Celebrity interior designer Brooke Gomez’s beloved dog survived alone in her apartment with her owner’s remains for more than a week.
Gomez, 49, designer for reality TV star Bethenny Frankel, was found dead Sunday evening in an “advanced state of decomposition” in her apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Her Brussels Griffon, Edie, was still living inside.
The dog had apparently survived by feeding on her owner’s body, sources told DailyMail.com
The Medical Examiner’s Office has revealed that the cause of death was ‘chronic alcohol consumption’.
A close friend of Gomez told DailyMail.com that the dog is healthy and will remain in the building and be adopted by the chief inspector’s wife.
“The dog is fine,” the friend said. “The superstar’s wife adopts her. Everyone thought that we should keep the dog’s environment as normal as possible, that this was the right choice.’
DailyMail.com can reveal Brooke Gomez’s dog Edie survived a week in $1.3 million Manhattan apartment
The body of interior designer Brooke Gomez, 49, was discovered Sunday evening in her Upper East Side apartment
The dog had apparently survived by feeding on her owner’s body, sources told DailyMail.com. A close friend of Gomez told DailyMail.com that the dog is healthy and will remain in the building and be adopted by the superintendent’s wife.
Gomez celebrated her fluffy brown companion on social media, posting photos and videos of her playing with the dog in her apartment and strolling around the neighborhood.
A video from last Thanksgiving shows Edie wagging her tail at a “dance party” while Leon Bridges’ Smooth Sailin’ plays on the radio.
“Edie and I just wanted to say thank you,” Gomez said.
In August, Edie is seen on a couch ‘wishing’ followers a happy National Dog Day. The message is signed ‘love Edie. PS I tore up this pillow. Sorry, sorry.’
Gomez, 49, collaborated with reality TV star Bethenny Frankel to design her home
Another post from May 2022 showed the dog on a mattress as Gomez laughed: “I’m sorry Edie, are you taking a nap after your brunch with egg in your face? Are you taking a siesta after you kill all your toys?’
There’s a photo of Edie dressed in a sombrero and poncho for Cinco de Mayo, and a video of them walking together near her apartment along Museum Mile on Fifth Avenue, while Edie wears a pink collar — Edie’s favorite color Gomez.
It took more than a week for anyone to report Gomez missing, sources said.
A friend finally asked the building superintendent late Sunday to check her apartment on Madison Avenue at 94th Street in Carnegie Hill, sources told DailyMail.com.
The super came in and made the gruesome discovery. The body was found in an “advanced state of decomposition,” sources told DailyMail.com, and the dog was still alive.
Police and an ambulance responded to the 911 call. There were no signs of crime or foul play, sources told DailyMail.com.
Her company Brooke Gomez Design posted on Instagram: “We are deeply saddened by the sudden passing of our friend, Brooke Gomez, a light that shone brightly on all who knew her. A gathering of friends is planned to celebrate her life. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.”
Gomez appeared with her mother, noted decorator Mariette Himes Gomez (right), on Bravo’s second season of ‘Bethenny Ever After’ in 2013
During their appearance on the show, the mother-daughter duo renovated Bethenny Frankel’s $5 million NYC penthouse
The 49-year-old worked with her mother for almost two decades before founding Brooke Gomez Design in 2019
The designer’s body was found in an ‘advanced state of decomposition’ in her $1.3 million apartment after she had not been heard from for more than 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, turning the 3,000-square-foot, three-bedroom, three-bathroom loft into her dream place.
Gomez has also done projects for Michael J. Fox and Sigourney Weaver, according to her company website.
She showcased some of her projects on social media, while also sharing some of her favorite quotes.
Her last Instagram post 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 posted comments from British author Roald Dahl in which he said, “I think kindness is probably my most important quality in a human being.
“I will put it before anything like courage, bravery, generosity or anything else…Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, in my opinion. If you’re nice, that’s it.’
Gomez initially planned to become a lawyer, but ultimately decided to follow in the footsteps of her mother, renowned decorator Mariette Himes Gomez, according to a 2019 interview with Business of Home, an interior design publication.
“I really loved it,” she said. ‘I liked the contrast between right brain and left brain: drawing up a contract and then doing something creative.’
Gomez celebrated her fluffy brown companion on social media, posting photos and videos of her playing with the dog in her apartment and strolling around the neighborhood
Gomez designed homes across the United States, including townhouses and apartments in New York and beach houses in the Hamptons
According to her business biography, Gomez was born in the city to an architect father and interior designer.
She grew up on a series of construction sites with ‘unparalleled design’. Her father even built her a dollhouse, modeled after the brownstone 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 several projects and also producing her mother’s first book.
She designed apartments and townhouses in New York, as well as homes in Connecticut, Chicago, Washington, DC, Pennsylvania and Maryland, and beach houses in the Hamptons, Palm Beach and Turks and Caicos Islands.
She worked with her mother for almost twenty years before starting her own with Brooke Gomez Design in 2019.
“My mother worked hard all her life,” Gomez told Business of Home at the time.
She started this company a year after I was born and grew it tremendously, but the company has changed so much.
‘I think for both of us it was time for the next phase of our lives, and for her – as someone who has invested her time, energy and talent in this for over forty years – it was time for her to explore other ways. explore. interests.’
Gomez added: “For me 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 sweet, talented mother is always just a phone call away.