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A wrongful death lawsuit was filed today in Ventura County Court on behalf of the four-year-old son of drowning victim Naya Rivera, claiming the county failed to adequately warn swimmers of the dangers at Lake Piru. The suit comes four months after the July 8 death of the Glee actress, who was swimming in Ventura…

Glee actress Naya Rivera raised her arm and called for help before she drowned in the waters of California’s Lake Piru, according to an autopsy report released Friday. Rivera drowned in July while boating with her 4-year-old son. She was swimming in the lake with him, but then put him back in the boat they had rented…

Amber Riley paid a tribute to her friend and former Glee co-star Naya Rivera with a moving performance on Thursday's Jimmy Kimmel Live! She sang the ballad “A Moment” as images of Rivera were projected behind her. Rivera died in July in a drowning accident at California's Lake Piru in July at age 33. Riley mourned the…

Jane Lynch fondly remembered her former Glee co-star Naya Rivera today as “a force” whose talent was under-recognized. Lynch spoke about Rivera during the 4th hour of the Today show on Wednesday, speaking with Jenna Bush Hager. The 33-year-old Rivera died last month from drowning in a California lake. “She was a force…

Glee actress Heather Morris posted an emotional tribute to her late co-star Naya Rivera yesterday, fighting tears as she reached out to fans of the onscreen couple. “I've been feeling this, like, aching in my heart to connect with my fans, to connect with everybody who's been feeling a little lost, a little confused…

EXCLUSIVE: In what is believed to be her final TV appearance, Naya Rivera will be featured in an episode from Season 3 of Netflix’s baking competition reality series Sugar Rush, which will be released Friday. Back in February, a few weeks before all production ground to a halt, the Glee alumna filmed a guest-judge…

Actor Ryan Dorsey expressed grief over ex-wife Naya Rivera’s death Saturday evening on social media. Dorsey took to Instagram to memorialize his late partner’s life. They had one son together, Josey Hollis, who was with Rivera the day of her disappearance. “This is so unfair… There’s not enough words to express the…

Four days after Naya Rivera’s body was found in Lake Piru, her family, friends and fans are still reeling from the sudden loss. When Rivera took the fateful July 8 boat trip with her young son, she was preparing to go into production on Starz’s Step Up, a new, reimagined installment of the series inspired by the…

Heather Morris, who co-starred with Naya Rivera on Fox’s Glee, posted a remembrance of her friend Wednesday. It came two days after Rivera’s body was found following an intensive five-day search at Lake Piru, where Rivera drowned while swimming with her 4-year-old son. “You are and always will be the strongest and…

On the fateful July 13, Naya Rivera’s family’s worst nightmare came true. After five agonizing days of a search operation at Lake Piru, the body of the former Glee actress was recovered. Rivera, a daughter, mother and sister, was 33. The gut-wrenching photos of Rivera’s parents and brother at the lake last week showed…

The cause of Naya Rivera’s death is an accidental drowning, the Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office has found. In the report released Tuesday, the office confirmed the body found yesterday in Lake Piru near Los Angeles is that of the Glee and Step Up: High Water actress. The identification was made by dental…

A former child actor, Naya Rivera got her break on Fox’s 2009 high school music dramedy series Glee. Her character, Santana Lopez, started as a stereotypical queen bee mean girl, with Rivera guiding her into becoming a multi-dimensional fan favorite. A day after Rivera’s body was found in a lake north of Los Angeles…