Baviera died of pneumonia caused by the COVID-19 virus in the early morning of March 21, 2020 at San Lazaro Hospital, Manila, Philippines. She returned from Paris on March 12, where she was infected as a congressman. Wife of the late Villegas Baviera who died of heart attack in 2018, Baviera left after three surviving children, Vita Amalya (born 1985), Mara Yasmin (born 1986) and Jorge Vittorio (born 1991).