Overview
- Los Angeles County medical examiner records released late June list acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) as the primary cause of death for Daveigh Chase and record chronic polysubstance use as a significant contributing condition.
- The report also states the manner of death is natural and the case remained listed as open in the examiner’s online records, leaving some investigatory and toxicology details pending.
- Initial public accounts from a man identified as Chase’s boyfriend and from family members said she had developed meningitis, severe blood infections and malnutrition before her hospitalization, a narrative the coroner’s report now clarifies with an official medical determination.
- A GoFundMe launched during Chase’s final hospital stay by Roy Hernandez has been publicly contested by her former manager and family, who say estate and next‑of‑kin arrangements are being handled by relatives and urged people not to donate to that page.
- Chase rose to fame as a child actor who voiced Lilo in Lilo & Stitch and played Samara in The Ring, and reporting ties the coroner’s findings to years of substance use, periods of homelessness and estrangement that shaped her final years.