Reality TV star’s interior designer Bethenny Frankel was found dead in her apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, has learned.
The body of 49-year-old Brooke Gomez was found Sunday evening in an “advanced state of decomposition,” sources said. Sources said she had not been seen for over a week.
A friend asked the property manager to check on her $1.3 million apartment on Madison Avenue at 94th Street in Carnegie Hill, sources told .
After making the gruesome discovery, someone in the building called 911 shortly after 10 p.m., prompting police and an ambulance to respond.
An NYPD spokesman said there is currently no suspicion of a crime. The coroner reached by did not release an immediate cause of death.
The body of interior designer Brooke Gomez, 49, was discovered in her Upper East Side apartment Sunday evening
During their appearance on the show, the mother-daughter duo renovated Bethenny Frankel’s $5 million penthouse in New York
The designer’s body was found in an “advanced state of decomposition” after being missing for over a week
In 2013, Gomez competed on Bravo’s second season of “Bethenny Ever After” when she and her mother renovated Frankel’s $5 million penthouse in Tribeca, transforming the 3,400-square-foot, three-bedroom, three-bathroom loft into their dream apartment.
According to her company website, Gomez has also done projects for Michael J. Fox and Sigourney Weaver.
She showcased some of her projects on social media while also sharing some of her favorite quotes.
Her last Instagram post on Oct. 23 was a mural on the side of a building that read, “There is a future version of you who is so proud that you didn’t give up.”
Two days earlier, Gomez published an op-ed by British author Roald Dahl that said, “I think kindness is probably my most important quality in a person.”
“I put it before anything else like courage, bravery, generosity or anything else… Kindness – that simple word.” Being kind – that covers it all in my opinion. If you’re nice, that’s it.’
According to a 2019 interview with Business of Home, Gomez originally planned to become a lawyer, but ultimately decided to follow in the footsteps of her mother, renowned decorator Mariette Himes Gomez.
“I really loved it,” she said. “I liked the right- and left-brain contrast of creating a contract and then doing something creative.”
Gomez appeared on Bravo’s second season of “Bethenny Ever After” in 2013 with her mother, well-known decorator Mariette Himes Gomez (right).
Gomez designed residences throughout the United States, including townhouses and apartments in New York and beach houses in the Hamptons
Her last Instagram post showed a mural on the side of a building that read, “There is a future version of you who is so proud that you didn’t give up.”
The 49-year-old worked with her mother for almost two decades before founding Brooke Gomez Design in 2019
According to her company website, Gomez worked on projects for other celebrities including Michael J. Fox and Sigourney Weaver
According to her company bio, Gomez was born in the city to an architect father and an interior designer mother.
She grew up on a series of construction sites with “unprecedented design.” Her father even built her a dollhouse modeled after the sandstone house in which she grew up.
Gomez earned a degree in political science from Brown University, but later joined her mother’s company, collaborating with her on various projects and also producing her mother’s first book.
She designed apartments and townhouses in New York, residences in Connecticut, Chicago, Washington, DC, Pennsylvania and Maryland, and beach houses in the Hamptons, Palm Beach and Turks and Caicos.
She worked with her mother for almost two decades before setting up her own business, Brooke Gomez Design, in 2019.
“My mother worked hard her whole life,” Gomez told Business of Home at the time.
“She started this company the year after I was born and grew it tremendously, but the business has changed so much.”
“I think it was time for both of us to move on to the next phase of our lives, and for her – as someone who has invested all of her time, energy and talent into this phase for over 40 years – it was for it’s time to explore other interests.’
Gomez added: “For me right now it’s about building my own team, finding new people I want to work with and making this company my own.”
“And it’s nice to know that my lovely, talented mother is always just a phone call away.”