Overview
- Her representatives confirmed she died at 71 following a brief illness, with no official cause of death released by the Los Angeles Medical Examiner.
- First responders were called to her Brentwood home at 4:48 a.m. for breathing difficulties and transported a woman in serious condition, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
- Reports conflict on where she died, with authorities indicating a hospital and her representatives stating she died at home.
- O'Hara had long shared that she was born with dextrocardia with situs inversus, a congenital variation in which the heart and other organs are reversed from typical positions.
- Medical sources such as the Cleveland Clinic and NIH describe the condition as rare—about 1 in 10,000 people—and often asymptomatic, and coverage does not establish any link to her death.