Michelle Trachtenberg, Star of 'Gossip Girl' And 'Harriet the Spy,' Dies at 39
She was found unconscious and unresponsive at a Manhattan apartment in New York City.
Michelle Trachtenberg
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NEW YORK (AP) — Michelle Trachtenberg, a former child star who appeared in the 1996 “Harriet the Spy” hit movie and went on to co-star in two buzzy millennial-era TV shows — “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Gossip Girl” — has died. She was 39.
Police responded to a 911 call shortly after 8 a.m. at a 51-story luxury apartment tower in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood where officers found Trachtenberg "unconscious and unresponsive,” according to an NYPD statement.