▲The Colombian actress' older brother was kidnapped and murdered in 1998.

▲Rafael Vergara was 27 when he was shot in a kidnapping attempt gone wrong in Colombia, according to the New York Post.

▲The father of the basketball legend was gunned down while taking a nap in his car in 1993.

▲James Jordan was parked on the side of the road when two men recognized his license plate as belonging to the cherry-red Lexus MJ gave him. The men killed James and stole the vehicle.

▲The South African actress's Benoni home became the scene of her father's murder in 1991 when her mother shot and killed him.

▲Her mother, Gerda Maritz, acted in self-defense after Charles Theron pulled a gun on his wife and daughter in a drunken fit. Maritz did not face charges.

▲The actor's brother, Scott Ruffalo, was found with gun wounds in a Beverly Hills condo in 2008. He later died in the hospital.

▲Investigators initially believed he had shot himself in a game of Russian roulette, but this theory was later dismissed. The case remains unsolved.

▲The singer and actress lost her mother, brother, and nephew in a 2008 tragedy.

▲Her brother-in-law was in the process of separating from Hudson's sister Julia when he killed the family in their Chicago home.

▲The son of the former comedian, Ennis, was shot and killed near Interstate 405 in Los Angeles during a robbery attempt in 1997.

▲The then-18-year-old Mikhail Markhasev (pictured) was convicted of murder and sentenced to life. After years of insisting he was innocent, Markhasev confessed to the murder in 2001.

▲The actor best known for his role in the series 'The Practice' lost his mother to murder when he was five years old, after she was reportedly shot by her live-in boyfriend John Sponza.

▲Sponza, who police said had ties to organized crime, alleged that she had accidentally shot herself after picking up a gun he had been cleaning. Sponza himself was murdered five years later.

▲The Jane's Addiction guitarist and former member of the band Red Hot Chili Peppers lost his mother to murder in 1983 when he was a teenager.

▲Navarro's mother was killed by her ex-boyfriend John Riccardi. Riccardi was arrested eight years later after Navarro appeared on 'America's Most Wanted,' which led to a tip from a viewer.

▲Price was riding in an SUV driven by her boyfriend, who police reported was the intended victim. Robert Edward Maxfield, a member of the Crips gang, was sentenced to 15 years for voluntary manslaughter.

▲The 'Cheers' and 'Frasier' actor lost both his father and younger sister to murder. His father was shot in 1968 after a man set fire to his car in front of the Grammer home. Upon going outside to check on the commotion, he was shot twice.

▲Seven years later, Grammer's sister Karen was raped and murdered during a 1975 killing spree committed by Freddie Lee Glenn (pictured) and two other men.

▲The basketball player lost his first cousin, Nykea Aldridge, who was fatally shot while pushing her child in a stroller in Chicago's Parkway Gardens in 2016.

▲The 32-year-old mother of four was hit when two men exchanged gunfire nearby. Her child was unharmed.

▲The rapper's half-sister was killed in 1981 when he was 12 years old.

▲Beverly Jean Brown was 22 when her husband shot and killed her before turning the gun on himself.

▲The infamous French-Polish filmmaker's wife, actress Sharon Tate, was killed by members of the Manson Family.

▲Tate was almost nine months pregnant with the couple's son when four members of the Manson Family invaded Tate and Polanski's Los Angeles home and stabbed her. She and four others died in the attack.

▲The rapper's father, Melvin Combs, was shot and killed while sitting in his car on Central Park West. P. Diddy was a toddler.

▲The elder Combs, who was an associate of convicted New York drug dealer Frank Lucas, died as a consequence of a drug deal gone bad, P. Diddy has said according to XXL magazine.

▲The soap opera actor lost both parents at the hands of two teenagers during an armed robbery in 1986.

▲Duffy's parents were the owners of a Montana tavern, which was the target of the robbery gone wrong.

▲RiRi's 21-year-old cousin, Tavon Kaiseen Alley, was killed in a shooting in Barbados on Boxing Day 2017.

▲Eric Clapton tragically lost his four-year-old son when he accidentally fell out of a skyscraper's window. His famous song 'Tears in Heaven' is about the tragic death of his son.

▲The Backstreet Boys member's sister, Leslie Carter, died in 2012 of an overdose of prescription drugs. She was 25.

▲In 2009, the veteran actress also lost a loved one tragically. Her daughter, Natasha Richardson, died in a skiing accident in Canada.

▲The former boxing champion's daughter tragically died in 2009, in an accident involving a treadmill. Reportedly, the four-year-old girl's neck became tangled in a cord.

▲In 2012, the actor's son, Sage Stallone, died from a heart attack aged 36.

▲The Hollywood star also lost his son tragically. Travolta's 16-year-old son died after suffering a seizure during a family vacation in 2009.

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The actress lost her boyfriend and 'Glee' co-star Cory Monteith in 2013. He tragically died of a heroin overdose, aged 31.

▲The actor has been haunted by tragic deaths. In 1999, his girlfriend gave birth to a stillborn baby. Reeves was still grieving his daughter's death, when in 2001 his girlfriend tragically died in a car crash.

▲In 1996, the late artist lost his son, Boy Gregory, who died just one week after his birth.

▲Joaquin's brother, actor River Phoenix, tragically died of an overdose when he was 23. Joaquin Phoenix was at the scene and he was the one who called 911.

▲The Man in Black's older brother, Jack, died after suffering an accident with a table saw. Cash, who was 12, witnessed the accident, and his brother's death days afterwards.

▲The comedian's older brother died when he fell off a cliff during a hiking trip. She was just nine years old at the time.

▲The Former Vice President of the United States lost both his wife and his baby daughter in a car crash.

▲In 1997 the princes lost their mother, Princess Diana. She was killed in a car crash in Paris.

▲In 1979, his daughter accidentally drowned in the family home's swimming pool. She would've turned two years old in less than a month after the accident.

▲The late singer's wife died in a motorcycle crash in 1966, and just two years later, his two oldest sons died in a house fire.

▲One year after she married her third husband, Mike Todd, he was killed in a plane crash.

▲She was next to her husband, John F. Kennedy, when he was assassinated in Texas in 1963.

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Death is always a sensitive topic, but it's nonetheless the final destination of all living beings on our planet. Although never easy to deal with, death of a loved one can be even more painful when it's unexpected and happens as a result of a tragic event. The thought of losing someone way too soon sends chills down our spines, but the reality is that this happens sometimes, and many people do go through very painful episodes throughout their lives.

It's easy to assume that celebrities lead perfect, privileged lives, but that doesn't protect them from life's trials and tribulations. Some of the world's most famous faces have tragically lost loved ones. From victims of violence and crime, to terrible accidents, these stars had to deal with the death of family members under terrible circumstances.

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▲The tennis legend's half-sister and personal assistant Yetunde Price was killed in a 2003 drive-by shooting in Compton, near Los Angeles.