{"id":2509766,"date":"2026-07-20T17:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2509766"},"modified":"2026-07-20T17:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:45:10","slug":"ex-miss-universe-jamaica-contestant-latoya-malcolm-dead-at-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ex-miss-universe-jamaica-contestant-latoya-malcolm-dead-at-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Miss Universe Jamaica contestant LaToya Malcolm dead at 35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F07%2Fcomp-671769679_18578648131002901_314510188684152598_n.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A former Miss Universe Jamaica finalist and actress has died over the weekend, the organization revealed.<\/p>\n<p>LaToya Malcolm, 35, an actress and dance instructor who competed in the 2024 Miss Universe Jamaica beauty pageant, was confirmed dead on Saturday, but her cause of death remains unknown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply saddened by the passing of Miss Universe Jamaica alumna LaToya Malcolm, who proudly competed in the 2024 Miss Universe Jamaica Competition,\u201d the Miss Universe Jamaica organization wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur heartfelt condolences are with her family, friends, and loved ones. Rest peacefully, LaToya. You will never be forgotten.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/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 celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Miss Universe Jamaica finalist and actress has died over the weekend, the organization revealed. LaToya Malcolm, 35, an actress and dance instructor who competed in the 2024 Miss Universe Jamaica beauty pageant, was confirmed dead on Saturday, but her cause of death remains unknown. \u201cWe are deeply saddened by the passing of Miss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2509767,"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":[25174],"tags":[22062,21741,352200,350841],"class_list":["post-2509766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-entertainment","tag-jamaica","tag-miss-universe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Ex-Miss-Universe-Jamaica-contestant-LaToya-Malcolm-dead-at-35.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509766","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=2509766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2509768,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509766\/revisions\/2509768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2509767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2509766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2509766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2509766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}