A Los Angeles Independent newspaper article from August 17, 2005 states that her autopsy concluded that she died of "polydrug intoxication complicated by severe steatohepatitis".
Was discovered dead in a ramshackled Los Angeles apartment on December
14, 2004. The cause was listed as unknown but drug abuse was suspected.
She graduated from Our Lady of Corvallis High School, a Catholic Girls School in Studio City, California with the Class of 1984. The school closed three years later.