12/27/2025
Imani Dia Smith, a former Broadway child actress who starred in The Lion King, died at 25 after being found with stab wounds in a residence in Edison, New Jersey, on Dec. 21, authorities said. She was pronounced dead at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. Her boyfriend, Jordan D. Jackson-Small, 35, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and additional weapons-related offenses, according to prosecutors.
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