Anne Heche ‘peacefully taken off life support’ after death announcement

The actor, severely injured in a car crash on 5 August, had been legally declared dead, but had life support maintained to facilitate organ donation

Anne Heche has been taken off life support, a family representative said, following the announcement of her death on Friday.

Heche, 53, had been severely injured in a single-vehicle car crash on 5 August, and had suffered a severe anoxic brain injury", according to a statement to CNN by Heche's family. Her brain death" was confirmed on Friday, meeting a legal definition of death in California, but it is understood life support was maintained to facilitate organ donation. A family representative said she had been peacefully taken off life support" on Sunday.