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Chilling details emerge in mysterious death of Tommy Lee Jones's former child star - jasongeek - 01-02-2026
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.
By MARJORIE HERNANDEZ, US WEST COAST NEWS EDITOR and SAMEER SURI, US SENIOR SHOWBUSINESS REPORTER and MELISSA KOENIG, US REPORTER
Published: 00:01 EST, 2 January 2026 | Updated: 08:32 EST, 2 January 2026
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 who thought she might be drunk alerted hotel staff, a source told the Daily Mail.
The staffers quickly realized Victoria was unresponsive and immediately started CPR and called for an ambulance.
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 who thought she might be drunk alerted hotel staff, a source told the Daily Mail.
The staffers quickly realized Victoria was unresponsive and immediately started CPR and called for an ambulance.
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 carpet 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.
'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 survived by Jones, Cloughley and her brother, Austin.
The Daily Mail has contacted Tommy Lee Jones's representatives for comment, as well as the Fairmont San Francisco and the San Francisco Police Department.