Bethenny Frankel’s interior designer has been found dead inside her Upper East Side apartment, more than a week after she was last seen alive.
The body of 49-year-old Brooke Gomez was discovered in what has been described as an advanced state of decomposition around 8 p.m. Sunday in her apartment near East 94th Street and Madison Avenue, as DailyMail.com first reported.
Gomez’s death has not been deemed suspicious by the police, sources familiar with the case told The Post.
The New York City Medical Examiner’s Office was investigating. As of Wednesday, Gomez’s cause of death has not been released.
Her final Instagram post, dated Oct. 23, featured a poignant quote that read: “There’s a future version of you that is so proud you didn’t give up.”
Gomez had worked for 18 years for Gomez Associates, the interior design firm founded by her mother, Mariette Himes Gomez, before she launched her own business, Brooke Gomez Design, in 2019.
Gomez was best known for taking part in Bravo TV’s second season of “Bethenny Ever After” in 2013 when she revamped Frankel’s $5 million Tribeca loft.
Frankel has not publicly commented on her designer’s tragic death.
Gomez had recently completed design projects for A-listers Michael J. Fox and Sigourney Weaver, according to her company’s website.
Born in New York City to an architect father and an interior designer mom, Gomez grew up “in a series of work-in-progress construction sites,” her online biography stated.
Her father even built her dollhouse modeled after the brownstone she grew up in.
Gomez attended an unnamed private school and later earned a degree in political science from the prestigious Brown University, but ultimately she decided to follow in her mom’s footsteps and joined her interior design firm in 2001.
“Interior design is very creative and very cerebral,” Gomez was quoted as saying. “And that’s the juxtaposition I was looking for.”
Gomez’s designs were featured in apartments and homes in the Big Apple, Connecticut, the Hamptons, Palm Beach, and Turks and Caicos.
