'Columbo' star Peter Falk's daughter Jackie dies at 60

Jacqueline Falk, girl of the precocious “Columbo” prima Peter Falk, died Monday by suicide, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner. She was 60.

Jackie Falk died astatine her Los Angeles residence, the department’s website said. The lawsuit is inactive listed arsenic open.

The Times was incapable to get further accusation astir Jackie Falk’s decease Wednesday arsenic the aesculapian examiner’s nationalist accusation bureau was closed due to the fact that of staffing issues.

Peter Falk was 83 erstwhile helium died astatine his Beverly Hills location successful June 2011.

He and archetypal woman Alyce Mayo joined successful 1960 and aboriginal adopted sisters Jackie and Catherine. The assemblage sweethearts divorced successful 1976, but according to Catherine — who was astir 5 erstwhile her parents divided — they remained “best friends.”

“I retrieve watching my ma and dada laughter and archer stories astir their assemblage years,” she told Closer mag successful 2023. “It was bully arsenic a teen to acquisition that.”

Peter Falk would bring some her and her older sister Jackie to movie premieres and acceptable visits, and loved to instrumentality them crystal skating, Catherine Falk said.

In 1977, helium joined histrion Shera Danese, who helium met portion making the 1976 movie “Mikey and Nicky.”

“He saw maine walking down the street, and that was it,” Danese told The Times successful 1991. She said with a giggle that astatine 15 years oregon truthful into their marriage, “I archer him what to do.” Danese has not acted successful movie oregon TV since the twelvemonth earlier Peter Falk’s death, according to IMDb.

The household communicative grew analyzable erstwhile Catherine Falk alleged that Danese hindered entree to their father.

After what she said was an costly ineligible conflict to summation visitation precocious successful her father’s life, Catherine Falk has a website dedicated to the transition of laws to warrant a caller spouse can’t forestall children from a erstwhile matrimony from visiting an incapacitated parent. She said connected the tract that her dada maintained a 30-year loving narration with her and Jackie contempt alleged interference from his caller wife.

In 2009, aft petitioning the tribunal to person her ailing begetter placed nether a conservatorship, Catherine was permitted to sojourn Peter Falk, who was suffering from dementia. Danese was named the “Columbo” actor’s conservator. Jackie, who did not articulation the tribunal combat to person entree to her father, was not capable to sojourn him during the 3 years earlier his death, the Catherine Falk Foundation website said.

The women recovered retired astir their father’s decease via media accounts, the website said.