{"id":2509821,"date":"2026-07-20T18:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T18:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2509821"},"modified":"2026-07-20T18:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T18:16:06","slug":"latoya-malcolm-former-miss-universe-jamaica-finalist-dead-at-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/latoya-malcolm-former-miss-universe-jamaica-finalist-dead-at-35\/","title":{"rendered":"LaToya Malcolm, former Miss Universe Jamaica finalist, dead at 35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>LaToya Malcolm, a former Miss Universe Jamaica finalist, has died. She was 35.<\/p>\n<p>The organization announced her tragic death <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Da7QR7kCZcm\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=A-zOL8yO1BIVqhjMJi_7NPR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">via Instagram<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe mourn the passing of MUJ alumna LaToya Malcolm, who proudly competed in the 2024 Miss Universe Jamaica Competition,\u201d the post read. \u201cOur thoughts and prayers are with her family, friends, and loved ones. Rest peacefully, LaToya. You will never be forgotten.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Former Miss Universe Jamaica finalist LaToya Malcolm (as seen above) has died.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The organization announced the sad news via Instagram on Saturday. (Pictured: Malcolm in 2024.) <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@latoya_officially<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Miss Universe Jamaica Instagram account did not share any further details. A cause of death has yet to be revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Upon hearing the news, many of Malcolm\u2019s fans took to the comments section to express their sadness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was such a wonderful person. When I met and worked with her in 2024, she was a breath of fresh air,\u201d one wrote.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cWe mourn the passing of MUJ alumna LaToya Malcolm, who proudly competed in the 2024 Miss Universe Jamaica Competition,\u201d the caption read. (Pictured: Malcolm at Miss Jamaica Bikini International 2026.) <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@latoya_officially<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Many of her fans took to the comments section to pay their respects to Malcolm (pictured last month). <span class=\"credit\">latoya_officially\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cShe was so full of light, always joyful. I\u2019m still struggling to comprehend how this could even be possible. My condolences to her family and friends \ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f,\u201d another penned.<\/p>\n<p>Malcolm competed in the 2024 Miss Universe Jamaica pageant and later went on to hold the 2024 Miss Jamaica Bikini International title.<\/p>\n<p>She was a Jamaican-based actor and entertainer with over a decade of experience in the entertainment industry, according to the Miss Universe Jamaica Instagram account.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Malcolm also competed in the 2024 Miss Jamaica Bikini International competition and won the title. <span class=\"credit\">latoya_officially\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>In a 2024 interview, Malcolm said that she won the competitions despite her father\u2019s death earlier that year. <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@latoya_officially<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a 2024 interview with the Jamaica Observer about her Miss Jamaica Bikini International win, Malcolm told the outlet how she was able to dedicate her time and efforts to training for the competition, despite the death of her father earlier that year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy beloved father, Mr. Malcolm, this win was for you. Your one and only daughter continues to make you proud. I know you\u2019re smiling down on me from heaven \ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f\ud83d\udc99,\u201d she <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C_CaGTKO5Af\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote in the caption<\/a> of her post sharing the interview. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate the continued love and support from my friends and family \u2764\ufe0f\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffd.\u201d<\/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>LaToya Malcolm, a former Miss Universe Jamaica finalist, has died. She was 35. The organization announced her tragic death via Instagram on Saturday. \u201cWe mourn the passing of MUJ alumna LaToya Malcolm, who proudly competed in the 2024 Miss Universe Jamaica Competition,\u201d the post read. \u201cOur thoughts and prayers are with her family, friends, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2509822,"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":[398960,22062,24003,352200],"class_list":["post-2509821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-beauty-pageants","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-news","tag-jamaica"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/LaToya-Malcolm-former-Miss-Universe-Jamaica-finalist-dead-at-35.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509821","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=2509821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2509823,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509821\/revisions\/2509823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2509822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2509821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2509821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2509821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}