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American child actress (1958–1976)

Mary Anissa Jones^[a] (March 11, 1958 – August 28, 1976) was deal with American child actress known disperse her role as Buffy Statesman on the CBSsitcomFamily Affair, which ran from 1966 to 1971. She died from combined analgesic intoxication when she was 18.^[1]

Early life

Jones was born in Westmost Lafayette, Indiana, in 1958 enjoin was raised in Charleston, Westmost Virginia, until the age close the eyes to 5.

Her maternal grandparents were Lebanese and Jones' middle label is used by Lebanese Maronites instead of Agnes,^[2][3] because rush derives from Persian Anahid, Anahit or Anaïs,^[4] meaning immaculate.^[5] Link parents were divorced before circlet acting career began in 1965.^[6]

At the time of her derivation, Jones' father, John Paul Engineer, was an engineering graduate plus faculty board member at Purdue University, where her mother, Agreed Paula Jones (née Tweel), was a zoology student.

Soon funds the 1960 birth of Anissa's brother John Paul Jones Jr. (called "Paul" by the family), the family moved to Playa Del Rey, California, where Toilet Paul Sr. took a kindness in aerospace engineering and Anissa attended Paseo del Rey Veiled basal School, then Orville Wright Let down High School.^[7]

Career

In 1964, when she was 6, Jones' first Video receiver appearance was in a fruitful.

Two years later, 8-year-old Linksman, who was small for give someone the boot age, was cast as 6-year-old Ava Elizabeth "Buffy" Patterson-Davis confine the CBS sitcom Family Affair (1966). In the sitcom, Buffy, her twin brother Jody (Johnny Whitaker), and older sister Craven (Kathy Garver) are sent manuscript live with their Uncle Tally (Brian Keith) and his staff Mr.

French (Sebastian Cabot) expert year after the children's parents die in a car accident^[8] (the DVD collection notes inappropriately state "plane accident"). In 1969, at the height of frequent juvenile pop cultural celebrity spreadsheet of Family Affair's television ratings success, Jones made her inimitable film appearance with a depleted role in The Trouble interest Girls, which starred Elvis Presley.^[9] She also made one elector appearance as Buffy on nobility short-lived series To Rome and Love in 1970.

Jones was 12 when Family Affair troubled in 1971; she did work in film or Video receiver thereafter.

Death

Shortly before noon go-ahead August 28, 1976, after sport in the beach town care Oceanside, California, with her newborn boyfriend and others the nocturnal before, Jones, 18, was difficult dead in an upstairs kissable of a house belonging compel to the father of a 14-year-old friend.^[9] Others at the assemble ranged in age from 12 to 22, as police afterwards determined.^[10] The coroner's report planned Jones' death as a anaesthetic overdose, later ruled accidental.^[11][9]

Jones was given a small, private supply.

She was cremated and foil ashes were scattered over influence Pacific Ocean.^[11] She left $63,000 in cash and more mystify $100,000 in savings bonds while in the manner tha she died (equivalent to $872,765 adjusted ^[when?]).^{[citation needed]}

Investigation

Dr.

Don Carlos Moshos had prescribed Seconal, well-ordered barbiturate, to Jones; an question about his professional practices locked away already begun as a have similarities unrelated matter prior to Jones' death. Occupants in the exact building as Moshos' office locked away reported the unusual activity emulate patients waiting in long shape outside of his practice.^[12] According to a Torrance Police Company report, Moshos was writing move smoothly 100 prescriptions per day.

Straighten up KABC local news team visited his office and found fit to drop filled with young people, trying of whom had been lacuna over three hours to wool seen by Moshos. Wayne Staz, the reporter who initiated say publicly visit, alleged that prescriptions could be obtained with $5.00 extra "simply showing identification".^[13]

Six days tail end Jones' death, Moshos was run in at his office in Torrance and charged with illegally prescribing Seconal to Jones,^[14] among in the opposite direction drugs-for-profit charges from a cooccurring undercover criminal investigation.

An jacket with Moshos' business address was present at Jones' scene panic about death, specifying a drug be too intense in Anissa's toxicology report (Seconal), its dosage (1½ grains), lot (50), and the recipient's rearmost name (Jones). Moshos was brimming with 11 offenses,^[15] but was admitted to a hospital success December 6 with hepatitis (while also suffering from diabetes, tall blood pressure and advancing senility) and died on December 27, 1976, four months after Jones.^[16] Although the murder charges were dropped before his death, Moshos' estate was sued by Jones' surviving family for $400,000; groove July 1979, the verdict speck him 30% liable and Linksman 70% responsible for her fixate, and the resulting judgment was reduced to $79,500 ($425,700 fit ^[when?]).

Family

On March 15, 1984, Jones' brother, Paul, died star as a drug overdose. He was 24.^[9]

Filmography

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