Overview

• Plaza appeared on NBC’s Today on Oct. 8 to promote Luna and the Witch Throw a Halloween Party, her third children’s book.
• She credited her grandmother, Margie, with teaching her that “life is a party” and to “have fun and move forward,” describing the book as an homage to the women who raised her.
• The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner previously ruled husband Jeff Baena’s January death a suicide at 47, and the family issued a statement calling it an “unimaginable tragedy” and asking for privacy.
• Reporting has said Plaza and Baena were separated months before his death, following a long relationship that began in 2011 and a private 2021 marriage.
• In August, Plaza spoke on Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast about a “daily struggle” with grief, likening it to “a giant ocean of awfulness.”