New details about Jamie Lee Curtis’ sister Kelly’s death emerge

Jamie Lee Curtis’ sister, Kelly Lee Curtis, died of earthy causes, Page Six tin confirm.

Jamie shared connected Instagram that her older sister died Saturday morning, penning that Kelly passed distant astatine her location successful “at peace.” She was 69 years old.

Kelly died astatine 2:30 a.m. Saturday and had been successful hospice attraction for nan past week anterior to her death, Us Weekly reported. According to nan outlet, she is expected to beryllium cremated.

Kelly was besides an actress, starring successful 1987’s “Magic Sticks” and 1991’s “The Devil’s Daughter.” At nan clip of her death, she was joined to filmmaker John Marsh.

Jamie and Kelly’s parents are actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, who were joined for 11 years earlier they divided successful 1962. Tony besides had 4 children done his later marriages: Alexandra, Allegra, Benjamin, and Nicholas — nan second who died successful 1994 from a heroin overdose astatine 23 years old.

In Jamie’s tribute to Kelly, nan “Halloween” actress, 67, called her older sister her “first friend and lifelong confidant.”

Jamie wrote of her only afloat sibling: “She was jaw droppingly beautiful, and a talented actress. She played a mean crippled of hearts, collected turtles, loved her family, nature, music, thrifting, travel, Facebook, and Pokémon Go. She was proud of her Danish roots and Hungarian Jewish ancestry and was a devoted American patriot.”

“She will beryllium remembered for her loving generosity, fierce opinions, endless curiosity, unsocial style, and her powdered, almond, crescent cookies astatine Christmas, hence her name, Auntie Cookie,” she continued.

Journalist Chris Connelly commented connected nan station pinch his ain memories of Kelly.

“She joined our precocious schoolhouse people elder year, and it was arsenic if she’d stepped disconnected a meteorite,” he recalled. “Walked successful beauty, for illustration nan night. Quoted lyrics from Tumbleweed Connection connected her elder page successful our yearbook. Into our NYC world, she was nan coolest breeze of caller aerial … and ever to beryllium remembered.”

Jamie later shared never-before-seen photos of her and Kelly connected Instagram, which were taken erstwhile Kelly slept complete nan nighttime earlier Jamie joined hubby Christopher Guest successful December 1984.

“My sister and I were adjacent arsenic children but besides had that related title for divided parent’s attraction and emotion and we were wildly different and lived isolated for galore years, but she came backmost to beryllium pinch maine astatine my wedding and ne'er really near again,” she shared.

“I miss her coming but americium buoyed by nan knowledge that she is astatine peace,” she concluded.