Details have surfaced from a 911 call regarding the circumstances leading up to Diane Keaton’s passing.
Keaton, who passed away on Saturday, October 11, at the age of 79, was taken by ambulance from her residence in Los Angeles to a nearby medical center on the day of her passing, according to 911 audio obtained by TMZ.
According to the dispatch audio obtained, a dispatcher can be heard telling the Los Angeles Fire Department, “Rescue 19, person down,” before providing the address of the Father of the Bride star.
Keaton’s death was confirmed by her spokesperson in a statement issued to People on Saturday.
“At this time, no further information is available, and her family requests privacy during this time of profound sadness,” the statement stated. Us Weekly contacted Keaton’s representatives for comments on her death.
The LAFD verified to the publication that they responded to a call at Keaton’s residence at 8:08 a.m. on Saturday, and a 79-year-old individual was transported by ambulance. An insider later told TMZ that the individual was Keaton.
Following the announcement of the Annie Hall actress’s death, a friend of Keaton’s informed People that her health had “declined very suddenly” in recent months. Though Keaton had been a regular in her Brentwood, California, neighborhood, often seen walking her dog Reggie, she had abruptly ceased appearing in public earlier this year, her friend noted.
Keaton’s friend informed the outlet that the Book Club actress spent her final months “surrounded only by her closest family,” including her daughter, Dexter, 29, and son, Duke, 25. She became a single mother when she adopted both of her children in her 50s.
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Her friend shared that “Even longtime friends weren’t fully aware of what was happening,” explaining that Keaton’s health was kept “very private” by her family.
Keaton put her beloved 1920s Sullivan Canyon home on the market for $28.9 million back in March, and later reduced the asking price by $1.4 million. The choice to sell came as a surprise to many fans, given that she had spent years renovating the property and had written a book in 2017 titled The House That Pinterest Built about the experience.
Since the news broke, numerous tributes to Keaton have poured in from her many costars over the years, including Ed Begley Jr., her Book Club costar. Begley, 76, exclusively informed Us that he was “extremely close to Diane” and that he “loved her a lot.”
The pair first appeared together in the 1992 TV movie Running Mates, and later reunited in the 2018 romantic comedy Book Club.
Steve Martin, meanwhile, who appeared alongside Keaton in both Father of the Bride films, responded to the news via social media.
“Loved!” he posted alongside a throwback image of the actress. Martin, 80, also included a quote from Annie Hall: “La dee da, la dee da.”
Woody Allen, who collaborated with Keaton on several films, including Annie Hall, and was romantically involved with the actress in the early 1970s, shared an extensive tribute via The Free Press.
Allen, 79, expressed in his essay, “It’s grammatically incorrect to say ‘most unique,’ but when discussing Diane Keaton, all rules of grammar, and I suppose everything else, are suspended. She was unlike anyone else the planet has ever seen or is likely to see again, and her face and laugh illuminated any space she entered.”
He later added, “The world included Diane Keaton just a few days ago. It is now a world that does not. As a result, it is a sadder world. There are still her films, though. And I can still hear her wonderful laugh in my mind.”
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