Jenji Kohan's Son Dies at the Age of 20

Producer and creator Jenji Kohan, who is best known for the pathbreaking show, Orange Is The New Black on Netflix has lost her son, Charles 'Charlie' Noxon, as he passed away at the age of 20.

According to a report in The Hollywood Reporter, Noxon died in a skiing accident in Utah, police said on Thursday. Noxon was on an intermediate-level trail at Park City Mountain resort Tuesday afternoon when he died, according to the Summit County Sheriff's Office. It happened on a trip with family members including his father, writer-journalist Christopher Noxon, police said. Authorities have declined to say what caused the accident.

A native of Los Angeles, Charlie Noxon was a junior at Columbia University, studying philosophy, economics and Chinese, his family said in a statement released by police. “He was questioning, irreverent, curious and kind,” his parents wrote. “Charlie had a beautiful life of study and argument and travel and food and razzing and adventure and sweetness and most of all love. We cannot conceive of life without him.”

He is survived by his parents and siblings, Eliza and Oscar. Kohan and Christopher divorced in 2019 after 21 years of marriage. The latter is the brother of TV producer and writer Marti Noxon.

TMZ was the first to report the news that Noxon died following an accident in Park City. Noxon reportedly fell and was taken via helicopter to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.