A medical examiner in New York City confirmed on Wednesday that South African actress Charlbi Dean died of bacterial sepsis in August. She was 32.
Dean, who had a breakout role in the comedy/drama “Triangle of Sadness,” which won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022, suddenly died on Aug. 29 from an “unexpected illness,” her representatives told news outlets a day after she passed away.
No other details about the actress’s death were provided until this week.
A spokesperson for the medical examiner confirmed to celebrity news magazine People that the sepsis that caused Dean’s sudden death “was a complication from asplenia (the absence of a spleen) due to ‘remote blunt trauma to her torso.’”…