Late Gossip Girl and Buffy star Michelle Trachtenberg’s boyfriend was holding down the fort at her family’s Los Angeles home on Wednesday after her mother found the actress dead in her New York apartment.
Teary-eyed and in the throes of grief, talent agent Jay Cohen, 63, answered the door at the Trachtenbergs’ Sherman Oaks home.
His presence at the family home suggests he and the Buffy the Vampire Slayer star, who died age 39, were still dating, after being first officially linked in 2020.
And residency records linked Michelle and her mother to the four-bed, 2,620 square-feet Sherman Oaks home dating back several years. Cohen is registered as residing there from 2021.
He told DailyMail.com that ‘the family will not be commenting on the tragedy.’
He added that Michelle’s sister and mother were not home – as her mother was reportedly the one to find the Gossip Girl star’s body at her Manhattan apartment around 8am Wednesday morning.
Late Gossip Girl and Buffy star Michelle Trachtenberg’s, 39, boyfriend of nearly five years was holding down the fort at her family’s Los Angeles home on Wednesday after her passing