Aubrey Plaza: Devastated actress speaks out about husband's suicide two days after his death

On Monday, January 6, 2025, Aubrey Plaza broke her silence following the tragic death of her husband Jeff Baena. In a statement, she expressed her deep distress at this disappearance.

© Bestimage Aubrey Plaza has broken her silence after the death of her husband, Jeff Baena.

IN BRIEF

• On January 3, 2024, Jeff Baena, husband of Aubrey Plaza, was murdered. found death à Los Angeles à the age of 47.
• The coroner confirmed that Jeff Baena committed suicide by hanging himself, leaving Aubrey Plaza devastated.
• Aubrey Plaza broke her silence on Monday, January 6, 2024.

A tragic loss. On Friday, January 3, 2024, Jeff Baena's lifeless body was found at his home in Los Angeles. Aubrey Plaza's husband's assistant was the one who was the first to call for help after discovering him inert. Despite their intervention, they could do nothing to bring the screenwriter and director back to life. The medical examiner said a few days later that Jeff Baena had ended his life by hanging when he was 47 years old.

Faced with such a tragedy, Aubrey Plaza initially preferred to remain silent. Her family had simply declared to Deadline that they were devastated by the tragic and brutal loss of her husband and that they wished for her privacy to be respected in order to begin their mourning. Finally, on Monday, January 6, 2024, she made the decision to speak out through a press release.

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Aubrey Plaza: “This is an unimaginable tragedy”

In a short text that was co-signed with her family, the actress revealed in the series Parks & Recreationand who most recently starred in the Disney Marvel series Agatha all along, The White Lotus, and Megalopolis would like to thank all those who took the time to send him messages of condolence. “This is an unimaginable tragedy. We are deeply grateful to all those who have offered their support. Please respect our privacy during this time,” the statement reads.

As a reminder, Aubrey Plaza and Jeff Baena had been a couple since 2011 and were married in 2021, during the Covid-19 pandemic. The actress had also made some revelations about this union on the set of The Ellen DeGeneres Show in December 2021.

Aubrey Plaza and Jeff Baena had been married since 2021

“A lot happened during COVID for me. Yes, we got married. It was a beautiful story“, she had declared at first before evoking the originality of their union.

“We got a little bored one night. We got married and I'll tell you how: Onehourmarriage.com. That's right, look it up. We were in lockdown. Things got a little crazy, especially at my house. My husband started dying his shirts and when I say dying his shirts, I mean 50 shirts a day“, she added.