Authorities try to determine how Leslie Jordan died as mourning fans flock to crash site

Leslie Jordan in 2021
Leslie Jordan, photographed in 2021, died Monday after the automobile he was driving crashed right into a constructing in Hollywood.
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Authorities are attempting to find out a reason for dying for Leslie Jordan, the beloved comedy actor who died Monday after his automobile crashed right into a constructing in Hollywood.

The Los Angeles County coroner plans an post-mortem Tuesday on Jordan, 67, who was declared useless on the scene after the BMW he was driving slammed right into a constructing at Cahuenga Boulevard and Romaine Avenue.

It was not instantly clear whether or not Jordan was killed within the crash or suffered a medical emergency beforehand, however the situation of the automobile urged he might have misplaced management of the automobile, a legislation enforcement supply mentioned.

The supply advised The Instances on Tuesday that these on the scene suspect Jordan suffered some sort of cardiac episode previous to the crash.

Black skid marks from Cahuenga Boulevard led over the curb and onto the sidewalk the place Jordan’s BMW struck the constructing’s metallic facade round 9:30 a.m. and dented it.

A car rests on the sidewalk after crashing into a building.
The scene at Cahuenga Boulevard and Romaine Avenue in Hollywood the place actor Leslie Jordan’s automobile crashed on Monday.
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Jordan gained an Emmy in 2006 for his efficiency because the snide Beverley Leslie within the hit TV present “Will & Grace” and have become an web sensation through the pandemic.

The diminutive dandy — Jordan was 4 ft 11 and homosexual — was celebrated as an LGBTQ icon who expanded the chances of queer identification on and off the display screen.

As information of his dying circulated Monday, police continued to analyze the crash scene whereas followers created a makeshift memorial on the intersection.

Joey Wiser and Felipe Araipa dropped by on their means house. Each grew up watching Jordan on “Will & Grace” and had been among the many hundreds of thousands who loved his amusing pandemic dispatches on Instagram.

“I believe it introduced a variety of us collectively in a time once we weren't positive what was happening,” Wiser mentioned of Jordan’s social media antics.

Chloë Phoenix, who drove to the positioning together with her mom, Jessie, and sister Jazmine, gleefully pulled out her telephone and grinned whereas watching one among Jordan’s viral movies, the place he spins with a baton in hand and yells, “Daddy, watch me twirl!”

The sisters mentioned they admired how Jordan represented the LGBTQ neighborhood. Their mom mentioned Jazmine was in tears after studying about his dying.

“Not a variety of celebrities contact you in that means,” Jessie Phoenix mentioned after the household lit a prayer candle alongside flowers. “This was a complete crush for us.”

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