Chilling details emerge in mysterious death of Tommy Lee Jones’s former child star daughter as guests at swanky hotel ‘thought she was drunk’ before dark truth was revealed
The daughter of Hollywood icon Tommy Lee Jones was found dead by a guest at an upscale San Francisco hotel early on New Year’s Day.
Victoria Jones, 34, was lying on the ground of the 14th floor of the Fairmont hotel in San Francisco when a guest thought she might be drunk and alerted hotel staff, a source told the Daily Mail.
The staffers then realized Victoria was unresponsive and immediately started CPR and called for an ambulance.
The San Francisco Fire Department said they then responded to a call for medical aid at 2.52am, at which point first responders tried to revive Victoria before she was pronounced dead at the scene.
The source said there were no signs of foul play, such as trauma to the body, and police did not find any drug paraphernalia on the scene. There were also no signs that Victoria may have taken her own life.
It remains unclear whether Victoria was a guest at the hotel or how she came to be on the 14th floor, according to the Daily Mail’s insider.
A spokesperson for the San Francisco Police Department is now asking anyone with information about Victoria’s untimely death to contact the department.
Victoria – the daughter of Jones and his second wife Kimberlea Cloughley, whom he was married to from 1981 to 1996 – performed in her first acting role as a child.
Tommy Lee Jones’ daughter, Victoria, was found dead inside an upscale San Francisco hotel on New Year’s Day. They are pictured together at the opening ceremony for the 30th Tokyo International Film Festival in 2017
Victoria was born on September 3, 1991 to Jones and his second wife Kimberlea Cloughley, whom he was married to from 1981 to 1996. Jones, Cloughley and Victoria pictured in 2002
Victoria has attended occasional red carpets alongside her father. She is pictured with Jones, his third wife Dawn Laurel-Jones and Hilary Swank at the premiere of The Homesman
By 2002, she made her movie debut with a small part in her father’s picture Men in Black II.
She would go on to appear in a handful of acting projects as a child, including a 2005 episode of One Tree Hill and a role that same year the Western picture The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which was directed by her father.
Although she has not acted onscreen since her role as a cheerleader on One Tree Hill, she has attended the occasional red carpets alongside Jones as an adult.
In 2017, she posed proudly at his side at the ArcLight Hollywood for the premiere of his movie Just Getting Started, also starring Morgan Freeman and Rene Russo.
She also made an appearance with her father in October 2017 at the opening of that year’s Tokyo International Film Festival, where he was serving as president of the international competition jury.
After directing his daughter in The Three Burials of Melquiades, Jones showered praise on Victoria in an interview promoting the film.
‘She’s a good actress, has her SAG card, speaks impeccable Spanish,’ he said. ‘When she was a baby, I told Leticia, her nurse, to speak to her in Spanish.’
He also related a charming anecdote about having to acclimatize his then 14-year-old daughter to the rigors of working on a Hollywood movie set.
Victoria made her acting debut with a small part in her father’s picture Men in Black II in 2002. The father and daughter are pictured at The Missing film premiere in 2003
In 2017, she posed proudly at his side at the ArcLight Hollywood for the premiere of his movie Just Getting Started, also starring Morgan Freeman and Rene Russo
Victoria Jones was lying on the ground of the 14th floor of the Fairmont hotel in San Francisco
‘She had to get up at 5am for her part. One morning, she wouldn’t get out of bed. I said: “Honey, this is work.” But she wouldn’t budge,’ he told the New Yorker.
‘So I fired her. Then, without telling me, the production staff went over and woke her and rushed her out to the set just in time,’ he recalled.
Victoria is now survived by Jones, Cloughley and her brother, Austin.
The Daily Mail has contacted Tommy Lee Jones’ representatives for comment, as well as the Fairmont San Francisco and the San Francisco Police Department.
