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More details about Victoria Jones' untimely death are emerging.
Over a month after Tommy Lee Jones' daughter died at the age of 34, her death was determined to be an "accident," caused by the "toxic effects of cocaine," the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in San Francisco, Calif., told People on February 17.
Victoria was discovered dead at a hotel in San Francisco, California, on January 1. On January 2, city fire officials confirmed to E! News that they responded to a medical emergency at 2:52 a.m. local time on New Year's Day. When paramedics arrived, they performed an assessment and pronounced the person dead on the scene. The San Francisco Fire Department then handed over the case to the medical examiner and Sthe SanFrancisco Police Department.
Following the actress's tragic death, Tommy Lee, 79, issued a statement on behalf of their family, saying, "We appreciate all of your kind words, thoughts, and prayers. Please respect our privacy at this difficult time."
Victoria, whom Tommy Lee shared with ex Kimberlea Cloughley and their son Austin Jones, 43, made her film debut in Men in Black II, alongside her father and Will Smith, when she was 11 years old in 2002.
She later appeared in Tommy Lee's 2005 neo-Western The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and the 2014 film The Homesman. She also had a brief appearance on One Tree Hill before officially retiring from acting in 2014.
Despite her brief stint in the industry, Tommy Lee expressed his pride in his daughter's career.
"She's a good actress, has her SAG card, and speaks impeccable Spanish," the star of The Fugitive told The New Yorker in 2006. “When she was a baby, I told Leticia, her nurse, to speak to her in Spanish.”
In fact, Victoria was such an important part of Tommy Lee's life that she inspired him to write The Homesman, a Western about sexism in the 1800s, which he also directed and starred in.
"My grandmother, mother, wife, and daughter are all women," Tommy Lee, who married Dawn Laurel-Jones in 2001, told Interview magazine in 2014. "Many of my dear friends, including yourself, are women. I am just interested in how they feel and what’s wrong. And if you want to know what’s wrong today, looking at what was wrong yesterday is a pretty good place to start."
