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Cody Longo, greatest identified for his roles on Days of Our Lives and Hollywood Heights, has died. He was 34.
In an announcement to PEOPLE, Longo’s spouse Stephanie paid tribute to the late actor following his loss of life.
“Cody was our whole world. The kids and I are shattered and beyond devastated,” she shared of the couple’s three younger kids. “He was the best dad and best father. We will always and forever miss you and love you.”
Longo’s supervisor Alex Gittelson additionally remembered his “dear friend for over a decade.”
“My heart breaks for his beautiful family,” he mentioned of Longo. “He had taken some time away from acting to pursue music and spend more time with his family in Nashville, but we had kept in touch regularly and he was excited to get back into acting this year.”
Gittelson added: “Cody was such a loyal, loving and talented person and he will be greatly missed.”
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A member of the family instructed TMZ that Longo’s physique was discovered by authorities in mattress at a residence in Austin, Texas, after Stephanie was unable to achieve him.
The Austin Police Department didn’t instantly return PEOPLE’s request for remark.
Longo performed Nicholas Alamain — the son of Carly Manning (Crystal Chappell) — on Days of Our Lives for eight episodes in 2011. He additionally appeared on Hollywood Heights, Make It or Break It and Nashville.
In addition to appearing, Longo launched singles “She Said” and “Electric.”
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In January 2021, Longo pleaded responsible to a misdemeanor assault cost in Colorado referring to a 2019 incident with a 9-year-old lady, based on Clarksville Now.
The actor was arrested in January 2020 and charged with a category 4 felony, intercourse assault on a baby, based on courtroom data obtained by the outlet. (The felony costs had been dropped following the plea.)
He was additionally arrested in November 2020 on a home assault cost after his spouse instructed police he shoved her within the face together with his forearm, based on a police report obtained by the outlet.
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At time of Longo’s November arrest, his lawyer Iris Eytan launched an announcement concerning the intercourse assault on a baby cost, sharing partly, “Overwhelming evidence unequivocally disproves and refutes the allegations in the affidavit. Other than the evidence of innocence revealed in the actual, not summarized, interviews in the affidavit, additional evidence completely exonerates him,” per Clarksville Now.
Eytan added: “This evidence includes opinions by a very experienced and licensed polygrapher, and a psychologist. These experts determined that Cody Longo was truthful when he denied the claims in the affidavit, and that he is not a risk to minors, and the accusations are unfounded.”
PEOPLE has reached out to Eytan for remark, however didn’t instantly hear again.
Longo is survived by his spouse and three kids.
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