Entertainment & Lifestyle > Entertainment
Michelle Trachtenberg, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' star, dies at 39

NEW YORK — 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.