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Audio from a 911 call has revealed new details regarding the events leading up to Diane Keaton‘s death.
Keaton, who died at 79 years old on Saturday, October 11, was transported from her Los Angeles home via ambulance to a nearby hospital on the day of her death, according to 911 audio obtained by TMZ.
“Rescue 19, person down,” a dispatcher can be heard saying to the Los Angeles Fire Department per the obtained dispatch audio, before giving the Father of the Bride actress’ address.
Keaton’s spokesperson confirmed her death in a statement to People on Saturday.
“There are no further details available at this time, and her family has asked for privacy in this moment of great sadness,” the statement read. Us Weekly reached out to reps for Keaton for comment on her death.
The LAFD confirmed to the publication that they responded to a call at Keaton’s home at 8:08 a.m. on Saturday morning, and an ambulance took one 79-year-old individual away. An insider later revealed to TMZ that the person was Keaton.
Following the news of the Annie Hall star’s passing, a friend of Keaton’s told People that her health had “declined very suddenly” in her last few months. Though Keaton had once been a fixture of her Brentwood, California, neighborhood, often seen on walks with her dog Reggie, she had suddenly stopped appearing in public earlier this year, her friend explained.
Keaton’s friend told the outlet that the Book Club actress was “surrounded only by her closest family” in her final months, which included daughter Dexter, 29, and son Duke, 25. She adopted both of her children as a single mother in her 50s.

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“Even longtime friends weren’t fully aware of what was happening,” her friend said, explaining that Keaton’s family kept her health “very private.”
Back in March, Keaton listed her beloved 1920s-style Sullivan Canyon home on the market for $28.9 million, later slashing $1.4 million off the asking price. The decision to sell came as a shock to many fans, as she had spent years renovating the home and wrote a book about the process in 2017 called The House That Pinterest Built.
Countless reactions to Keaton’s death from her many costars through the years have poured in since news broke, including one from her Book Club costar Ed Begley Jr. Begley, 76, who exclusively told Us that he was “extremely close to Diane” and “loved her a lot.”
The pair first starred together in the 992 TV movie Running Mates before later going on to appear together in the 2018 romantic comedy Book Club.
Meanwhile, Steve Martin, who starred alongside Keaton in both Father of the Bride films, reacted to the news via social media.
“Loved!” he wrote alongside a throwback photo of the actress. Martin, 80, also shared a quote from Annie Hall: “La dee da, la dee da.”
Woody Allen, who worked with Keaton on several films, including Annie Hall, and dated the actress in the early 1970s, shared a lengthy tribute via The Free Press.
“It’s grammatically incorrect to say ‘most unique,’ but all rules of grammar, and I guess anything else, are suspended when talking about Diane Keaton. Unlike anyone the planet has experienced or is unlikely to ever see again, her face and laugh illuminated any space she entered,” Allen, 79, wrote in his essay.
He later added, “A few days ago, the world was a place that included Diane Keaton. Now it’s a world that does not. Hence, it’s a drearier world. Still, there are her movies. And her great laugh still echoes in my head.”