with-her-kids-in-sweet-new-selfies\/\">is currently dating<\/a> \u2014 and was on the family\u2019s security team when she was infamously <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/03\/26\/celebrity-news\/kim-kardashian-to-testify-in-trial-for-10m-paris-robbery\/\">robbed at gunpoint<\/a> in a Paris hotel in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2018 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.london-now.co.uk\/young-reporter\/9943\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview with London Now<\/a>, the bodyguard said he \u201ccan\u2019t go into much detail about that,\u201d and called the incident \u201ca set of unfortunate circumstances which led to something bad happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also claimed to have worked with A-listers including Charlie Puth, Nicki Minaj and Kevin Hart, among others.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Haynes, shown above with Kendall Jenner in 2015, made a point of having professional boundaries with high-profile clients.  <span class=\"credit\">Abaca \/ FameFlynet \/ SplashNews.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Haynes also worked with Kevin Hart and Nicki Minaj, among others. He\u2019s pictured above in a snapshot from the GoFundMe campaign.  <span class=\"credit\">GoFundMe<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Though he worked closely with high-profile clients, Haynes was a consummate professional. In a 2020 interview, he explained that he drew the line at getting too friendly on the job.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany bodyguards make the mistake of thinking that they\u2019re friends with their clients,\u201d he said during an <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jOQmpZVplYY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview with Silver Swan Recruitment\u2019s Philippa Smith<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd as soon as you blur the line between professionalism and friendship, I think you\u2019re in serious trouble.\u201d <\/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>Longtime celebrity bodyguard Mason Haynes, known for his work with the Kardashians, died at the age of 52. According to a GoFund Me launched by his family, Haynes died on July 4\u00a0\u201cin a tragic road traffic accident\u201d just two days before he would have celebrated his 53rd birthday. \u201cHe leaves behind his devoted wife Fay, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2503944,"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":[493465,22062,24003,349865,28786],"class_list":["post-2503943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-bodyguards","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-news","tag-gofundme","tag-kardashians"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Kardashian-bodyguard-Mason-Haynes-dead-at-52.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503943","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=2503943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2503945,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503943\/revisions\/2503945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2503944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2503943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2503943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}