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After years of playing Buffy Davis on the CBS sitcom "Family Affair," actress Anissa Jones died of a massive overdose at 18-years-old on August 28, 1976. With her blond pigtails and eager smile, Anissa Jones charmed TV audiences in her role as Buffy on Family Affair.
Child star Anissa Jones tragically died at the age of 18 years old. Here's what her autopsy report revealed.
Mary Anissa Jones / ə ˈ n iː s ə / [a] (March 11, 1958 – August 28, 1976) was an American child actress known for her role as Buffy Davis on the CBS sitcom Family Affair, which ran from 1966 to 1971. She died from combined drug intoxication when she was 18. [1]
Anissa was declared dead from what the coroner would reportedly call one of the most massive overdoses he'd ever seen. Anissa Jones was just eighteen years old. A friend, fellow student and partymate Steve Hanford recalled the following about Anissa's death. "The night Anissa died was wierd. She wasn't being very social.
After a night of partying with her friends and then-boyfriend, she suffered an overdose. About six days later, her doctor, Don Carlos Moshos, was charged with manslaughter for illegally prescribing Seconal to her. He died while awaiting trial and the case was closed.
Unable to get past the death of his daughter and deal with everything else on top of it all, he decided to end it all on June 24, 1997, when he shot himself in the head. Other cast members from “Family Affair” died as well, death seems to be around everyone that starred in the show.
As the adorable Buffy, in the hit 1960s sitcom Family Affair (1966), Anissa Jones was the most famous child star of her generation. But on August 28th 1976, she died at a friend's house in Oceanside, California.
When former child star Anissa Jones died in 1976 at the age of 18, the circumstances were so disturbing it began to spark rumors of a curse.
The show’s young star, Anissa Jones (who played the youngest sibling, Buffy) died of an apparent drug overdose in 1976. Then Sebastian Cabot (who played Mr. Giles French) passed away from a stroke in 1977.
As the adorable Buffy in the 1960s sitcom "Family Affair," Anissa Jones was one of the most famous child stars of her generation; forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Hunter investigates her life...