A rising star at celebrity trials like O.J. Simpson’s. Then a quiet, mysterious death

Kristin Jeannette-Meyers made a career showing America the darkness behind its sunny facades. “We felt like we were at the center of the universe,” recalled ABC’s chief legal affairs correspondent, Dan Abrams, a Court TV colleague who worked side-by-side with Jeannette-Meyers during the former NFL star’s murder prosecution. A coroner’s investigator who arrived in June at a dilapidated Spanish villa behind a high hedge and in view of the Hollywood sign noted the decomposed state of her remains and wrote, “It is unknown the last time the decedent was known to be alive.” Kristin Jeannette-Meyers, a once-celebrated television journalist, was found dead in her home, center bottom, in June 2023. “A tabloid described me as ‘Kristin Jeannette-Meyers’ blond gal pal,’” recalled the other banished journalist, Gale Holland, who retired from The Times last year. Sanchez, the caregiver who arrived the following year, said Jeannette-Meyers seemed optimistic about reconciliation with her husband and daughter: “She talked about her marriage like it was sacred, like it was the greatest thing.” By then, there appeared to be few good things in Jeannette-Meyers’ life.