Anna Shay, 'Bling Empire' Star, Dead at 62
etonline.comAnna Shay, the cast member and breakout reality TV star, has died of a stroke, ET has confirmed. She was 62 years old. «It saddens our hearts to announce that Anna Shay, a loving mother, grandmother, charismatic star, and our brightest ray of sunshine, has passed away at the early age of 62 from a stroke,» her family said in a statement shared with ET.
They added, «Anna taught us many life lessons on how not to take life too seriously and to enjoy the finer things. Her impact on our lives will be forever missed but never forgotten.»Shay first rose to television fame on the Asian-centric docu-reality series,, which ran for three seasons on Netflix, from January 2021 to October 2022.
The series chronicled the extremely wealthy lives of Los Angeles-based Asian Americans and even led to a spinoff,, before the franchise was canceled.
Shay, who was of Japanese and Russian descent, was portrayed as the matriarch of the show's many young socialites, including Kevin Kreider, Kane Lim, Christine Chiu, Gabriel Chiu and Kelly Mi Li, among others.«This is such a huge shock.
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