31-05-2025
Loretta Swit's Last Moments Emerge. Who Found Her?
To some fans, Loretta Swit will always be known as Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan, the character she played on the long-running sitcom M*A*S*H.
Swit passed away on May 30, 2025, at the age of 87. Although the official cause of death was not released, some details about Swit's last moments are emerging.
Her publicist, Harlan Boll, shared some of those details with TMZ.
According to Boll, Swit spoke with him on the evening of Thursday, May 29, and she "seemed fine."
She was at her apartment in New York City, TMZ reported.
Around 10 a.m., her maid discovered her deceased, and she was pronounced dead two hours later at noon, Boll told the entertainment news site.
Boll is the person who told TMZ she died of natural causes, although the formal cause of death is pending.
Swit was an accomplished actress who received 10 Emmy nominations during her lifetime, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Swit was not married at the time of her death. According to THR, she was married once in her life, to the actor Dennis Holahan, "whom she met on the set of M*A*S*H, from 1983 until their divorce in 1995."
Although best known for the Houlihan character, Swit had a lengthy number of television credits to her name, aording to IMDb.
'I always wanted to be an actress,' Swit told People in a 1979 over story that ran during the height of her career. 'Luckily, my mother loved movies and we would go to double features and sit through both films twice.'Loretta Swit's Last Moments Emerge. Who Found Her? first appeared on Men's Journal on May 31, 2025
